“The Wild Hunt Divinations: A Grimoire” is a stunning second collection from National Poetry Series winner, Trevor Ketner. Comprised of 154 sonnets, each anagrammed line-by-line from Shakespeare's sonnets, the book refracts these lines through the thematic lens of transness, queer desire, kink, and British paganism. The sonnets come together to form a grimoire that casts a trancelike and intense spell on the reader. Centered on love and desire in the English canon, this collection speaks to the ever-emerging and beautiful manifestations of queer love and desire. Relentless, excessive, wild, and tender, “The Wild Hunt Divinations: A Grimoire” sets itself to chanting from beginning to end.
"Across a joyful space of patter, patterns and propulsive sound, Ketner writes a lyric energized as much as the original might have appeared to contemporary audiences in the Elizabethan era, updating content, concerns and perspectives, but allowing the elements of what might be possible through a language that could never have been previously imagined."
rob mclennan
"This is Shakespeare in Emily Dickinson drag by way of Dodie Bellamy's Cunt-Ups... Ketner's project brings to the surface a renegade queerness that was (apparently) always available through the matter of Shakespeare's sonnets."
