Nine Arches Press
Adventures in poetry
One Hundred Lockdown Sonnets
Jacqueline Saphra
Price £9.99
ISBN: 978-1-913437-31-2
Format: Paperback
Extent: 120 pp
POETRY
Cover artwork: Sophie Herxheimer
One Hundred Lockdown Sonnets by Jacqueline Saphra is a poetic journal that chronicles the personal and political upheavals and tragedies of the Coronavirus pandemic, this sequence of sonnets charts the dislocated, frightening and at times uplifting experience of one hundred days of lockdown. Written as a daily sonnet throughout the first lockdown, from 23rd March 2020, Saphra's candid and revealing sequence is a unique record of strange and unparalleled days.
Jacqueline Saphra reads sonnets 56, 65 and 93 from the One Hundred Lockdown Sonnets.
Filmed by Joe Warner @joewarnersnaps joewarnerphotography.com
Jacqueline Saphra is a poet, playwright and tutor based in London. All My Mad Mothers was shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot prize and was followed by Dad, Remember You are Dead in 2019, both from Nine Arches Press. A Bargain with the Light: Poems after Lee Miller (2017) and Veritas: Poems after Artemisia (2020) are both published by Hercules Editions.
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