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  The Poetry of W B Yeats

  WB Yeats

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  William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland on 13th June 1865. 
   
  His early years moved between Ireland and England. By his mid-teens he was writing but those works were described as ‘entirely Un-Irish’.  With Ernest Rhys he founded the Rhymers Club. Based at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street it’s best described as a drinking club for performing poets.  Yeats later cited them as ‘The Tragic Generation’.  By now Yeats was writing and publishing poetry and stories that were profoundly based in Irish folklore.   
   
  Yeats is perhaps best described as Ireland’s national poet in addition to being one of the major twentieth-century literary figures of the English tongue. He represents the ‘Romantic poet of modernism,’ with an extraordinary style created from the outward emphasis on the expression of emotions and the extensive use of symbolism, imagery and allusions.  
   
  In 1923 his fame was brought to an even wider audience when he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.  
   
  His personal life was driven by his many relationships in love and by his great interest in oriental mysticism and occultism.  Yeats also wrote prose and drama and, as an ardent Nationalist, established himself as a spokesman of the Irish cause and served as an Irish senator for two terms.  
   
  W B Yeats died at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France, on 28th January 1939.  He was 73. 
   
  In modern times his contribution to literary modernism and to Irish nationalism remains incontestable.  His sumptuous poetry elegantly envelopes the reader in a world very few can articulate but all know well.  A legacy for everyone 
  1 - The Poetry of W B Yeats - An Introduction 
  2 - A Man Young and Old - I - First Love by W B Yeats 
  3 - A Man Young and Old - II - Human Dignity by W B Yeats 
  4 - A Man Young and Old - III - The Mermaid by W B Yeats 
  5 - A Man Young and Old - IV - The Death of the Hare by W B Yeats 
  6 - A Man Young and Old - V - The Empty Cup by W B Yeats 
  7 - A Man Young and Old - VI - His Memories 
  8 - A Man Young and Old - VII - The Friends of His Youth 
  9 - A Man Young and Old - VIII - Summer and Spring 
  10 - A Man Young and Old - IX - The Secrets of the Old 
  11 - A Man Young and Old - X - His Wildness 
  12 - A Man Young and Old - XI - From 'Oedipus at Colonus' 
  13 - A Cradle Song by W B Yeats 
  14 - A Prayer for My Daughter by W B Yeats 
  15 - The Mother of God by W B Yeats 
  16 - Among School Children by W B Yeats 
  17 - The Stolen Child by W B Yeats 
  18 - Long-Legged Fly by W B Yeats 
  19 - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers by W B Yeats 
  20 - The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W B Yeats 
  21 - The Wild Swans at Coole by W B Yeats 
  22 - Leda and the Swan by W B Yeats 
  23 - The Cat and the Moon by W B Yeats 
  24 - Those Dancing Days Are Gone by W B Yeats 
  25 - Imitated From The Japanese by W B Yeats 
  26 - All Things Can Tempt Me by W B Yeats 
  27 - A Statesman's Holiday by W B Yeats 
  28 - The Fascination of What's Difficult by W B Yeats 
  29 - A Drinking Song by W B Yeats 
  30 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats 
  31 - He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace by W B Yeats 
  32 - The Song of Wandering Aengus by W B Yeats 
  33 - The Travail of Passion by W B Yeats 
  34 - The Falling of Leaves by W B Yeats 
  35 - He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved by W B Yeats 
  36 - Down by the Salley Gardens by W B Yeats 
  37 - Quarrel in Old Age by W B Yeats 
  38 - The Secret Rose by W B Yeats 
  39 - Under Saturn by W B Yeats 
  40 - To Ireland In The Coming Times by W B Yeats 
  41 - I Am of Ireland by W B Yeats 
  42 - The Second Coming by William Bu

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  Enda Walsh Plays: One (NHB...

  Enda Walsh

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  The first eight astonishing plays by Enda Walsh.
  Bursting onto the theatre scene in 1996 with Disco Pigs, Enda Walsh has delivered a sustained fusillade of strikingly original plays ever since. This volume, with a Foreword by the author, contains:
  The Ginger Ale Boy (Walsh's first play, previously unpublished)
  Disco Pigsmisterman
  bedboundThe Small Things
  Chatroom
  Also included are two previously unpublished short plays, How These Desperate Men Talk (2004) and Lynndie's Gotta Gun (2005).

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  I'm Rising -...

  Michelle G. Stradford

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  Take back your Power, your Glorious and Rise! 
  “I'm Rising: Determined. Confident. Powerful.” takes the reader on an emotive journey of empowerment through life’s countless triumphs and tribulations. 
  Above all else, it inspires one to tap into their infinite potential so they can overcome any obstacle that appears on their unique path. Through heartfelt storytelling, alliterative diction, and soul-awakening themes, this empathic poetess instills each reader with an unwavering sense of perseverance, courage, and compassion. 
  This uplifting book is more than a mere collection of poetic musings, it serves as a powerful tool of self-love and personal transformation that belongs on every fierce soul’s bookshelf—or better yet, on their nightstand for their daily dose of inspiration each time they rise.

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  Dynamo

  Luke Samuel Yates

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  What is Dynamo? It is the first full-length collection by an extraordinarily entertaining and exhilarating poet. Over the course of this book, things break down, start again, light up, get stuck. Relationships stagnate, mountains and seas diminish, White nationalists fall over in Blackpool, and a wealthy couple's house disappears one day, leaving them surrounded by their appliances, tanned and eating an egg.
  I'm always listening out for a new poet who can take the deceptively effortless, witty yet ultimately serious chops of the New York School, make it work for this generation and bring the whole thing in to land just outside a British city, losing nothing in transit. And God it's been worth the wait. This is a poetry of exquisite timing, with some of the most satisfying last lines I've ever read. Yates can take an everyday domestic detail and make it sparkle with the mystery of a Raedecker painting. – Luke Kennard

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  The Missing Months

  Lachlan Mackinnon

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  Many of the poems in The Missing Months occupy the strange hiatus afforded by lockdown. They look forward as well as back, toying with possible futures, enthused by utopian dreams or fearing cultural and bodily entropy. They celebrate and mourn the lives of friends and relatives, captivated by carefully tended images from the past. Lockdown's 'missing months' in the world of a four-year-old granddaughter are laid down and remembered for her. Familiar objects - a park bench, stones, grass, stars, windows - are reanimated. This poetry of imaginative journeying 'stretches/Banks on a slope of air and turns' like the heron it watches. Between the crackle of radio signals and rain, the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam and the American singer Miranda Lambert, here is a poet in search of points of reference, the 'bright fresh leaves' of sunlight among the ruins.

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  Certain Shelter

  Abbie Kiefer

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  Abbie Kiefer’s debut collection is a clear-eyed portrait of an aging mill town and a larger reflection on memory, making, and the significance of home. What sources of solace and stability remain amid the ruins of industry, after the death of a parent, while raising children in an uncertain time alongside the ghosts of the past? How do we reconcile ourselves to the inevitability of change and protect what remains? A transcendent exploration of breakdown and renewal, of vulnerability and endurance, of personal and communal responses to loss, this book takes up the question of how to find shelter and make one’s way in an altered world. 

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