CELEBRATIONS of the bard in the 400th year since his death are continuing at the Bodleian Libraries tomorrow.
Two special sets of William Shakespeare's sonnets will be welcomed into the libraries' collections.
Earlier this year, the Bodleian invited printers around the world to submit hand-printed copies of each of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets.
Printers took up the challenge with great enthusiasm and the Bodleian has now received sonnets from more than a dozen countries in languages ranging from Armenian and Polish to Scots and Welsh.
Members of the public are invited to join Simon Armitage, the University of Oxford’s Professor of Poetry at the event to welcome the sonnets at 11am.
During the event, Mr Armitage will welcome another unique set of poetry into the Bodleian’s collection.
He will formally accept sonnets composed by Oxford school pupils during a series of workshops led by Kate Clanchy, the Poet of Oxford.
Alexandra Franklin, coordinator of the Bodleian's Centre for the Study of the Book, said: "All of these projects have been inspired by Shakespeare’s popularity 400 years after his death.
"Having taken a fresh look at Shakespeare’s plays and poetry in all of these projects, we feel that the Shakespearian sonnet, his special poetic form, is very much alive today in Oxford and around the world."
The event, titled Sonnets Alive, takes place in Blackwell Hall at the Weston Library.
For more information about the sonnet-printing project, including photographs and a list of all participating printers, visit: bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/sonnets2016
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