The Love Sonnet Has Been Reinvented (Upside Down)

Lulu (www.lulu.com), the world's fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books, has just added ‘City of Angels’, a book of experimental, original sonnets about unrequited love, to its growing library of downloadable and paper publications.

This sequence of sonnets that invert, tumble and chatter around each other, making as much sense upside-down as right way up, and slotted into each other in promiscuous abandon, was written by the poet R.C. Appleton in Thailand not very far from Bangkok and Pattaya, cities of erotic fame. The book is illustrated.

Have you ever seen anyone write something, which makes perfect sense, and then reverse the order of the words or sentences and still have it make perfect, if slightly different, sense? Rosemary Charlotte Appleton has done this with the sonnet. Her love sonnets are just as good backwards as forwards! She has also found a way of mixing one sonnet up with another and still have the whole thing work just as well backwards as forwards, inside out, and upside down! So if you know someone whose heart has recently been turned inside out, or whose life has been turned upside down by falling in or out of love, perhaps these sonnets will be helpful.

Rosemary Charlotte Appleton is a published poet whose poetry – and sonnets - have shared pages in the most reputable literary journals in England with such eminent writers as John Betjeman and Elizabeth Jennings. She lives in London, England when not travelling all over the world teaching English and working as an editor and journalist. Her last non-freelance job was in Changhua, Taiwan, as an English editor. Her travels and international experience inform her writing as does her education - she speaks five languages, three of them quite fluently.

A free preview of Rosemary's work is available online at http://www.lulu.com/rcappleton so that those who have little experience of love poetry can see for themselves what is on offer. The book is available as a download or as a hard cover book with illustrations by the author.