Living Will: Shakespeare after Dark

An unconventional ’translation’ of Shakespeare’s sonnets that highlights the homo-erotic subtext of the poetry, with the original sonnets printed beside Rhenisch’s new versions. With sly use of humour and many deeply moving, and by turn raucous poems, this collection is guaranteed to make you view Shakespeare in a different light.

Harold Rhenisch has published twelve collections of poetry, including Free Will (Ronsdale, 2004), a novel, Carnival, about a boy coming of age in wartime Germany, and two books of bioregional essays. The latest, Tom Thomson’s Shack, was nominated for two BC Book Prizes. He recently received the ARC 2003 Poem of the Year award. He studied drama and writing in Victoria, farmed in the Okanagan, and has represented Canadian poetry in England. He lives in 150 Mile House, BC.