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‘Rosemary for remembrance’

Peter Rose reads the second instalment of ‘Editor’s Diary’
The ABR Podcast 24 March 2022

‘Rosemary for remembrance’

Peter Rose reads the second instalment of ‘Editor’s Diary’
The ABR Podcast 24 March 2022

Tracy K Smith


In this special episode of The ABR Podcast, Peter Rose reads the second and concluding instalment of his 2021 diary, taking us from July to December. These entries continue his chronicle of life under rolling lockdowns – not only for himself, but also for his mother, Elsie, who had moved into aged care earlier that year because of her declining health. Against the arrhythmic schedule of closures and prohibitions, faint tracings of the pre-pandemical world appear: birthday celebrations, an English batting collapse, email trouble, a high five. Written under a cloud of personal and collective uncertainty, these diaries record a son’s observance of his mother’s last days. Elsie Rose died at the age of ninety-five on 15 March 2022.

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