Thomas H. Ford is a Senior Lecturer of English at La Trobe University. He is the author of Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air (2018), which won the British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize, and most recently, How to Read a Poem: Seven steps (Routledge, 2021).
It was, inevitably, in a Zoom meeting that I first noticed the phrase. A colleague, excusing some minor oversight, explained it away with the words: ‘Sorry, Covid brain fog.’ Although I hadn’t consciously registered the expression before, I knew exactly what she meant.
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