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  Poetry Hour The - Volume 17

  Pope Alexander, GK Chesterton,...

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  Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words.  The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one.  But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition.  Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. 
   
  Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children’s textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today.  
   
  Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We’ve put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations.   
   
  In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of Alexander Pope as well as themes on January, Cavalier Poets, Night and more. 
   
  All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can’t.  Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes.  Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores.  
   
  This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that.   
   
  Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey. 
   
   
  The Poetry Hour – Volume 17 
  Alexander Pope – An Introduction 
  Summer by Alexander Pope 
  Solitude by Alexander Pope 
  The Dunicad. An Extract of Book I by Alexander Pope 
  January  
  Sonnet LIX. Written at Ampton, Suffolk. January 1838 by Henry Alford 
  At the Entering of the New Year by Thomas Hardy 
  The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell 
  It is Winter by Daniel Sheehan 
  Pray, to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
  January 1795 by Mary Darby Robinson 
  The Cavalier Poets – An Introduction 
  The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley 
  Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller 
  Epigram LXV – To My Muse by Ben Jonson 
  Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell 
  Love’s End by Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury 
  Love Conquer’d by Richard Lovelace 
  To Sappho by Robert Herrick 
  Lips & Eyes by Thomas Carew 
  I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling 
  The Poetry of GK Chesterton - An Introduction 
  The Englishman by GK Chesterton 
  The Rolling English Road by GK Chesterton 
  The Convert by GK Chesterton 
  The Last Hero by GK Chesterton 
  Americanisation by GK Chesterton 
  Who Goes Home by GK Chesterton 
  The Poetry of Night - An Introduction 
  Prolong the Night by Renee Vivien 
  I Weary Tonight, I Weary by Alexander Anderson 
  Sonnet LXVI – The Night Flood Rakes by Charlotte Smith 
  A Prayer in Darkness by GK Chesterton 
  The Night by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  From The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson 
  In Drear Nighted December by John Keats 
  The Slave’s Singing at Midnight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  Sleep on Thine Eyes by Hafiz 
  John Keats – A Tribute in Verse 
  John Keats by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  The Poetry of Keats by George Meredith 
  For the Anniversary of John Keats Death by Sara Teasdale 
  The Grave of Keats by Oscar Wilde

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  Martyr! - Book Summary and Analysis

  Kaveh Akbar

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  This is a Book Summary and Analysis of the original title.
   
  Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar is a profound exploration of the complexities of faith, identity, and devotion. The poems delve into themes of sacrifice, religious ecstasy, and the paradoxes of martyrdom. Akbar's rich language and vivid imagery create a visceral experience that confronts the reader with questions about morality, spirituality, and human frailty. Through lyrical intensity, Akbar reflects on personal and collective histories, weaving together stories of devotion and resistance in the face of destruction.

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  The Urban Girl's Guide to...

  Fin Kennedy

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  Four young friends leave the city behind and head into the wilderness, but a burning secret threatens to tear their lives apart. A bittersweet comedy about life, love and friendship once school is long gone.
  Written in an ensemble storytelling style that will suit younger performance groups around the country, especially those looking for predominantly female roles.

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  The Divine Sister

  Charles Busch

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  A crumbling convent school is on the verge of insolvency, when a young postulant begins to display strange heavenly powers. And when a dashing film executive arrives to buy the rights to her story, the Reverend Mother refuses to put profits over prayer. Playwright Charles Busch made his name with genre-skewering hits like Psycho Beach Party, Die Mommie Die, and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, which L.A. Theatre Works recorded in 2007. This time around, we present Busch’s high-voltage spoof of religious melodramas, starring three of the principal players from its original 2010 Off-Broadway run. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Emily Bergl as AgnesCharles Busch as Mother SuperiorMaxwell Caulfield as Jeremy/Brother VeneriusAlison Fraser as Sister Walburga/Mrs. MacDuffieJulie Halston as Sister AcaciusJuliet Mills Mrs. Levinson/TimothyDirected by Carl Andress. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.

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  Nocturne of Remembered Spring...

  Conrad Aiken

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  Written at the height of the Great War, the poems of this volume are suffused with a sense of melancholy and tragedy.  Some of the poems (such as "1915:  The Trenches") speak directly of war-time scenes and images, but even those which don't do so are permeated with a feeling of loss and desolation occasioned by the War.  In spite of this pervading pathos, however, these poems are also filled with haunting beauty of imagery, drawn as Aiken so often does from natural images of wind, sea, and weather.   - Summary by Expatriate

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  Ek Swapnadrashta ka Romanticism...

  Saumitra Saxena

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  'Ek Swapnadrashta ka Romanticism' or 'The Romanticism of a Dreamer' is a long poem by Saumitra Saxena written in Hindi. The audiobook narrator is Harish Bhimani. The cover art is based on a paiting by Safdar Shami. 
  If we think of long-poems, Nirala's 'Ram ki Shaktipuja,' Trilochan's 'Nagai Mehra,' Muktibodh's' Andhere Mein,' 'Patkatha' by Dhumil, and 'Lukman Ali' by Saumitra Mohan at once spring to mind. You may also find long-poems by Vishnu Khare, Leeladhar Jagudi, Chandrakant Devtale, Man Bahadur Singh, and Bhagwat Rawat, but any search for the genre after them leaves you empty-handed. The present poem by Saumitra may be taken as the next page of the Hindi poetic tradition. Entering the core of the poem, one feels the poet's anxiety about the present. And what exactly is that concern? Racial violence, estrangement, loss of freedom, pillage, genocide, bloodshed in the name of religion, struggle for dominance— these are the burning issues that have not only taken hold of today's India, but the entire world. 
  These are the flames devouring natural human values like freedom, love, and sympathy. Saumitra is a dreamer who has nothing to lose but a world to gain— who yearns for peace, tranquility, and freedom for the entire humanity. He gives form to the contemporary tragedy through miniature images and pictures. The truth of today's life is not presented here through some romantic perspective, but rather through that eye for a reality in which sages like Abraham Lincoln, John Hus, and Mahatma Gandhi had to lay down their lives for the sake of freedom, love, and unity. 
  This poem, written in simple, straightforward diction, presents the blood-smeared history of human cruelty, in the backdrop of which, despite hopelessness, there is yet enough sparkle of hope to make a man stand up again. Actually, it's the quality of our native tradition which has been conveyed through a unique mode of expression. 
  -Hari Bhatnagar

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