Notes on The Sonnets - Couverture souple

Kennard, Luke

 
9781908058812: Notes on The Sonnets
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1908058811 ISBN 13 : 9781908058812
Editeur : Penned in the Margins, 2021

Synopsis

'Winner of The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021
A Poetry Book Society Recommendation


Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party.

A 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.

Wry, 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.

'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.'- Caroline Bird

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À propos de l?auteur

<b>Luke Kennard</b> has published five collections of poetry. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2005 and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2007. He lectures at the University of Birmingham. In 2014 he was selected by the Poetry Book Society as one of the Next Generation Poets. His debut novel, <i>The Transition</i>, was published in 2017 by Fourth Estate.

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Éditeur
Penned in the Margins
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1908058811
ISBN 13 
9781908058812
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
212
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