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Last year's winner was British-Trinidadian poet and novelist Anthony Joseph for his autobiographical collection Sonnets for Albert, which explores the impact of growing up with an absent father.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2024

“You don’t seem too haunted, but you haunted,” repeats a line in Terrance Hayes’s “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.”

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2018

Steven Stucky’s “Two Holy Sonnets of John Donne” performed in memory of the composer who died last year, are conventionally tuned, but the musky mezzo-soprano of Peabody Southwell filled in earthy nuance.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2017

Conducted by one Erik Didriksen, who will be publishing a collection of these parodies this fall, the site Pop Sonnets benefits from Didriksen’s perfect reproduction of the Jacobean typography and spelling.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 29, 2015

He added, “Sure!” maybe just in case I was naive enough to believe the Sonnets were something I’d have to consult daily, like some kind of guide for living or dating.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove