Modern Shakespearean Sonnet 1. Writing (General) by Andrew Barker.
Andrew Barker's collection of original sonnets, "Joyce is Not Here: 101 Modern Shakespearean Sonnets," can be purchased, with a new cover, through Amazon at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Joyce-Not-Here-Shakespearean-Sonnets/dp/B091NLSHC3/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=andrew+Barker+modern+shakespearean+Sonnets&qid=1637282131&qsid=257-9044271-9050406&s=books&sr=1-3&sres=B09CG91YSS%2C1976583942%2CB091NLSHC3&srpt=ABIS_BOOKModern Shakespearean Sonnet 1. Writing. (General) -after Charles Bukowski- Of all the many different reasons for Clean paper, scored by moving, guided pen, Somewhere between Kerouac and Flaubert, Somewhere between Hemingway and Larkin, Somewhere between Dickens and Coetzee, Somewhere between Eliot and Orwell, Somewhere between Joanne and Vidia, Somewhere between Achebe and Zola; To paraphrase a quote by William Yeats, We find our inspiration where we might Into a structure try to forge our thoughts, From somewhere between Homer and tonight. A simple statement, trite perhaps, but true: Whatever helps you write is there to use. Andrew Barker. Why write? What do you want to write about? I’d heard someone read a Bukowski poem that contained the refrain, “If you write to . . . don’t.” I may have got that slightly wrong, but the poem was a series of reasons not to write. As if anyone needed a series of reasons not to write. This was one of those instances where I thought the information given was diametrically opposed to the way I saw the situation. I thought the poem could have benefited from the coda. “And after considering all those reasons not to do it, do it anyway.” The writers selected here should register as opposites in some way. Kerouac and Flaubert: The free-flowing writer to the obsessively precise. Hemingway and Larkin: The writer who goes into the world as opposed to the one who hides himself away. In Hull! Dickens and Coetzee: The expansive book, the sparse book. Eliot and Orwell: Right wing. Left wing. Joanne and Vidia: The magical and the real. Initials too. JK. VS. Achebe and Zola: The alphabet. Homer and tonight: From the first to the future. Ironically, for an introduction to a collection of Shakespearean sonnets this is the one in which iambic pentameter is least adhered to. There was little I could do about that. I wanted to use these names.
Andrew Barker's collection of original sonnets, "Joyce is Not Here: 101 Modern Shakespearean Sonnets," can be purchased, with a new cover, through Amazon at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Joyce-Not-Here-Shakespearean-Sonnets/dp/B091NLSHC3/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=andrew+Barker+modern+shakespearean+Sonnets&qid=1637282131&qsid=257-9044271-9050406&s=books&sr=1-3&sres=B09CG91YSS%2C1976583942%2CB091NLSHC3&srpt=ABIS_BOOKModern Shakespearean Sonnet 1. Writing. (General) -after Charles Bukowski- Of all the many different reasons for Clean paper, scored by moving, guided pen, Somewhere between Kerouac and Flaubert, Somewhere between Hemingway and Larkin, Somewhere between Dickens and Coetzee, Somewhere between Eliot and Orwell, Somewhere between Joanne and Vidia, Somewhere between Achebe and Zola; To paraphrase a quote by William Yeats, We find our inspiration where we might Into a structure try to forge our thoughts, From somewhere between Homer and tonight. A simple statement, trite perhaps, but true: Whatever helps you write is there to use. Andrew Barker. Why write? What do you want to write about? I’d heard someone read a Bukowski poem that contained the refrain, “If you write to . . . don’t.” I may have got that slightly wrong, but the poem was a series of reasons not to write. As if anyone needed a series of reasons not to write. This was one of those instances where I thought the information given was diametrically opposed to the way I saw the situation. I thought the poem could have benefited from the coda. “And after considering all those reasons not to do it, do it anyway.” The writers selected here should register as opposites in some way. Kerouac and Flaubert: The free-flowing writer to the obsessively precise. Hemingway and Larkin: The writer who goes into the world as opposed to the one who hides himself away. In Hull! Dickens and Coetzee: The expansive book, the sparse book. Eliot and Orwell: Right wing. Left wing. Joanne and Vidia: The magical and the real. Initials too. JK. VS. Achebe and Zola: The alphabet. Homer and tonight: From the first to the future. Ironically, for an introduction to a collection of Shakespearean sonnets this is the one in which iambic pentameter is least adhered to. There was little I could do about that. I wanted to use these names.