Sonnets of Solace

World renown verbal artist, lyric smith and performance poet, and international best selling author Gary Oliver offers his interpretation of the sonnet form in his latest book of verse. Inspired by the works and life of William Shakespeare, Gary has chosen the sonnet form to express his emotions at challenging and difficult times in his life. In these selected verse the reader will find despair and hope, love and hate and elation and frustration-all human emotion are explored as an outlet for events tragic and euphoric and the reading of these poems, Gary hopes, will bring the reader, in difficult times... solace. 'All time is precious, all moments significant every event leaves a wake in time and space.' Gary OliverWe have all found the need to learn to keep our own company better and only by knowing and loving ones self can we really love one another ...and it is by taking solace in self we can better take solace in others...