TSP is back from holiday with a special sonnet month in which we will be focussing exclusively on the 14 line classic poem but in various versions and ages ( Read more... )

Herewith Jonty's amended version = though he thinks they should stand alongside one another as instructive on how hard it can be to add lines later !

( The Age of Consent )

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I had just thought that it was safe that my shopping lists were not going to come out in iambic pentametre again when a couple more sonnets ambushed me. So here they are: One of Archie in Ferrol and one of Pellew at Quiberon Bay. I keep thinking they are the last for a while and keep getting proved wrong- so no predictions this time ( Read more... )