Metal Gear Sonnets

On Shadow Moses Island, a black-ops mission unfolds again, but this time in fourteen-line bursts. Metal Gear Sonnets replays the iconic 1998 game as a formally inventive sequence that moves through codec calls, boss battles, hostage scenes and end credits, letting lyric tenderness and brutal comedy share the same frame. Laurie Eaves writes with the precision of a speedrunner and the ear of a poet, turning stealth mechanics into meditation, nuclear threat into contemporary dread, and pixel snow into something that can still cut skin.

These poems break and remake the sonnet again and again: concrete text, glitch-speech, footnotes, and sudden turns into the real world (Chornobyl, Stuxnet, Hiroshima) as the book asks what we save, what we repeat, and what we call heroism when the controller is in our hands.