For no particular reason, and at no-one else's behest, Niall O'Sullivan set about writing a sonnet a day during the month of September 2010. Never missing his daily deadline, Niall published first drafts with accompanying videos on his website www.niallosullivan.co.uk. The resulting body of work went to places that few sonnets have gone to before: searching for snow leopards on the mountains of Afghanistan; finding erotic links between lycanthropy and botany; joining the final Neanderthal on his last night on Earth; justifying the clown costume bomb disposal scene in Octopussy. Months after the project finished, the poems can now be read for the first time in their finished forms. The Sonnet Hack pamphlet marks the completion of an ambitious project that sought to link formal poetry more intimately to our social condition and our time.
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The Sonnet Hack pamphlet marks the completion of an ambitious project in which Niall O'Sullivan sought to link formal poetry more intimately to our social condition and our time through writing of a daily sonnet in September 2010.
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ISBN
9781905233182
Publisert
2010-12-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Flipped Eye Publishing Limited
Høyde
200 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
36

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Niall O'Sullivan has performed poetry at venues, theatres and festivals all over the UK and Europe since the late nineties. He has published two full collections of poetry with flipped eye, the latest being 2007's, Ventriloquism for Monkeys, from which the poem 'The Father in Law' was highly commended by the 2008 Forward Prize judges. Niall featured on BBC Radio and Television during his residency at the 2009 Wimbledon Tennis Championships. He currently hosts Poetry Unplugged, London's biggest open mic, at Covent Garden's Poetry Cafe and teaches at the Poetry School.