Notes on The Sonnets

Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021 Longlisted for the Rathbones folio prize 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 phial...