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Poetry Series
Surveillance
In this second series of poems commissioned by Hannah Lowe, WritersMosaic’s poetry editor, six poets explore the theme of surveillance – from the watchful eye of the state to the technologies that track our everyday lives, and from the scrutiny of others to the ways we monitor ourselves.
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Surveillance
In this second series of poems commissioned by Hannah Lowe, WritersMosaic’s poetry editor, six poets explore the theme of surveillance – from the watchful eye of the state to the technologies that track our everyday lives, and from the scrutiny of others to the ways we monitor ourselves. At a time when surveillance is increasingly embedded in our daily lives, often in ways we don’t notice, these poems probe questions of power, privacy, visibility and control, and what it means to watch, to be watched, or to resist the gaze of others.
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In this second series of poems commissioned by Hannah Lowe, six poets explore the theme of surveillance.
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