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  Rhyme A Dozen A - Sufi’s - 12...

  Jalaluddin Rumi, Saadi,...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Sufi's - An Introduction 
  2 - A World with No Boundaries by Jalaluddin Rumi 
  3 - One Body by Saadi 
  4 - An Ocean Without Shore by Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi 
  5 - All Pervading Consciousness by Farid ud-Din Attar 
  6 - Your Hope Is My Heart by Rabia al Basri 
  7 - Song 9 - Oh How May I Ever Express That Secret Word by Kabir 
  8 - Beauty of Truth by Khwaja Ghulam Farid 
  9 - Neither Hindu Nor Muslim by Bulleh Shah 
  10 - Sleep on Thine Eyes by Hafiz 
  11 - A Life Without Love by Shams Tabrizi 
  12 - Kalam - I  by Sultan Bahu 
  13 - The Walled Garden by Sanai Ghaznavi

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  The Crocodile (NHB Modern Plays)

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  Ivan is a struggling actor who hasn't yet achieved the recognition he feels he deserves. But all that is about to change when, one afternoon at the zoo with his friend Zack, he is swallowed whole by a crocodile.
  
  
  
  Based on Dostoyevsky's short story, The Crocodile is a ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play about art, animals and what happens when you try to take on the system from within... a crocodile.
  
  
  
  It premiered as part of the 2015 Manchester International Festival, in a co-production with The Invisible Dot.

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  When Kafka Met Einstein

  James Knox Whittet

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  When Kafka Met Einstein is the first full collection from Scottish poet James Knox Whittet.
  The poems combine the playful and the intellectual, moving easily between Nietzsche and the Teletubbies. Brought up on the island of Islay, some of Knox Whittet's poetry is inspired by the landscapes and history of Scottish islands, while elsewhere he is at Newport Pagnell Service Station at 3am, or writing about Iris Murdoch's Alzheimer's. There is also a poem about the little-known fact that Hitler attended the same school as Wittgenstein.
  This book is also available as an ebook: buy it from Amazon here.
  
  James Knox Whittet was born and brought up on the Hebridean island of Islay, where his father was head gardener at a small castle. His poems have won the George Crabbe Memorial Award three times. His first poetry pamphlet, A Brief History Of Devotion, was published by Hawthorn Press in 2003; his second, Seven Poems for Engraved Fishermen, was shortlisted for the Callum MacDonald Award from the National Library of Scotland (2004). He has previously edited two acclaimed anthologies for Iron Press: 100 Island Poems of Great Britain and Ireland (2005) and Writers on Islands (2008); the latter was nominated by the Scotsman as one of the Books of the Year. He now lives in Norfolk.

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  2nd May 1997 (NHB Modern Plays)

  Jack Thorne

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  A smouldering play about escaping the past, seizing the present and owning the future.
  
  2nd May 1997. An historic victory. The Tories, eighteen years in power, are defeated as New Labour sweeps into government. From the euphoria and despair, three deeply personal stories emerge.
  
  Tory MP Robert prepares to attend the count. With defeat looming large, he fears becoming a forgotten man, while his wife Marie counts the cost of her own sacrifice to politics. Lib Dem footsoldier Ian is no hero, but party-crasher Sarah is determined to make him one. Best mates Jake and Will wake up with a new world order to memorise before their A-level Politics class. Jake dreams of Number 10. Will dreams of Jake.
  
  'rising playwright Jack Thorne takes us back in time with such quiet profundity and verve you get a burst of inspiration to match the uplift of those distant days' - Telegraph<
  
  'richly rewarding... playwright Jack Thorne elegantly refracts the early hours of Blair through three very different relationships... A superb 90 minutes' -Evening Standard

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  Long Ago

  Christina Rossetti

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Long Ago by Christina G. Rossetti. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 9, 2012.Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is perhaps best known for her long poem Goblin Market, her love poem Remember, and for the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.  (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  Zen Poems of China and Japan -...

  Lucien Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto

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  “Excellent . . . A fine introduction to Chinese and Japanese Zen poetry for all readers” from the editors of Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter (Choice).   Capturing in verse the ageless spirit of Zen, these 150 poems reflect the insight of famed masters from the ninth century to the nineteenth. The translators, in collaboration with Zen Master Taigan Takayama, have furnished illuminating commentary on the poems and arranged them as to facilitate comparison between the Chinese and Japanese Zen traditions. The poems themselves, rendered in clear and powerful English, offer a unique approach to Zen Buddhism, “compared with which,” as Lucien Stryk writes, “the many disquisitions on its meaning are as dust to living earth. We see in these poems, as in all important religious art, East or West, revelations of spiritual truths touched by a kind of divinity.”   “One of the most intimate and dynamic books yet published on Zen.” —Sanford Goldstein, Arizona Quarterly

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