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The impact of the Covid pandemic has impacted on all our lives. The new poems in this volume constitute a challenging set of reflections and provide an interesting contrast with some of the poems the author published before Covid. Henry Disney is a scientist of distinction. His ten previously published collections of poems have attracted a wide readership.

Produktbeschreibung
The impact of the Covid pandemic has impacted on all our lives. The new poems in this volume constitute a challenging set of reflections and provide an interesting contrast with some of the poems the author published before Covid. Henry Disney is a scientist of distinction. His ten previously published collections of poems have attracted a wide readership.
Autorenporträt
Henry Disney was born in Dorset. From the age of 3-7, the War resulted in him and his two sisters being separated from their parents, who were stuck in the Sudan. On leaving school in 1957, he did his National Service in the Royal Artillery, becoming a bombardier on active service in Cyprus before becoming a subaltern on Salisbury Plain. He read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University. He was then Assistant Warden of the Flatford Mill Field Centre in Suffolk, mainly teaching field zoology. On marrying the Centre's secretary, Audrey, they were obliged to leave for a lack of married accommodation. He worked as a Medical Entomologist in Belize and studied at the Department of Education, Bristol University. Worked as an entomologist at the Helminthiasis Research Unit in Cameroon. He was a Field Studies Council Research Fellow at the University Department of Zoology, Cambridge, and is currently a Senior Research Associate at the University Department of Zoology, Cambridge.