Space Parsley

Shakespearean scholar rewrites the story of Love in a speculative translation of Petrarchan erotica.

Petrarchan love poetry mistranslated for a queer contemporary audience by a rising star of Shakespearean and Renaissance scholarshop. Come for the drama, stay for an erotic verve that will make you blush.

Debut collection of mistranslations of Petrarchan love poems by Kat Addis, a Shakespearean scholar attuned to the hidden erotic energies of the Renaissance. Each poem speaks through character, bringing dramatic, theatrical, ritual and gestural performance to the page. These experiments in form and translation ask the reader to stay for their erudition and ceremony.