Pop Sonnets: Shakespearean Spins on Your Favourite Songs - Hardcover

Didriksen, Erik

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0008137196 ISBN 13: 9780008137199

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2015

Synopsis

Think modern pop music is missing a little poetry? Prefer rhyme schemes to the club scene? Wait for the volta more often than the drop? If so, Pop Sonnets is the anthology for you. From ABBA, The Beatles and Michael Jackson to Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, this witty and wonderful mash-up collection has a sonnet for every pop fan in your life. This hardback book has 124 pages and measures: 20.6 x 13.6 x 1.5cm

About this title

Review:

‘A must-have for literary buffs and music fans alike’ Paste

‘A terrific feat of will and intellect’ PopMatters

‘From the Backstreet Boys’ ‘I Want It That Way’ to Miley Cyrus’s ‘Party in the USA,’ finally poetry nerds who love pop music have a home’ Spin

‘This book is made for drinking games or could moonlight as a pub quiz helper, and a well-loved teaching resource’ Monsters & Critics

About the Author:

Erik Didriksen is a software engineer, musician, sonneteer, and trivia enthusiast. He resides in Astoria, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0008137196
• ISBN 13: 9780008137199
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144