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  Liberty Hall

  Michael O'Loughlin

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  Michael O'Loughlin was seven years old when the Irish trade union movement replaced its headquarters, Liberty Hall – the starting point of the 1916 Rising – with Ireland's first skyscraper. This bold, seventeen-storey Liberty Hall expressed an aspiration towards the modernity which its builders envisaged as the birthright of future generations. Since then, as one of Dublin's most iconic buildings, Liberty Hall has cast a personal and political light on the lives of citizens passing below, and formed the backdrop to O'Loughlin's earliest childhood memories.
  In this remarkable new book – a highly original fusion of poetry, visual images and prose memoirs – Liberty Hall becomes both a real and imaginary space, a physical building and a state of mind in which to be free; a place where the boundaries between verbal and visual, poetry and prose, past and present, city and suburb, local and global, all become fluid. It is a book of numerous journeys: the ritualised crossing of the Liffey from North to South and back again; travels around European cities; and into O'Loughlin's own family history in the first difficult century of the Irish state. He explores the emotional weather through memory, cinema and architecture, arriving in the end at Liberty Hall.

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  The Price of Scarlet - Poems

  Brianna Noll

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  A debut collection of poetry combining the scientific and the fantastic with Japanese culture. A honeycomb long vacated by honeybees still possesses an “echo of the swarm, / a lingering song.” Living things are made and make themselves: “My bones came first. / Like long needles, / they knitted muscle / and tendon / and tissue and skin. / Filled themselves / with marrow.” In her debut collection, Brianna Noll fuses the scientific and fantastic, posing probing questions that explore the paradoxes of experience. Interweaving themes of creation, art, and nature, the poet gives voice to animate and inanimate figures such as woolly mammoths, star-nosed moles, cells, mylar balloons, and puzzle boxes. Her vivid poems obscure the line between what is literal and what is figurative. The result is alchemic and ethereal—each verse intricately layered with sharp observation as well as emotional and intellectual exploration and questioning. Collectively, the poems draw significantly on Japanese culture and language in their imagery, with cultural nuances and implications embedded in words and expressions. They tend to be tied, not to subjects, but to ways of seeing and considering the world. Noll’s lyrical voice reflects a curious and imaginative approach that results in tight poems, typically enjambed, which build together into a thoughtful collection. Her work offers ways of seeing and considering the world that exceed our lived experience, begging the reader to consider how far we are willing to go when faced with roadblocks, doubts, and uncertainties.Named one of the best books of 2017 by the Chicago Review of Books Praise for The Price of Scarlet “Brianna Noll’s vivid, haunting collection contains poetry wide-ranging and deep, with a brilliance reminiscent of Marianne Moore, and a similar interest in creation.” ―Lisa Williams, author of Women Reading to the Sea and Gazelle in the House "Brianna Noll is on the find-out committee. Like an Emily Dickinson for the twenty-first century, she rules out nothing. These quiet, powerful poems tells us that the world is connected, that all we need to see those connections is what Noll has in abundance: openness, patience, and an eye for beauty.” ―David Kirby, author of Get Up, Please “The Price of Scarlet doesn’t sneak up on the reader as much as it swallows the reader whole, pushes us out at the other end, more erudite than upon entrance. There’s a certainty in every poem, whether she is investigating the nature of the wind or invoking the Kraken from the deep. This is a remarkable first book of poems. From the first poem to the last these solid poems feel polished to a fine gloss. Read The Price of Scarlet, it will intoxicate you.” ―Today's Book of Poetry

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  Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose

  Various Various

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  A collection of prose and poetry written principally in the 18th Century. These works of world literature are written in the English language or are in English translation. (Summary by Alan Davis Drake) 
   
  NOTE: Poem 35, “Hills of Home,” was written around 1922 and is therefore not an 18th Century poem.

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  Select Poems

  T. S. Eliot

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  An essential collection of classic poems by the father of modernist poetry.   In the masterly cadence of T. S. Eliot’s verse, the twentieth century found its definitive poetic voice, an incredible “image of its accelerated grimace,” in the words of Eliot’s friend and mentor Ezra Pound. This twenty-four-poem volume is a rich collection of Eliot’s greatest works—including the classic “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”—all of which unveil the desires, grievances, failures, and heart of modern humanity.  This collection includes “Gerontion,” “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar,” “Sweeney Erect,” “A Cooking Egg,” “Le Directeur,” “Mélange Adultère de Tout,” “Lune de Miel,” “The Hippopotamus,” “Dans le Restaurant,” “Whispers of Immortality,” “Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service,” “Sweeney Among the Nightingales,” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Portrait of a Lady,” “Preludes,” “Rhapsody on a Windy Night,” “Morning at the Window,” “The Boston Evening Transcript,” “Aunt Helen,” “Cousin Nancy,” “Mr. Apollinax,” “Hysteria,” “Conversation Galante,” and “La Figlia Che Piange.”  This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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  The Poetry of Dogs

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning,...

