Sonnets and Bonnets by Diana Birchall

I take a personal interest in this month’s theme of Sonnets and Bonnets, because as it happens I am the daughter and the wife of poets. My father, Paul Eaton Reeve, was a fairly well-known avant-garde Greenwich Village poet who did most of his writing and publishing in literary magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. My husband Peter Birchall is also a fine poet in a more classical style. I will share with you one short poem from each of them:

Paul Eaton Reeve

KEY POEM by Paul Eaton Reeve

If only one ...