On Shakespeare's Sonnets - A Poets' Celebration

Brings together thirty of the world's foremost contemporary poets writing in response to Shakespeare's Sonnets.
On Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration brings together thirty of the world's foremost contemporary poets writing in response to Shakespeare's Sonnets.

'These contributors are some of the best, and best-known poets writing today ... The result is a slimly elegant book of new poetry, some of it very fine indeed ... It really is extraordinary that these sonnets, first published in 1609, can still be engendering such a range of new ideas and ways of expressing them.' - The Independent

On Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration brings together thirty of the world's foremost contemporary poets writing in response to Shakespeare's Sonnets.

In the years since Shakespeare's death, the Sonnets have invited imitation, homage, critique, parody and pastiche. These poems probe our relationship to the Sonnets' intricate form and ambitious scope, their investigation of sexuality, wit, memory and poetic survival. These sonnets and longer lyrics explore what it means to write 'on Shakespeare's Sonnets' in the 21st century. This new paperback edition also includes an updated preface.

Published in association with the R oyal Society of Literature, contributing poets include: Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Paul Muldoon, Ruth Padel, Simon Armitage, Roger McGough, Wendy Cope, Jackie Kay, Mimi Khalvati, Imtiaz Dharker and Jo Shapcott, among many others.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
What poverty my Muse brings forth; Roger McGough
Sonnet 1
Senex on Market Street; Douglas Dunn
Sonnet 11
Thirty-Five; Jackie Kay
Sonnet 12
Rhapsodies; Andrew Motion
Sonnet 15
Sonnet 15: A Graft; Paul Muldoon
Sonnet 18
Dream; P. J. Kavanagh
Sonnet 20
Di-Di-Dah-Dah-Di-Dit; Simon Armitage
Sonnet 22
Sonnet; Wendy Cope
Sonnet 33
Hearing Voices; Mimi Khalvati
Sonnet 35
Peacemaker; Michael Symmons Roberts
Sonnet 36
Two; Don Patterson
Sonnet 38
After Sonnet 38; Nick Laird
Sonnet 43
The Trick; Imtiaz Dharker
Sonnet 49
At the Halle; Bernard O'Donoghue
Sonnet 55
The Sonnets; Michael Longley
Sonnet 60
Time's Fool; Kevin Crossley-Holland
Your Life as a Wave; Ruth Padel
Sonnet 65
Storm, Nissaki; Robin Robertson
Two Sonnets; Alan Brownjohn
Sonnet 71
Still Life; John Burnside
Sonnet 73
73 Shakespeare Close; David Harsent
2014/2015; Jo Shapcott
Sonnet 80
Salvage; Alan Jenkins
Sonnet 94
Three Views of a Secret; Sean O'Brien
Sonnet 99
Gentian Violet; Paul Farley
Sonnet 116
Magnetism; Gillian Clarke
CXVI; Carol Ann Duffy
Betrayal; Elaine Feinstein
Sonnet 143
Drowned Man; Fiona Sampson
W.S.: The Tithon Sonnets; John Fuller
List of Contributors and Notes to Poems
Index of Poets
Index of First Lines