I can happily recommend Paul Muldoon’s anthology of old and new sonnets Scanty Plot of Ground, which I read with real pleasure. Before opening it I thought it might include something by Jamie McKendrick. Many of my favourite poems by him involve brilliant reworkings of different aspects of sonnet form. Unfortunately my circumstances at the moment make it impossible to write a piece exploring this. However, I can’t resist the temptation to repost something about one of his poems that I wrote for the London Grip:

Fourteen lines long, like many of his pieces at all stages of his career, “Alternative … Continue Reading