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.
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Dear Oskar
No, I didn’t just address a blog post to myself – instead, I wrote a letter-poem to myself! This piece is themed around my lockdown experience, with highs and lows of how life has been. It came runner-up in the Telegraph’s Teen Writing Competition and I’m really proud of it.
Thoughtless
To be clear, this poem is not an attack on my classmates (and not-exactly-classmates, as I’ll discuss) or the bus driver who diligently gets us to college and back in the mornings and evenings. Instead, it is a discussion of the many failings which occur when you force two year groups from two colleges (four year groups in total) onto one bus during lockdown and COVID restrictions. Think of it more as an expression of emotion, rather than a formal letter of complaint – and enjoy!
Oskar Leonard 