The Sonneteer

""Why poetry you ask? A question fair to pose! This liberating form distracts my inner critic’s dark censorious stare.""

- Will, narrator of The Sonneteer, Form is Liberating

The Sonneteer by T.J. Radcliffe is a narrative poem told in the form of a series of daily sonnets sent as e-mails from Will to Adelia, both graduate students at a Canadian university. It consists of 195 Shakespearean sonnets, written between Midsummer's Day 2009 and the Spring equinox 2010.


 * Author Tract: a number of the poems reflect the author's own concerns regarding the issues of the day, and are only peripherally linked to the narrative.
 * Does Not Like Men
 * Love At First Sight
 * Love Makes You Crazy
 * The Power of Love
 * Woman Scorned: Not entirely intentionally