Notes on the Sonnets Gold

Notes on the Sonnets GoldLuke Kennard 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,

sweeping the detritus of nature

In these interviews conducted by journalist Laure Adler

it “is a love story: between me and Keats

grappling with his heritage

shows Hilst the poet at her distilled best

challenging given truths to forge a meaningful communication

Pierre Mac Orlan

tracing her movements through a variety of communities and economies in New York

Vertaald en van nawoord voorzien door Jan Mysjkin

the imaginary master of the “heteronym” coterie created by the Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa

sadé mucks up orthography to investigate disorienting practices of refusal and wade through the fundamental feltness and unintelligibility of thingness

queer lyric mobilises all aspects of language to reveal contradictions of capitalism and defuse populist rhetoric