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Title: Sonnets for Christ the King
Author: Joseph Charles MacKenzie
Narrator: Ian Russell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-23-17
Publisher: Author's Republic
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
The 77 Sonnets for Christ the King are the first significant body of traditional lyric verse to appear in over a century. These breathtaking poems intertwine love, death, and time's passage with sacred subjects drawn from the Church's liturgical year. British actor Ian Russell's voice is manly, intimate, and seductive, perfect for MacKenzie's unforgettable sonnets.
Members Reviews:
A Beautiful Audible Edition of these Sonnets
I am more than happy with my purchase of the Audible edition of Mr. MacKenzie's "Sonnets for Christ the King". I was privileged to obtain many of these sonnets in their written form, and Ian Russell's rendition of these make them even more compelling. Of the many fine sonnets in this sequence, I have chosen just one, sonnet 59 "Ode to Spring", as an example of Mr. MacKenzie's mastery of the Shakespearean sonnet form:
ODE TO SPRING
Spring, come not soft, but agitate the sense,
My trembling thoughts transfigure into leaves!
With your perfumes the new-born air is dense,
And every tendril to your trellis cleaves.
The world is but a canvas for your brush,
You palette infinite with every hue;
Your rivulets incite the river's rush,
And every flower sips your frigid dew.
Waft upward with your winds my dreaming kite,
That bridges longing to your fleeting clouds,
On your fair breezes let my heart skip light,
Release all spirits from their winter shrouds!
And weave, O Spring, your garlands for the brow
Of Him who came to die, that we live now.
I also once had the privilege of reading MacKenzie's superb original 154 sonnet sequence, for which he won first place in the Long Poem Section of the Scottish International Poetry Competition.
I can only hope that Mr. MacKenzie will soon also make available the book form of these sonnets. They are well worth our time.
America has a new major poet - 'get' these sonnets!
It was Stephen Fry who said of the sonnet: âThe ability to write them fluently was, and to some extent still is, considered the true mark of the poetâ. How true; to expect each poet to write an epic is too much; and to be able to write a haiku is too trivial; and to write free verse is nothing; but in the strange and seemingly limitless flexibility of the sonnet form poets can demonstrate the most complex â and, contrariwise, most simple - thoughts and emotions, as well as delineating almost every shade of human experience. Looking back over the last five hundred years of the English language almost all the truly great poets have produced memorable sonnets whose impact has been lasting and profound. And as well as the sonnet speaking in its own individual voice, we have whole collections of them, most notably Shakespeareâs 154 (although if we include sonnets appearing in his plays, there are more), wherein the work begins to assume epic proportions as a kind of narrative emerges in which topics and themes are explored in relentless precision and beauty. Certainly, I regard the ability to construct a sonnet of beauty as second only to writing epic poetry in the canon of English literature.
We have, then, Sonnets for Christ the King by Joseph Charles Mackenzie, a name familiar to readers of The Society of Classical Poets. Currently the work is in audio book form, although I have been privileged to see an advance electronic copy; it comprises 77 sonnets in all.