Aidan Baker worked for 38 years at the Haddon Library in Cambridge, England. His poems have appeared in Acumen, Sledgehammer, RIC, Orbis, projects from 26 Characters, and numerous other outlets both printed and online. He blogs his published poems at https://blurtmetry.blogspot.com. All the submitted poems were written while he was following Jo Bell's online workshop 'Try to praise the mutilated world' during the UK's second Covid lockdown in November 2020. Aidan is a member of the editorial team of the citizen journalism projectEast Anglia bylines.