Peter Oswald's verse plays have been performed at Shakespeare's Globe, where he was Writer in Residence, at the National Theatre, and around the world. The magazine City Limits said of the poetry in his plays: Beautiful poetry, fearlessly experimental, endlessly inventive and frequently inspired. This is the first volume of his shorter, lyric poems.
Peter Oswald's verse plays have been performed at Shakespeare's Globe, where he was Writer in Residence, at the National Theatre, and around the world...
In a letter, Hopkins wrote that the English sonnet is too short, because Italian vowels are longer than English vowels, and the Italian is the original and perfect sonnet. So in this collection you will find one extended sonnet - Les Murray wrote that an example of 'sprawl' (which is something he approves of) is a sonnet in its twenty-first line. You will also find some sonnets from the Italian of Dante, crammed into tight English vowels. Some sonnets that don't rhyme. Some in the rhyming-couplet form of John Clare. And some poems of fourteen lines which are probably not sonnets at...
In a letter, Hopkins wrote that the English sonnet is too short, because Italian vowels are longer than English vowels, and the Italian is the orig...
