Pandemic Poems: First Wave (self-published), the latest book by esteemed Jamaican writer Olive Senior, collects a sequence of new poems composed in 2020, and originally posted on social media. “Each poem is a riff on a word or phrase trending in the first wave of the pandemic — an A to Z of the lexicon newly coined or quickly repurposed for our historic moment,” and offering a unique personal and collective history of a year that unfolded through a series of grim and unanticipated events.