Retirement in Lockdown
All those years I wore my mask. My work mask. All those years I was locked down. Confined, controlled. Through all those birthdays I washed […]
Articles by Jenny Knight
Never Alone
I am watching the news. Then the One Show is on. I live on my own. Find out what’s going on. They tell me it […]
Always There
I was asked to write this poem for a local hospice. It was read by a professional actress at their annual remembrance service, held just […]
Virtual Purgatory
2020 – the year of the virtual team meeting. This has been published in Viral Verses – a collection of wonderfully illustrated poems written by […]
Corporate Georgie
I watched my lovely 3 year old granddaughter playing ‘offices’ by the swimming pool while we were on holiday in France some 14 years ago, […]
Ode to Nigella
Ode to Nigella. It is cold in this room There’s a bad a smell of mould It’s the best I can get Nothing for me, […]
An Academic Goes Shopping – Empirical Research or Indecision?
Research and reflection are everything in academia…… The overall aim is to purchase a coat A coat that’ll make in impact An original, significant […]
Ode to Covid 19
COVID 19 please tell us why are you so mean? You’re doing your damage without being seen We’re hiding indoors while you rampage around You […]