PRESENT CONTINUOUS is a collection of hybrid essays, written during the recent covid pandemic, moving between criticism and poetic prose, between visual and textual expressions of the present moment and a future that still has a past to resolve. From the initial announcement of the lockdown to Black Lives Matter protests to a "second wave" of restrictions and the issue of police violence, Grundy's writing offers, in the words of Richard Owens, "a quality, a shade of incredible intelligence and intuitive imagining that cannot be reproduced". "The world in art and poetry will begin with a world anew", commented the late musician and poet Henry Grimes. In these "expositions of harmony and theory, " David Grundy strives to imagine that new world. Poetry.