I have some new poems in Molly Bloom, Aidan Semmens' fine online magazine. Here:
He has chosen some of the 'English Strain' sonnets, these ones from
NON-DISCLOSURE
AGREEMENT: Overdubs of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese. One begins, after its borrowed title from EBB's opening line,
YES, call me by my pet-name!
Pet! Petsy? Petronella? Petrarca! Where Petrarch dwells
there lies Poesy, as he makes for himself a self
in language, however embarrassing his cowpat lyricism,
since he – I – could not hope for imperial laurels....
Pet! Petsy? Petronella? Petrarca! Where Petrarch dwells
there lies Poesy, as he makes for himself a self
in language, however embarrassing his cowpat lyricism,
since he – I – could not hope for imperial laurels....
This sequence seems oddly pertinent at the moment, given the antics of a certain phallocrat just out of government.
Another 'English Strain', is currently published in Cumulus 2 at the same time (so far print only): that one is my version of a poem by the Earl of Surrey.
I write about the completed 100 sonnets of The English Strain here.
My recent contribution to Blackbox Manifold, that other excellent online journal, here
is from Hap:Understudies
of Thomas Wyatt’s Petrarch, so there is quite a range on show online now.
I write about my sonnets generally here,
and here
and see here
and here for more on my Petrarch
obsession, which set this thing off, including how to purchase Petrarch 3
from Crater press in its 'map' edition. The poem partly quoted above signals the return of Petrarch for the last few poems of the collection.
My sonnets from the 'English Strain' project Hap:Understudies of Thomas Wyatt’s Petrarch is now published;
see here: https://robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2018/10/robert-sheppard-hap-understudies-of.html
and is available from Knives Forks and Spoons here:
https://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/product-page/hap-understudies-of-thomas-wyatt-s-petrarch-by-robert-sheppard-26-pages
https://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/new-titles
Book One of ‘The English Strain’ project, The English Strain, is available from Shearsman Books here:
https://www.shearsman.com/store/Sheppard-Robert-c28271934?offset=6
Book
Two, Bad Idea is available from Knives Forks and Spoons, HERE: https://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/product-page/bad-idea-by-robert-sheppard-102-pages
http://robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2018/03/peter-riley-on-my-petrarch-3-and-other.html
Also in this issue of Molly Bloom, Julia Webb, Sarah James, Gerry Loose, Maria Stadnicka, Jonathan Catherall, Rhea Seren Phillips, Mark Goodwin, Zohar Atkins, Steve Spence, Iain Britton, Melissa Buckheit and Hazel Smith.
