{"id":20071,"date":"2021-04-19T20:51:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T20:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=20071"},"modified":"2021-04-27T14:36:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:36:31","slug":"launch-of-notes-on-the-sonnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/04\/launch-of-notes-on-the-sonnets\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of Notes on the Sonnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This free online book launch will include readings from <i>Notes on the Sonnets<\/i>, a Q&amp;A, and special guests.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare&#8217;s 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party. A physicist explains dark matter in the kitchen. A crying man is consoled by a Sigmund Freud action figure. An out-of-hours doctor sells phials of dark red liquid from a briefcase. Someone takes out a guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Wry, insolent and self-eviscerating, <i>Notes on the Sonnets<\/i> riddles the Bard with the anxieties of the modern age, bringing Kennard\u2019s affectionate critique to subjects as various as love, marriage, God, metaphysics and a sad horse.<\/p>\n<p>You can preorder the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/04\/notes-on-the-sonnets\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You will be sent joining instructions for this event hosted by Zoom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This free online book launch will include readings from Notes on the Sonnets, a Q&amp;A, and special guests. Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare&#8217;s 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party. A physicist explains dark matter in the kitchen. A crying man is consoled by a Sigmund Freud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20075,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20071\/revisions\/20075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}