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09-04-2021
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Penned in the Margins
Auteur(s)
Luke Kennard
Notes on The Sonnets
Luke Kennard
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Poetry
Book
society
RecommendationLuke
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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