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The COVID Poet - 101 Weeks of COVID Poems

Andrew A Gater

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The COVID Poet - 101 Weeks of COVID Poems

Andrew A Gater

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    Catching COVID-19 on March 17, 2020, was a life changer for me. It was a terrifying experience, and it was the big unknown.
    On day seven of the illness, I was afraid to go to bed for fear of not waking up. By the morning of day ten, lucky to be alive (asthma, fatigue and tinnitus the only side effects) and a stone lighter, I found myself in a national lockdown as Coronavirus infected the UK and spread across the world.
    Shaken by unfolding events, I started writing poetry.
    Initially, it was just one poem, not thinking it would become an obsession.
    It did. Developing into a weekend ritual that had me putting into words my horror and humour.
    Words became verses. Verses became a poetic anthology of a modern-day pandemic that held us hostage, and the decisions and rules made by those in power that we lived and died by.
    Some of these writings will make you laugh.
    Some will make you cry.
    Each poem reflects history as it was made.

    ISBN : 978-1-83543-408-6

    Published: 10/07/2025

    Pages : 112

    Size : 205x140

    Imprint : Olympia Publishers

    Andrew A Gater

    Andrew Gater is fifty-nine and lives in Ashton-under-Lyne
    with his wife, Mandy. Between them, they have three grownup
    sons and three grandchildren. They are keen walkers and
    gardeners (something that Covid facilitated in ever larger
    amounts). Andrew was born in New Zealand in 1965 and
    adopted by his English parents, Peter and Evelyn, who had
    emigrated in 1963. Andrew was brought up in Batley,
    Yorkshire, and has worked in the food industry for forty
    years. Andrew has always written poetry but not as frequently
    as he did in Covid times, when the time was very much
    available.

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