{"product_id":"9781908058812","title":"Notes on The Sonnets by Luke Kennard","description":"Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021Longlisted for the Rathbones folio prizeA 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\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313120162165,"sku":"9781908058812","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781908058812.jpg?v=1762825484","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781908058812","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}