After the Applause: Redux

In March 2020 Andrew, who is a nurse was redeployed to his hospitals ICU, the frontline against the Covid 19 pandemic. Three and half months later, both physically and mentally exhausted he struggled to start processing what he had experienced, the isolation, the fear and death. Death on a scale he had never experienced before, on a scale no-one had. From this process came a series of poems, written to release inner feelings and to tell the world the hidden price paid by those working on that so called "frontline". This book is a second edition of After the Applause: Pandemic poetry of a frontline nurse, expanded to include new poetry relating to healthcare and illness. The book also contains some poems from other healthcare workers, published and included with their permission. Read what happened after the door step clapping finished, read what happened after the applause, read Redux....