Love in the time of Lockdown

As today is Valentines day, I thought I would celebrate love in lockdown by reminding myself of my all-time favourite romantic songs, art, films, novels, poems. Hard to narrow down to the top three of each but here goes…

Songs: I Wanna Be Your Lover by Prince, Sweet Love by Anita Baker, How Can I Be Sure by David Cassidy.

Art: The Lovers by Rene Magritte, Love by Robert Indiana, Love by Smita Urunkar.

Films: Call Me By Your Name (2017), Lovers Rock (2020), Casablanca (1942)

Novels: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence, Normal People by Sally Rooney

Poetry: Fragment 31 by Sappho, Recreation by Audre Lorde, The Ecstasy by John Donne

But there are so many more…

Pictured above: detail from The Lovers by Rene Magritte, Love by Robert Indiana, still from Lovers Rock by Steve McQueen and Love by Smita Urunkar