Look At A Book: Our Paused World
Welcome to my hundredth blog post! Today, we’re going to be taking an in-depth look at Our Paused World, my short but sweet lockdown-inspired poetry collection. Unlike most of my books, this one is only available as a print edition – but the copies are relatively cheap on Amazon if you’d like to give it a go.
Our Paused World
The EssentialsLockdown-inspired poetry.
Genre: Contemporary Poetry
Age Range: Young Adult and above
Length: 74 pages
Themes: Hope, Nature, Lockdown, Memories, Animals
ExcerptTwo Crows Croak
Two crows croak,
over a red bottle cap,
hopping over roof tiles,
feathers flying like bullets.
A street away,
flocks of pigeons frolic
in blissful union,
on a crumb-filled lawn.
Beneath shady trees,
one brave mother duck
leads a youthful colony
of her playful young.
While, overhead,
a V-shaped battalion
honks at the world,
afraid of no one.
Our Paused World was an unintentional collection, in that I was just writing poetry to help me stay sane during lockdown and realised that I’d come up with enough poems for a collection. It’s also interesting in that it was the first book of mine that I illustrated myself, and I’m quite proud of the art that I created – you can check it out here. A lot of the poems from Our Paused World can be found for free on my AllPoetry page, which is here, and three of them – Rows, Two Crows Croak and Beyond The Window – were front page picks on that website, which was really cool. I’ve included a couple of the illustrations below!
Is It Right For You?Obviously, lockdown wasn’t the best time, so if you’re not interested in any sort of reminder of it, this might not be the collection for you. However, if you’d like to read some thoughtful, ‘slice-of-life’ sort of poetry in a nice little collection with some illustrations, then it’d definitely be worth checking out this one!
The hardcover is at a similar price to the paperback on UK Amazon right now too, in case that tickles your fancy!
Our Paused World can be purchased here, if you’d like to support me!
(You can also tip me on my Ko-Fi page if you’d like to help out more directly!)
