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  Fleabag: The Original Play (NHB...

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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  'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex. I just can't stop thinking about it.'
  The Fleabag bites back. A rip-roaring account of some sort of female living her sort of life.
  Phoebe Waller-Bridge's debut play is an outrageously funny monologue for a female performer. It premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performed by Phoebe herself, before transferring to Soho Theatre, London, for several successful runs, followed by a UK tour.
  It won a Fringe First Award in Edinburgh, the Most Promising New Playwright and Best Female Performance at the Off West End Theatre Awards, The Stage Award for Best Solo Performer and the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. It received a Special Commendation in the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. In 2016 it was turned into a wildly successful and 'utterly riveting' (Guardian) BBC television series.
  This edition also features an introduction by the author.
  'Believe the hype, Waller-Bridge's raw writing… really is as good as everyone says' - The Stage
  'Sucker-punch funny... I've never seen a play quite like it' - Scotsman
  'frank and sometimes brutally funny... devastatingly good' - The Times
  'blessed with a rare and compelling life force... deliciously dirty and scabrously funny' - Evening Standard

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  What My Hand Say

  Glenis Redmond

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  What My Hand Say, on one hand is a bold unapologetic tribute of black people living their livesin South Carolina. While on other hand, it is a palpable reckoning with the state’s weightedhistory. In this book, Glenis Redmond’s poems span from the 1800s to the present. The impactof going from poem to poem purposely causes emotional whiplash, as if to say welcome to thevolatile place, in which “I/we have always had to live.”

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  The God of Loneliness - Selected...

  Philip Schultz

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  Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has been celebrated for his singular vision of the American immigrant experience and Jewish identity, his alternately fierce and tender portrayal of family life, and his rich and riotous evocation of city streets. His poems have found enthusiastic audiences among readers of Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, Slate, The New Yorker, and other publications. His willingness to face down the demons of failure and loss, in his previous book particularly, make him a poet for our times, a poet who can write “If I have to believe in something / I believe in despair.” Yet he remains oddly undaunted: “sometimes, late at night / we, my happiness and I, reminisce / lifelong antagonists / enjoying each other’s company.”The God of Loneliness, a major collection of Schultz’s work, includes poems from his five books (Like Wings, Deep Within the Ravine, The Holy Worm of Praise, Living in the Past, Failure) and fourteen new poems. It is a volume to cherish, from “one of the least affected of American poets, and one of the fiercest” (Tony Hoagland), and it will be an essential addition to the history of American poetry.

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  The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett...

  Elizabeth Barret Browning

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  Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett was born on 6 March 1806, in Coxhoe Hall, County Durham, the eldest of 12 children. The family's wealth was derived from sugar plantations manned by slaves in Jamaica and enabling them to also purchase a 500-acre estate in Herefordshire. This wealth allowed her to publish poems from an early age. However by age 20 the family's fortunes were to decline, but never below comfortable, after losing a lawsuit over their plantations. Shortly thereafter Elizabeth became afflicted with an unknown disease and became addicted to morphine. Despite this she continued to write and became increasingly popular both in England and in the United States. Her poems against slavery chronicled her abhorrence of the basis of the family wealth. In 1844 she was introduced to the younger Robert Browning who was a great admirer of her work and began a secret courtship and thence to marriage. To him she wrote and dedicated one of her greatest works, Sonnets from the Portuguese, and they went to live in Italy in 1846. Although by now an invalid, she seemed insecure of the love of the vigorous Robert but continued to write and publish poetry as diverse as love sonnets and political pieces before succumbing to death in 1861. Our readers include Ghizela Rowe and Richard Mitchley. 
   
  01 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - An Introduction 
  02 - A Curse For A Nation  
  03 - The House Of Clouds  
  04 - The Runaway  Slave At Pilgrim's Point  
  05 - Comfort  
  06 - Chorus Of Eden Spirits   
  07 - The Autumn  
  08 - A Musicial Instrument  
  09 - To My Father On His Birthday 
  10 - Aurora Leigh (Excerpts) 
  11 - A Thought For A Lonly Death Bed 
  12 - The Ladies Yes  
  13 - My Heart & I  
  14 - A Man's Requirements  
  15 - Change Upon Change  
  16 - A Woman's Shortcomings  
  17 - Sonnets From The Portuguese

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  Chamber Music

  James Joyce

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  Chamber Musicby James JoyceNarrated by Denis DalyThis collection of 36 short poems was published in 1907.The title is alleged to be an ironic pun referring cryptically to the sound of urine striking the sides of a chamber pot. However, the poems have no touch of vulgarity or bawdiness.The collection received favorable critical comments from Ezra Pound and W. B. Yeats.Joyce later commented on the poems: "When I wrote Chamber Music, I was a lonely boy, walking about by myself at night and thinking that one day a girl would love me."Production copyright 2024 Voices of Today

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  The Night Alive (NHB Modern Plays)

  Conor McPherson

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  An inimitably warm and stylish play that deftly mines the humanity to be found in the most unlikely of situations.
  Tommy's not a bad man, he's getting by. Renting a run-down room in his uncle Maurice's house, just about keeping his ex-wife and kids at arm's length and rolling from one get-rich-quick scheme to the other with his pal Doc. Then one day he comes to the aid of Aimee, who's not had it easy herself, struggling through life the only way she knows how.
  Their past won't let go easily. But together there's a glimmer of hope they could make something more of their lives. Something extraordinary. Perhaps.
  The Night Alive premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London in June 2013, directed by Conor McPherson.

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