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Illicit Sonnets

Illicit Sonnets

Illicit Sonnets

Illicit Sonnets – a bawdy modern reboot of Sonnets from the Portuguese – tells of the love between Salim and Laila, an “elderessa”. Their highly-sexed romance, bridging cultures, generations and seas, is unfolded in poetry as sparkling and as shameless as champagne.

About the Author

George Elliott Clarke is a poet, playwright and scholar born in Windsor, Nova Scotia.

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