Not the Sonnets

<p class=ql-align-justify>Imagine tackling the entirety of Shakespeare's sonnet cannon with the aim of creating a contemporary and modern interpretation of the poems both in terms of subject and form.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Imagine starting where most poets end - with the rhyme - and beginning each new poem by stripping out every single word from each of the Sonnets except the last one on each line.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Imagine that in tackling the pieces completely the other way around the primary question became 'what subject will fit a poem whose lines end with these exact words?'</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Imagine a collection entitled <em>not the Sonnets</em> one which has borrowed its scaffolding from the Bard to produce a sonnet sequence which is something else entirely...</p><p><br></p>