When sonnets are mentioned, people expect to encounter poems of romantic love, lyrical descriptions, gentle philosophising or emotionled musing. These are, indeed, the traditional subjects poets have selected for the form; but you can write a sonnet about anything under the sun.
Susan Clark of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire found the ideal subject in her grandson, and the first two quatrains of her Shakespearean sonnet describe a lively little boy whose biggest care is being penned in the classroom for the day.
The mood changes as we move into the third quatrain. This takes us out of the child’s world and into the adult’s, with the weight of broadcast news casting its disturbing shadows. But the poem comes full circle, and
