Some poets have chosen not to use rhyme in their sonnet. In the 1920s, WH Auden wrote one of the first unrhymed sonnets in English, The Secret Agent. Other poets have written ‘inverted ...

Here’s an old poem to greet the new year. Greet, yes, even if we’re filled with dread or sorrow, there’s always a fresh start ...

Ruby explains this in one of hundreds of footnotes that course in unrhymed 10-syllable lines down the book’s right-hand pages, opposite the main poem (also in 10-syllable lines). In tandem ...