Abstract

Canadian poet Sonnet L’Abbe joins UK poet Tim Atkins in readings of experimental and innovative reconfigurations of Shakespeare’s and Petrarch’s sonnets respectively. Sound play, conceptual and improvisatory free play revise and retool these works in wildly productive work. Sonnet L’Abbé, Ph.D. is the author of A Strange Relief and Killarnoe, and was the 2014 guest editor of Best Canadian Poetry. Her chapbook, Anima Canadensis, was published by Junction Books in 2016, and won the 2017 bpNichol Chapbook Award. In her next collection, Sonnet’s Shakespeare,” L’Abbé “writes over” all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets. L’Abbé is a professor of Creative Writing and English at Vancouver Island University.