THE BLACK DEATH

I’ve sorted poems out to make a sequence but have never written one from scratch so in May I started the journey. I was reading about The Black Death in “The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England” by Ian Mortimer and it struck me how people were the same then as now. The main idea was to pick a current news item, write a poem about it and preface it with an item about the Black Death. Then I got distracted because I could also write a poem about what happened during the Black Death and preface that with a current news story. Or are they the same? Anyway, they all follow the same form – my (still unnamed) 3 line verse form in 4 stanzas. In August 50 poems later, I started to send them out. So for 4 magazines have rejected them, 2 have accepted and 8 are outstanding