28 Sonnets Later

This February four* intrepid poets set off on adventure into poetry territory. Twenty-eight* days, twenty-eight* sonnets. Let's go! (*sometimes more)

28 February 2026

#28 - Le Petit Omar

(Russell J Turner) This year we are using films from the Sight and Sound 2022 list as prompts Seventh up from me is Gillo Pontecorvo’s The ...

27 February 2026

#27 - Strange Beasts Arrested

Fay Roberts’s final sonnet this year is inspired by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s romantic, mythic, surreal creation, the Thai movie Sud Pral...

26 February 2026

#26 - Sancho the Bailiff (1954)

This poem was inspired by Sansho the Bailiff, a 1954 Japanese period film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. This film is about two aristocratic c...

25 February 2026

#25 - Our Motto:

#19 - Apocalypse Now (1979) I love the smell of napalm in the morning! If someone tells me that’s their favourite line, I’ll likely tak...

24 February 2026

#24 - Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga

(Russell J Turner) This year we are using films from the Sight and Sound 2022 list as prompts Sixth up from me is Jordan Peele’s Get Out (...

23 February 2026

#23 - Disconnected Intermissions, or: if Kubrick wrote a sonnet, it would be a Chant Royale set to Strauss

Fay Roberts’s penultimate sonnet this year is inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s epic, surreal sci-fi classic, the USAmerican movie, 2001: A Spac...

22 February 2026

#22 - Spirited Away (2001)

This poem was inspired by Spirited Away (2001) which was one of my favourite films when I was in school. It’s a Japanese animated fantasy fi...

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