![]() ![]() Over the past 6 months, this poem has been steadily drawing me in. Or perhaps I had read it before, somewhere along the lines of school and university modules – but it had never come to me in the right way, anyway. But when I found this one, I knew I had been blindly over-looking a real gem. I have my select, favourite two or three – and I have trouble expanding my horizons and experimenting with a few new choices. ![]() I am a big fan of Shakespeare, and of his sonnets: but they have always been to me a bit like a box of Quality Street. ![]() It came to my attention late last year, when I was flicking through The Reader Organisation’s poetry anthology, Poems To Take Home. This is not a poem that I have always loved, or even been familiar with. This week's Featured Poem comes from Liverpool Hope Reader-in-Residence Charlotte Weber, who talks about the joys of discovering - and sharing - this Shakespearean sonnet. ![]()
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