City Sonnets

<p><strong><em>City Sonnets</em></strong> presents a poet's view of modern city life in all its variety. Thirty-six sonnets written in traditional form explore the dark and the light the rich and the poor the ugly and the beautiful. There are poems about a beggar cathedrals van drivers and concert halls cats and rats and many other topics. Each one has a colour illustration that complements the vivid evocation of urban existence in the verse. The writing explores what it means to be a human being living among many others with all the tensions anxieties pleasures and joys that they experience. The sonnet form with its fourteen lines regular metre and rhyming scheme brings a sharp focus on the practicalities and dreams of city living.</p>