He asks some pertinent questions about the effect of what we write when it hits individual readers. He says:
I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think it was Sheppard's original intention to give me work about love that didn't upset me. I might be wrong, but I think he just wanted to write good poetry. Well, he's done both, just in case you wanted to know, and I think it's a welcome change.
Petrarch 3 is still available (see pinned post to the right of this one) and I write about my ongoing sonnets here.
See here
and here
and here
and here for more on my Petrarch
obsession/project, including how to purchase it from Crater press.Read the 'original' translation (if you see what I mean) and the doggie version here. One respondee to Martin's blog post said she'd like to read the 'dog' sonnet. There it is: woof!
Thanks Martin.
