I am writing a long sequence of sonnets that will see publication in 2023. I thought it might be fun to share some of them in advance.
A sonnet is included below, along with an audio recording of me reading it.
On Being Thrown Over Would your love for me increase were I to die? Barely-mourned, would my decease erase me from your memory? Just when did your febrile eyes seek solace in others, find the fuel to weave a quilt of lies pre-posthumously cruel? Was I no more than ornament, a transient nod to Spring, the blush of one short season’s mild content now only fit for fickle disregarding? Was there nothing more I could ever be to you than an unimportant fragment of your history?
Ian Gouge - Writer 