Claire Gathercole 
Pilgrimage Poems 

We have all been on a journey through the horrors and limitations and isolations and quarantines of Covid recently, which have led us on a type of pilgrimage of endurance. You’ll find a poem here called Those Pandemic Words, many of which gained new meanings when we were daily exhorted to follow the rules. However, most of these poems try to find ways not only through our present problems, but also through all the difficulties life throws at us as we try to find a pathway through them that makes sense.