Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Poets and Poems: James Tweedie and “Mostly Sonnets”


While the sonnet may be the poetic form most closely associated with romance and love, poet James Tweedie uses it for a wide array of other themes and subjects as well – daily life, daydreaming by a river, a Christmas memory, travels through Scotland and Ireland, the beauty of a sunset, and even a pandemic disease like the Black Death.  

His Mostly Sonnets: Formal Poetry for an Informal World includes 37 sonnets. The collection also contains 16 other poems that use traditional forms. Tweedie’s poetry depicts an eternal order underlying a superficially chaotic world, an understanding that sometimes myths – like the romantic view of war – need to be challenged, and that we have much to learn from history. 

 

To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.

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