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  The Century - Poems

  Éireann Lorsung

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  A meticulously detailed catalogue of ordinary people performing acts of extraordinary violence, The Century charts an awakening to structures of dominance and violence. In the tradition of witness poetry, The Century tugs apart the quotidian horrors required to perpetuate acts of violence like the Holocaust, the deployment of nuclear weapons in Japan and Iraq, American slavery and its lingering aftermath. When Éireann Lorsung writes of death and dying, of “bodies in the fields becoming the fields,” it’s the simplicity that’s most haunting. After a fire, “some of their skin moved off of them as they ran, a very / simple melting…” But these poems don’t just witness; they also resist and serve as models for resistant lives. Pushing back against form and grammar, constructions of time and geography, Lorsung traces decades of technological, geopolitical, and cultural shifts through generations and across continents as networks of dominance continue to be stubbornly upheld.The Century is evasive but thorny, splintering in the mind. This collection is a reminder that the arrival of each new century, decade, or year brings with it an invitation to join ongoing movements of resistance, air pockets of hope in the waters that we all swim or drown in.  

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  The Poetry of Alice Meynell -...

  Alice Meynell

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  Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson was born on 22nd September 1847 in Barnes, London. 
   
  Her family travelled widely meaning that Alice’s early years were spent around England, Switzerland, and France before finally settling in Italy. Her dedicated interest in religion brought a conversion to the Catholic faith.  Much of that viewpoint is seen in her first published volume in 1875, ‘Preludes’. 
   
  In 1876 she married Wilfred Meynell, the newspaper publisher and editor and together they set up and published a number of magazines as well as publishing the initial works of several poets including Francis Thompson. 
   
  Despite a hectic lifestyle of her own poetry and essays together with the family business she gave birth to eight children. Her health though was erratic, and she was frequently incapacitated by illness including migraines and depressions. 
   
  As the new century dawned she along with many other artists began to question the colonial needs of Empire with its segregation and oppression. In particular she sought and gained a role in the Women’s Suffrage movement as it attempted to obtain greater equality for women.  
   
  Today Alice is often overlooked for the quality and stature of her poetry which, during her career brought serious official consideration. She was twice considered but passed over for the post of poet laureate after the deaths of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Alfred Austin. 
   
  Alice Meynell died on 27th November 1922. She is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in London. 
  1 - The Poetry of Alice Meynell - An Introduction 
  2 - The Poet to His Childhood by Alice Meynell 
  3 - To A Poet by Alice Meynell 
  4 - A Poet of One Mood by Alice Meynell 
  5 - The Modern Poet - A Song of Derivations by Alice Meynell 
  6 - The Poet to Nature by Alice Meynell 
  7 - In February by Alice Meynell 
  8 - Cradle-Song At Twilight by Alice Meynell 
  9 - Song. As the Inhastening Tide Doth Roll by Alice Meynell 
  10 - Song of the Day to the Night by Alice Meynell 
  11 - Soeur Monique. A Rondeau by Couperin by Alice Meynell 
  12 - To A Lost Melody by Alice Meynell 
  13 - Singers To Come by Alice Meynell 
  14 - A Shattered Lute by Alice Meynell 
  15 - Regrets by Alice Meynell 
  16 - Parted by Alice Meynell 
  17 - After A Parting by Alice Meynell 
  18 - Sonnet. Thoughts in Separation by Alice Meynell 
  19 - In Autumn by Alice Meynell 
  20 - My Heart Shall Be Thy Garden by Alice Meynell 
  21 - Your Own Fair Youth by Alice Meynell 
  22 - The Lover Urges the Better Thrift by Alice Meynell 
  23 - To The Beloved by Alice Meynell 
  24 - The Love of Narcissus by Alice Meynell 
  25 - An Unmarked Festival by Alice Meynell 
  26 - A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Age by Alice Meynell 
  27 - San Lorenzo Giustiniani's Mother by Alice Meynell 
  28 - Maternity by Alice Meynell 
  29 - The Modern Mother by Alice Meynell 
  30 - Summer In England 1914 by Alice Meynell 
  31 - The Lady of the Lambs by Alice Meynell 
  32 - Builders of Ruins by Alice Meynell 
  33 - The Lady Poverty by Alice Meynell 
  34 - At Night by Alice Meynell 
  35 - Renouncement by Alice Meynell 
  36 - To the Beloved Dead - A Lament by Alice Meynell 
  37 - Christ in The Universe by Alice Meynell 
  38 - Veni Creator by Alice Meynell

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  Dynamics of Distancing in...

  Nadia Anwar

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  Nadia Anwar presents a compelling reading framework for the study and analysis of selected post-independence Nigerian dramas, using the conceptual parameters of metatheatre, a theatrical strategy which foregrounds the process of play-making by breaking the dramatic illusion. She argues that distancing, as a function of metatheatre, creates a balanced theatrical experience and environment in terms of the emotive and cognitive levels of reception of a particular performance. 
  
  Anwar's book is the first in-depth study of the concept of metatheatre with reference to Nigerian drama including Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman (1975) and King Baabu (2002), Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi (1971) and Hopes of the Living Dead (1988), Femi Osofisan's The Chattering and the Song (1977) and Women of Owu (2006), Esiaba Irobi's Hangmen Also Die (1989), and Stella 'Dia Oyedepo's A Play That Was Never to Be (1998). 
  
  The perspectives of Bertolt Brecht (1936), Thomas J. Scheff (1963), and other theoreticians of dramatic distancing and metatheatre are used in the analyses and, where required, challenged through appropriate contextual and theoretical adjustments. 
  
  The book is the first attempt to illustrate how Brechtian approach to the display and generation of emotions can be revised through Scheff's model of emotional balance.

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  Bestiary - An Anthology of...

  Stephen Mitchell

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  In this treasury of passionate and humorous encounters with animals, Stephen Mitchell has collected animal poems from many ages and cultures. Included here are excerpts from ancient masterpieces like The Hymn to the Sun by Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, The Book of Job, as well as haikus by Basho and Issa. Additional works included here are poems by Christopher Smart, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Gerald Manley Hopkins. With some of the best animal poems ever written, this compilation will delight and satisfy animal lovers everywhere.

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  Chameleon Days - The camouflaged...

  K. L. Loveley

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  “Be seen, not heard,” is what her Mother said. However, for this poet, her Mother’s words fell on deaf ears. K.L. Loveley is a woman unleashed and her words will be heard. Love, romance, pleasure, desire, loss, betrayal, anger, and pain. K.L. Loveley explores her changing and sometimes camouflaged emotions within her debut poetry collection. “Go places, seek pleasure, wine, dine, and dance.Defer gratification for a fine romance.Blend into the crowd, not noticed, not seen.Camouflage complete; a chameleon’s dream.”

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  Mystery

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Mystery by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 12, 2012,Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African-American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Much of his popular work in his lifetime used a Negro dialect, which helped him become one of the first nationally-accepted African-American writers. Much of his writing, however, does not use dialect; these more traditional poems have become of greater interest to scholars. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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