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  Taintlessness

  Omar Albeshr

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  Step in, take a deep breath, and take this journey of words that are filled with emotions—an introspection through the complex human experience. Into a realm of love, pain, breaking and healing, all told from the perspective of a young heart's many different conditions at the most pivotal moments.  Feel as the words dance and linger, expressing intense emotions in the guise of melodic rhymes.

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  The Theogony

  Hesiod

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  The Theogony "the genealogy or birth of the gods" is a poem by Hesiod (8th – 7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed c. 730–700 BC. It is written in the Epic dialect of Ancient Greek and contains 1022 lines. 
  Hesiod's Theogony is a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells how they came to be and how they established permanent control over the cosmos. It is the first known Greek mythical cosmogony. The initial state of the universe is chaos, a dark indefinite void considered a divine primordial condition from which everything else appeared. Theogonies are a part of Greek mythology which embodies the desire to articulate reality as a whole; this universalizing impulse was fundamental for the first later projects of speculative theorizing.
  Hesiod appropriates to himself the authority usually reserved to sacred kingship. The poet declares that it is he, where we might have expected some king instead, upon whom the Muses have bestowed the two gifts of a scepter and an authoritative voice (Hesiod, Theogony 30–3), which are the visible signs of kingship. It is not that this gesture is meant to make Hesiod a king. Rather, the point is that the authority of kingship now belongs to the poetic voice, the voice that is declaiming the Theogony.

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  Belongings

  Asma Elbadawi

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  Belongings is, as it sounds, a collection of thoughts and feelings that depict the very heart of Asma's life as a British Sudanese woman. A life that contains multiple influences, expectations and juxtapositions. Her poems are raw and unfiltered – Asma holds little back in her work, covering subjects personal to her such as migration, mental health, racism and sport.
  These lines that started out as spoken pieces have finally made it to the page, to be read and savoured. Asma presents you with that which is hers. Her Belongings.

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  The Jew of Malta

  Christopher Marlowe

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  Christopher “Kit” Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William Shakespeare, he is known for his magnificent blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own untimely death. 
  The Jew of Malta (1589) is an original story of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set against a backdrop of the struggle for supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean. The Jew of Malta is considered to have been a major influence on William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. 
  The play contains a prologue in which the character Machiavel, a Senecan ghost based on Niccolò Machiavelli, introduces “the tragedy of a Jew.” (summary by Wikipedia) 
  Thomas Heywood: The well-known dramatist of the time has included Prologues and Epilogues both for the court and the Cock-Pit theatre “…making choice of you unto whom to devote it;” . (summary by David Lawrence)Cast: 
  Ferneze, as Governor of Malta and -  Lars RolanderLodowick, his son - Jay SaundersSelim Calymath, son to the Grand Seignior - Damien Tavis TomanMartin del Bosco, vice-admiral of Spain -  Michael SiroisMathias, a gentleman  -  Daniel HuttonJacomo, a friar -  Kevin VinckBarnardine, a friar -  Aaron ElliottBarabas, a wealthy Jew  -  EHehlIthamore, a slave -  Denny SayersKatharine, mother to Mathias -  GesineAbigail, daughter to Barabas -  Andrea LeeBellamira, a courtezan -  SilencePilia-Borza, a bully, attendant to Bellamira -  CM SlossonFirst Jew and First Knight - Miriam Esther GoldmanSecond Jew, Second Officer, Second Knightand Second Merchant -  Ryan DeRamosThird Jew, Slave and Carpenter -  Laurie Anne WaldenOfficer/First Officer -  Eric J. KatowitzMerchant/First Merchant -  Anna SimonMessenger -  Lucy PerryMachiavel, as Prologue Speaker -  ontheroadAnnouncer -  Jennifer Stearns 
  Audio edited by - David Lawrence

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  Microphone Showdown

  William Wordsworth

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  This is a project which will allow readers and listeners to compare the recording quality of a wide variety of recording devices. It is a sequel to another project in which readers submitted readings of a poem on a variety of portable recording devices. For this project, readers have read "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" by William Wordsworth.  (Summary by Algy Pug)

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  Franklyn: A Path of Twisting...

  Richard Cliff

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  Franklyn was born into a gritty north of England town. His expected path through life would have him live out his years in the manner of that town's baseline existence. But it wasn't to be.Perhaps he was pre-selected to break rank so that bigger dreams could be fulfilled. Whatever the prime force may have been, he was to know a different life.Perhaps, too, the corridors of our own reality are flimsier than we believe! On the other side of the wall may lie another path.  As Franklyn himself discovers, a perceived reality can be as real as reality itself.

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