Notes on the Sonnets
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Word Count
53,000 words, Guess
Page Count
212 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL34769586M
- ISBN-139781908058812
- OCLC Control Number1201656372
Classifications
- LCCPR6111.E535
Description
Winner of The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021.00Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party.0A physicist explains dark matter in the kitchen. A crying man is consoled by a Sigmund Freud action figure. An out-of-hours doctor sells phials of dark red liquid from a briefcase. Someone takes out a guitar.0Wry, insolent and self-eviscerating, Notes on the Sonnets riddles the Bard with the anxieties of the modern age, bringing Kennard's affectionate critique to subjects as various as love, marriage, God, metaphysics and a sad horse.0'Luke Kennard has the uncanny genius of being able to stick a knife in your heart with such originality and verve that you start thinking "aren't knives fascinating... and hearts, my god!" whilst everything slowly goes black.'0- Caroline Bird0A Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
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