On Shakespeare's Sonnets

Hannah Crawforth is Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at King's College London, UK.Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at King's College London, UK.

• ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsWhat poverty my Muse brings forth;Roger McGoughSonnet 1; William ShakespeareSenex on Market Street; Douglas DunnSonnet 11; William ShakespeareThirty-Five; Jackie KaySonnet 12; William ShakespeareRhapsodies; Andrew MotionSonnet 15; William ShakespeareSonnet 15: A Graft; Paul MuldoonSonnet 18; William ShakespeareDream; P. J. KavanaghSonnet 20; William ShakespeareDi-Di-Dah-Dah-Di-Dit; Simon ArmitageSonnet 22; William ShakespeareSonnet; Wendy CopeSonnet 33; William ShakespeareHearing Voices; Mimi KhalvatiSonnet 35; William ShakespearePeacemaker; Michael Symmons RobertsSonnet 36; William ShakespeareTwo; Don PattersonSonnet 38; William ShakespeareAfter Sonnet 38; Nick LairdSonnet 43; William ShakespeareThe Trick; Imtiaz DharkerSonnet 49; William ShakespeareAt the Halle; Bernard O'DonoghueSonnet 55; William ShakespeareThe Sonnets; Michael LongleySonnet 60; William ShakespeareTime's Fool; Kevin Crossley-HollandYour Life as a Wave; Ruth PadelSonnet 65; William ShakespeareStorm, Nissaki; Robin RobertsonTwo Sonnets; Alan BrownjohnSonnet 71; William ShakespeareStill Life; John BurnsideSonnet 73; William Shakespeare73 Shakespeare Close; David Harsent2014/2015; Jo ShapcottSonnet 80; William ShakespeareSalvage; Alan JenkinsSonnet 94; William ShakespeareThree Views of a Secret; Sean O'BrienSonnet 99; William ShakespeareGentian Violet; Paul FarleySonnet 116; William ShakespeareMagnetism; Gillian ClarkeCXVI; Carol Ann DuffyBetrayal; Elaine FeinsteinSonnet 143; William ShakespeareDrowned Man; Fiona SampsonW.S.: The Tithon Sonnets; John FullerList of Contributors and Notes to PoemsIndex of PoetsIndex of First Lines

These contributors are some of the best, and best-known poets writing today ... The result is a slimly elegant book of new poetry, some of it very fine indeed ... It really is extraordinary that these sonnets, first published in 1609, can still be engendering such a range of new ideas and ways of expressing them. Congratulations to the editors Hannah Crawforth and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann.