Poet Sonnet L’Abbé repurposes the Bard in Sonnet’s Shakespeare, with triumphant results

For Sonnet’s Shakespeare, Sonnet L’Abbé went through each of William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets and created new works by writing over and around them.Sonnet L’Abbé’s new book is a labour of love; one that had her lost at times. It is a triumph of effort, imagination and tenacity – and you might say the book she was born to write. For, L’Abbé went through each of William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets and created new works by writing over and around them.

She began the project in 2012, inspired, in part, by discussions about the appropriate use of source text and the rise of erasure poetry, where words or letters are removed from an original text to create a new work of art. “It made me think about how one does not necessarily have to delete a voice on a page or physical body, a person, in order to silence them,” she says during an interview, fresh off a seaplane.

The process was painstaking. She cut and pasted two copies of each sonnet, keeping the original on top and transforming the bottom copy to become her own. The collection can be read as a document of our time, which is amazing considering the timelessness of the source material. The works are peppered with contemporary references – MDMA, IKEA, LOLs – and deal with current events such as Black Lives Matter, #metoo even Jose Bautista’s bat-flip.

One thing L’Abbé does not want to discuss is what happened during a residency on literary diversity at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2017. She was a faculty member at Centering Ourselves: Writing in a Racialized Canada when tensions arose. Her sonnet CXLVII, which begins “I’m sorry,” was inspired in part by the experience. “Meaning to call out the disease of colonial amnesia, which feeds on being out of touch, on withholding empathies which would jeopardize the empire, I overstepped.

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