Paula Meehan made her first appearance since being added to the list of prescribed poets and the unseen poem was by Victoria Kennefick, a native of Shanagarry, Co Cork, now living in Kerry

A defining characteristic of crisis is uncertainty. Crisis can mean not knowing what might or could happen next and this, naturally, intensifies frustration and generates stress, occasionally panic. Heightened tension at a time of war, natural disaster, famine, economic implosion, or like today, during a pandemic is inevitable.