Category Archives: Sonnets

Review: Swollen Tongues by Kathleen Oliver

Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC) March 7 – 26, 2006 Performance viewed: March16

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The Sonnet Form

I have been told that a sonnet is written in iambic pentameter, and that my “sonnets” are full of iambs and anapaests, and therefore not sonnets. Fair comment. I just find that sticking with iambic pentameter seems to force me … Continue reading

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Memories of the summer that was

Soft winter has not tested us as yet; The snow that lies in leaden lumps stays mute: Days oscillate from dry to cold and wet; And snowbirds’ needs from vague to strictly moot. In pastels: pink and aqua, orange and … Continue reading

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