Notes on the Sonnets Simones en Dianina ' Tom Lanoye

' Tom Lanoye

and diasporic Black and brown people

and filmmaker

the author of several impossible to obtain chapbooks

Christina Atik

Notes on the Sonnets Simones en Dianina ' Tom LanoyeLuke 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,