Tom Retchford, poet-in-residence at Falmouth Art Gallery, has been writing a collection of poems since mid-March that relate to the current events that we are experiencing because of coronavirus.

It is called Coronology, a play on words of 'chronology', as the poems are in order of the events that have been happening.

Tom explains: "This collection I have written is a way of helping people understand the impact that this disease has had on all of us.

"Because there is no doubt whatsoever this virus has affected every single person in the United Kingdom, amongst so many others around the globe.

"This is not centred to one person such as the reader, but to everyone and everything that is going on. I write for the art gallery and write poems every day about so much stuff.

"My dream is to be a published poet and to get this collection made into a book for people to keep and look back on, allowing them to remember, when we are all through this.

"What it was like not just for them, but for all of us.

"I hope you enjoy them and please leave any comments on the website.

"I hope that all of you continue to stay safe and well, with best wishes."

The latest poem in the series, entitled Too Many Lost, is below.

It's easy amongst all of us trying our very best

To slow and stop the spread of the virus from north to south, east to west

Putting all our true qualities and skills into test

Lock-downs and safe measures

Stopping work and shutting down schools and places of leisure

All precautions, we've our lives and others to treasure

But when we get through this, impossible as it seems at present

The effect it will have on all of us, the aftermath in ascertainment

Will be a long recovery process from this terrible event

Historical

Many lost

So many poor lives lost

And at this moment, the NHS are doing all they can

Trying to get as many staff members as possible, every available woman and man

And now more than ever, they are immensely overran

Sticking together

Pulling together

Helping each other

All those poor people who have lost their lives

Mothers, fathers to husbands and wives

The list is too long to study and revise

We are up in arms with the new rules and restrictions

Adapting our whole lives to this exceptional situation

With even the prime minister, having to make very regretful decisions

But it's all for them, all for them we must understand

No more lives should be lost, we can't let this illness have the upper hand

Spreading and infecting as well as killing so many across the whole of England

All the UK and the world

Into this pandemic has been hurled

Since this thing was unfurled

It doesn't matter about economics and business

Nor about work, money or politics

When so many lives have been lost and left grieved ones in distress

Gone

Forlorn

Solemn

When the rest of the country will be getting back on its feet

When eventually the Coronavirus does retreat

Business owners mourning over lost profits and sales with reciepts

People will be busy as well

Choosing the coffin, the ceremony

Sorting out wills and getting funerals ready

Funeral parlours and homes are busy

As if this isn't bad enough already

And when things do grow steady

Don't think of the loss of businesses and stuff like that I mean really?

Postponement of sporting events such as Olympics and Euro2020

When so many have been lost, those we love dearly

After-all, these things can happen and be done again

But for the victims of the virus, their lives weren't put in postponement like the Olympics, for them it was a permanent cancellation