Anti-sonnets

The following article selects twelve works from Mark Staniforth’s year-long ‘Anti-sonnets’ series, for which Staniforth created an experimental sonnet for each day of the year. The project forms part of a broader investigation into the potential exploitation of subjectivity in modern, multi-media-inspired praxis. The sonnets recognize the inevitable failure of the pursuit of absolute objectivity: that authorial influence can never entirely be purged. Therefore it was appropriate that the sonnets were created for and shared on a blog – one of the earliest examples of Web 2.0 user-generated content-driven web design (https://antisonnets.wordpress.com/).