[Mark McDonnell]

Hi folks,

I have a poem in a new anthology, Poems For The Year 2020: Eighty Poets On The Pandemic, edited by Merryn Williams. Annie Drysdale is in here too! The poem appeared on the Sphere in the spring of last year (it's about walking along a canal), so thanks to anyone who helped knock it into shape.

https://www.waterstones.com/book/poe.../9781912524907

I haven't received my contributors copies yet (I get 2 for a fiver!) but I know there was a bit of chat here recently about the middle-class smugness of some of the recent deluge of lockdown poems. I kept shtum, knowing this was in the offing. I'm sure Merryn, staunchly left-wing and editor of Poems for Jeremy Corbyn (along with much else), will have chosen poems that go beyond general ennui and complaints about having finished everything on Netflix.

Cheers!