Notes on the Sonnets is intoxicating - a kind of stream of
semi-consciousness, at once alert (there are substances involved) and
dazed, disorientated (there is rum involved). Sentences make your head
spin, then hurt: in 154 poems, there are seemingly numberless ideas,
observations, aphorisms, characters. [...] Any party, like any poem,
can be surreal and self-conscious; but only the best ones revolve around
love - the way we make and unmake it, the way the mind whirls under its
influence.
Katherine Cowles, New Statesman