Field Sonnets
A sonnet sequence chronicling life & time — framed by the fluctuations of a field behind an old farmhouse, and by the words of Paul Éluard.
Miranda Beeson's debut with Ink & Ribbon Press is a unified sonnet sequence rooted in the natural world and in the interior life that world mirrors. Equal parts pastoral meditation and emotional reckoning, Field Sonnets moves between field and self, between observation and revelation.
"There is another world, but it is in this one." Paul Éluard — Epigraph to Field Sonnets
Life & time, held in form.
Field Sonnets is a sonnet sequence chronicling life and time, often framed by the fluctuations within a field behind an old farmhouse. Or, from a more internal point of view, a meditation on the words of Paul Éluard: "There is another world, but it is in this one."
The book moves between the empirical and the metaphysical — between what can be observed in the turning of a field through seasons and what can only be felt as that turning mirrors something deeper inside. The sonnet form is not ornament here; it is structure that holds the book together as a single sustained work.
Beeson's poems are praised for their economy and depth, their emotional precision, and their refusal of easy resolution. Field Sonnets is the work of a poet doing something distinctly her own.
- Title Field Sonnets
- Author Miranda Beeson
- Publisher Ink & Ribbon Press
- Publication 2026
- Formats Limited edition paperback and fine art edition
- Form Sonnet sequence
A decorated voice in contemporary poetry.
Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Award
2026 Recipient
Spotlight Award
Palette Poetry
Sonnet Award
Chicagoland
What readers are saying.
"I'm obsessed with economy, and you have the ability to imbue it with such humanity & depth of feeling."
Suzanne ClearyAuthor of The Odds
"These sonnets reveal more than that, deep wells of emotional wisdom, hard-earned. Your poems are after something different, you are doing it your own way, and I love it."
Anthony DiPietroAuthor of Kiss & Release
"Her sonnets are gorgeous, little machines full of life and its contradictions."
M. G. StephensAuthor of King Ezra and The Brooklyn Book of the Dead
"Worldly but never jaded, these poems 'catalogue the wild hawk-eyed heart' with a judicious eye, meticulous diction, a taut line, and devastating clarity."
Julie Sheehan — Author of Bar Book and Orient PointMiranda Beeson
Miranda Beeson is a poet, educator, and arts consultant. She is the author of Wildlife (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) and several chapbooks, including Catch & Release (Dancing Girl Press) and Ode to the Unexpected, published by novelist Peter Cameron's press. Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals.
As an educator, she has developed and taught poetry and creative writing programs in libraries, community centers, as a teaching artist in schools, and at Stony Brook University. She hosts two ongoing Writers Collectives — the Sunday Poets and From Left To Write — and consults in the field of intellectual property, negotiating rights and permissions on behalf of artists and other entities.
She received her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton and lives in New York City, where she appreciates Riverside Park and the North Fork of Long Island, where she appreciates Peconic Bay.
Bring this book into being.
Field Sonnets will be published by Ink & Ribbon Press in a limited edition print run, with a small number of fine art editions produced as archival objects. Pre-orders support the making of the book and help establish its first life in the world.