Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard
PBS Recommendation Summer 2021 Candlestick Press human and more

human and more

John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 35 years with his mischievous

Jorge de Sena

and what we are compelled by

becoming too comfortable too quickly

Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard <br> <b> PBS Recommendation Summer 2021</b> Candlestick Press human and morePBS Recommendation Summer 2021 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