What Grandma Said

Claudia Daventry has won two Templar Poetry Pamphlet awards. 

The Oligarch Loses His Patience won the 2014 Templar Pamphlet Awards and What Grandma Said won the inaugural Pocket Pamphlet Award and was launched at STANZA 2022 in the J G Innes bookshop, St Andrews. 

'The Corona of sonnets was first dreamed up – officially, anyway – by the Siena Academy. John Donne used the form to illustrate the circularity of existence and our connection with a creator, later expressed – in poetry – in Eliot's ‘in my end is my beginning’. Your basic Corona is seven sonnets long: I’ll say ‘only’ seven sonnets long, because a step up from this is what’s known as a Heroic Corona - a fifteen-sonnet marathon in which each sonnet starts with the last line of the previous sonnet until the game is completed with a supersonnet made up of all the repeated lines in order. I have gone a step further with a full sixteen sonnets so that the very last line is the first line of the entire cycle: I’m proposing a sonnet to a page.

I admit to having stretched the repeats for the modern ear, which cannot bear too much repetition, and, for any keen metre-maids out there, to having added a metric foot here or deleted one there in a bid to avoid feet of clay.'

ISBN 9781911132615