Some Things Matter: 63 Sonnets

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In 2009, having attended a workshop on sonnet-writing, Leeds-based poet James Nash took home a half-finished poem and worked it up into a well-received romantic gift. Intrigued and inspired by the framework offered by the Shakespearean sonnet, he wrote another, and another... By Christmas 2011, James had spent the intervening period writing almost nothing else - and had produced more than one hundred and sixty sonnets in total.'Some Things Matter' is the end result of this process: the finest sixty-three examples edited and ordered by the poet, and collected in print for the first time by Valley Press. By turns philosophical, satirical, warm and bittersweet, the finished sequence spans the full gamut of the human experience - seasons change, friends (and pets) are lost and found, and everything grows older (sometimes gracefully). Any reader will find much to identify with and enjoy within these 882 lines; a landmark achievement in the career of a great Yorkshire writer.--- Don't miss the best of James' non-sonnet poetry, 'A Bit of an Ice Breaker: Selected and Uncollected Poems', available now exclusively on Kindle. ---