018 Piers Hugill – ‘Il Canzoniere’
Veer Publication 018 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-03-2]
Piers Hugill’s sonnets work their way up from one- to two- to three- to four- to five-word lines. This complexly incremental poetry makes the form strange, unbinding its energy by bringing to the surface the spectral ordering and ranking that goes on, concealed, inside the consecrated forms of poetry. These poems give a contemporary energy to the sonnet form.
5x8” size. 96 pages. November 2009. £6.00
Listen to an excerpt from Il Canzoniere (and Shuddered) recorded at the launch reading at the Small Publishers Fair 2009 in November 2009 (introduced by Stephen Mooney).
Here's a sample of the text:
