For our fourth sonnet chain, we have invited longtime New Boots co-conspirator, previous chain contributor, and cover artist Sophie Herxheimer to be co-editor along with the very wonderful poet/artist of the idea of Northness (& Greenlandic), Nancy Campbell.
The Art Sonnet Chain will start on February 21st and post fortnightly here on the New Boots and Pantisocracies site, with each link being shared across Facebook, TwittereX, BlueSky, and Insta. Then, all being well, Whaleback City Press will publish as usual in the autumn.
Just as the format of the Sonnet Chain took the idea of a corona of sonnets and made it collaborative, the Art Sonnet Chain (as you might expect given the involvement of the inventor of Protest Calligraphy!) will explore the junction between poetry about art and art that engages with poetry.
To that end, while working within the constraints of the sonnet chain, where the last line of each sonnet becomes the first line of the next, we hope this theme might allow not just ekphrasis or poems about iconic (and less well-known) figures, but experiment: sonnets about processes, techniques, ideas - about art-making itself.
Sophie and Nancy are looking for art structured like a sonnet, for sonnets that can be drawn, snipped, or modelled. As long as it is reproducible on paper in black and white, and something like a last line can be handed on, let's see how far we can go!
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