Description
A collection of 154 sonnets reflecting on love, death, marriage and economic theory, each taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's 154. These poems have wit and a kick coming from a middle-aged woman in the middle of Scotland in the twenty-first century.
About the Author
Brought up in post-industrial Lanarkshire, Petra Reid studied Law at Edinburgh University and worked as a solicitor in general practice, and more recently as a welfare rights adviser. She studied Fine Art while raising a family and developed her interest in poetry through Dada. She has wandered the east coast of Scotland with a west coast accent for forty years. This is her only qualification for feeding other authors' works through the mincer of Scots, or at least her version of what may, after all, be a dialect without army or navy.
Reviews
"...every poem in the book is a response to each one of Shakespeare's sonnets, all 154 of them. Each of Reid's sonnets follows Shakespeare's original in metre, line endings and rhyme but the sonnets' subject matter is bang up to date..." - Financial Times
Book Information
ISBN 9781910895139
Author Petra Reid
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Scotland Street Press
Publisher Scotland Street Press
Weight(grams) 188g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 135mm * 10mm
