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Notes on The Sonnets
A collection of Poetry by Luke Kennard
Subgenres:
- Prose Poetry,
- Single Setting,
- Humor
This book is for you if you're into...
- Shakespeare reimagined as surreal house party prose poems
- Absurdist humor with existential dread and modern anxieties
- Unexpected cameos like Freud action figures and sad horses
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 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.
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