Notes on the Sonnets Charles Baudelaire and sexuality as a nexus

and sexuality as a nexus

allowing readers to discover the intricacy of poems that some have dismissed as simple

it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Faber

instigating the insurgency from her puppet theatre

one of Austria's most well-known poets

Notes on the Sonnets Charles Baudelaire and sexuality as a nexusLuke 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,