Professor Tina Beattie

This year's Noble Prize for literature has been awarded to US poet Louise Gluck, I never heard of her before, but I spent last few days dipping into her poetry, and beginning to get a feel for her style, evocative, and unsettling, at times, terrifying, with some illusive presence whispering just beyond the reach of language.

As we gradually emerge from lockdown, we have little idea of what the new normal might be. But whatever the future brings, the last three months has brought us face to face ourselves in sometimes challenging ways. For people like me, who have so far not fall ill with Covid-19, and who have spent lockdown in relative tranquility, there have being many opportunities for reflections and discovery.

This morning, British photographer and film director Steve Macqeen has unvealed a massive art project in the Typo gallery and Billboards across London. The project is titled Year 3 and it comprises photos of more than 76,000 children from London primary schools. They are standard school pictures, teachers sitting among rows of pupils. It's the contents rather than the style which celebrates diversity of children from all kinds of backgrounds. McQeen says his attention is to encourage children to creativity by engage them with art.