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ADVANCE INFORMATION

Forms from

Chaos

Sonnets and Other Poems

Ian Enters

KEY SELLING POINTS
A potted and useful history of the “sonnet”.
Explores and demonstrates the structure of various verse forms. 4
1 sonnets and 20 poems presented under four different headings.
Author won the International Sonnet Competition in 2022.

This is a collection of forty-one sonnets together with 20 examples of villanelles, pantoum, Spenserian stanza,
various ballad and rhyming couplet verses alongside “free verse” but the abiding focus is the sonnet both in
Petrarchan and Elizabethan form.

The book’s introduction provides a concise account of the sonnet’s history with examples. Between each
section of poems there are brief contextual comments.

From puppy training to philosophy, from self-pity to dancing, from AI to Wet Sand, from the Goodies to Shoe
cleaning, the poems share immediate experiences and conjure magic from them. Day by day thoughts expand
into polemics, the natural world, links to other poets and thinkers. The technical skills needed in poetic forms
create strong structures through which powerful thoughts and emotions are distilled.

A graduate of Trinity College, Oxford, Ian Enters worked in Education and became Adviser for English and the
Arts in Sheffield. He is a published writer of four collections of poetry, three novels and libretti for
school/community musicals. He wrote and produced the opera Avalon. His most recent publication, Word
Hoard, comprises translations and re-workings of Anglo-Saxon and medieval poetry. Ian lives in Norfolk.

Publication Date: 28th March 2024 £9.00 ISBN: 9781805143017
Thema subject category: DCC – Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
paperback 198 x 129 mm 72 pp Portrait Author location: Norfolk

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