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  Man’s best friend. An always faithful ally. 
   
  Whether the dog is domesticated as a pet and there to enjoy life with a family or as a work-dog herding sheep, helping to hunt, police or guard, the dog has proved time and time again to have many invaluable uses.   
   
  They come in all shapes and sizes from sought after breeds to lowly mongrels each with an array of qualities that give them distinct personalities.   
   
  From earliest times dogs have been able to find a unique place fulfilling the needs of their keepers and often there is equal devotion from master to servant.  A dog’s life no longer has to have negative connotations as so many pooches are loved, extravagantly fed, groomed, petted and pawed over, all perhaps more than our fellow man.   
   
  Dogs were even worshipped as deities in Mesopotamian times and across several cultures and civilisations including Hindu, Chinese and Greek, they are the helpers, the watchers or guardians of sacred or sensitive sites.  
   
  Between then and now poets have written verse, both serious and humorous, in attempts to keep a poetic track both of feelings and as a tribute to our four-legged friends and their adventures. 
  1 - The Poetry of Dogs - An Introduction 
  2 - A Friendly Welcome by Lord Byron 
  3 - A Popular Personage At Home by Thomas Hardy 
  4 - The Power of the Dog by Rudyard Kiping 
  5 - Verse for a Certain Dog by Dorothy Parker 
  6 - The Best Friend by Meribah Abbott 
  7 - The Joy of a Dog by Edgar Albert Guest 
  8 - Dog by Harold Munro 
  9 - My Comforter by Anonymous 
  10 - Four Feet. 'The Woman in His Life' by Rudyard Kipling 
  11 - The Dog and His Master by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 
  12 - Little Lost Pup by Arthur Guiterman 
  13 - A Little Dog That Wags His Tail by Emily Dickinson 
  14 - The Hairy Dog by Herbert Asquith 
  15 - Dogs and Weather by Winifred Welles 
  16 - Incident. Charactristic of a Favourite Dog Which Belonged to a Friend of the Author by William Wordsworth 
  17 - Confessions of a Glutton by Don Marquis 
  18 - The Fable of the Shepherd and Wolf by John Gay 
  19 - On a Spaniel Called 'Beau', Killing a Young Bird by William Cowper 
  20 - Beau's Reply by William Cowper 
  21 - Contentment by Burges Johnson wav 
  22 - The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog by Anonymous 
  23 - The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat by Eugene Field 
  24 - How the Feud Started by Arthur Guiterman 
  25 - Tray by Robert Browning 
  26 - The Dog and the Water Lily. No Fable by William Cowper 
  27 - The Irish Greyhound by Katherine Phillips 
  28 - The Fable of the Mastiff by John Gay 
  29 - The Dog in the Manger by Aphra Behn 
  30 - Towser, A True Tale, 20th July 1806 by Robert Tannahill 
  31 - The Dog of St Bernard's by Caroline Fry Wilson 
  32 - Sonnet - To Tartar, A Terrier Beauty by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 
  33 - Tobias's Dog by Mary Howitt 
  34 - I Started Early – Took my Dog  by Emily Dickinson 
  35 - Canis Major by Robert Frost 
  36 - Man and Dog by Edward Thomas 
  37 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell 
  38 - So This Is How I Turned into a Dog by Vladamir Mayakovsky 
  39 - The Dogs by Arthur Symons 
  40 - To a Black Greyhound by Julian Grenfell 
  41 - An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith 
  42 - The Dog Tupman by Stella Benson 
  43 - Upon His Spaniel Tracy by Robert Herrick 
  44 - To Rollo by Kenneth Grahame 
  45 - Ruby by Edward Lear 
  46 - To Flush, My Dog by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  47 - Kaiser Dead by Matthew Arnold 
  48 - Epitaph to a Dog by Lord Byron 
  49 - Last Words To A Dumb Friend by Thomas Hardy

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  A Violent Spectacle - Terrorism...

  Tara Downs

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  Terrorism has long been a part of Spanish history, although the 1990s and early 21st century brought some changes in terms of who committed the attacks – and how. Other changes that took place at this time include the increasing openness about terrorism in theatre. What is it about this time period that led to the new ways of discussing and approaching violence/terrorism? Was it more frequent – or simply less covert? 
  
  This book examines the intersection of violence and theatre in Spain, in addition to the role this cultural combination plays on the identity and quotidian experience of the Spanish people, through the study of dramas by contemporary playwrights such as Jordi Galceran, Sergi Belbel, and more.

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