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  The Complaint (NHB Modern Plays)

  Nick Whitby

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  Nick Whitby's chilling play presents a Kafkaesque world where nothing is quite as it seems, and where office politics can lead to unlawful questioning, torture and even murder…
  Afra has decided to make a complaint. She is certain that her grievance is legitimate: she is perfectly clear about her rights. And she has no intention of giving up until she has some satisfaction.
  'some great lines, surprising twists and turns... packs a punch' - The Guardian blog (reader reviews)
  'Scarily plausible… a thought-provoking ninety minutes of witty drama' - Monkey Matters Theatre Reviews

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  Vindication - poems from six women

  Cherry Potts

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  The third of our #WomenVote100 Anthologies:a showcase for poets Arachne has previously published in anthologies, giving an opportunity to explore their writing in greater depth.
  
  These are poems made of myth and family, origins and anger, journeys and home: witty, clever, beautiful and sometimes harsh.
  
  Whilst not directly reflecting on the experience of women fighting for the vote, the concerns of
  
  women are foremost and are passionately addressed.
  
  My own sex, I hope, will excuse me,
  
  if I treat them like rational creatures,
  
  instead of flattering their fascinating
  
  graces, as if they were in perpetual
  
  childhood, unable to stand alone.
  
  From Vindication by Anne Macaulay, a found poem based on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft.

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  William Blake - The Epics

  William Blake

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  William Blake was born on 28th November 1757 in London to parents of modest income that could only afford a basic education of reading and writing although he did attend a drawing school for a short time.  His artistic skill was apparent relatively early and at the age of 14 he stopped working in his father’s hosiery shop and became an apprentice engraver.  This apprenticeship finished when he was 21 and at 25 he married Catherine Boucher.  He taught her to read and write and  together in 1789 they published Songs of Innocence with text and engravings printed from copper plates and illustrations finished by hand with watercolours.  It did not sell well and throughout his life he remained largely unrecognised often on the verge of poverty.  This led to a deep depression for many years and he was often considered mad by his contemporaries.  His creativity and imagination with its undercurrents of mysticism, spiritualism and philosophy are apparent in this selection of poems and whilst classed as a seminal figure in the Romantic Age it wasn’t until the late 19th century that his work was recognised.  The 20th century saw an even  greater appreciation of his poetry with Blake’s voyage beyond  the rational and material chiming with the Beat poets, Dylan, Van Morrison and Jim Morrison of the band the Doors , named after Blake’s phrase Doors of Perception from his poem Marriage of Heaven and Hell.  Further acclaim has been attributed to him from many scholars of art, psychology and of course literature.   His poems have inspired composers such as Vaughn Williams, Britten and Taverner  and Jerusalem a hymn still sung today.  Blake’s vivid and intense work is still relevant to all to this day and he is recognised as a saint in the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica.  William Blake died on 12th August 1827 and in 1957 a memorial was erected at Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey.

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  Full Woman Fleshly Apple Hot...

  Pablo Neruda

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  Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon offers fresh interpretations of the most widely read and loved poet of the 20th century—             translated and read by a master of poetic expressiveness. Out of the great profusion of Neruda's poetry, Stephen Mitchell has selected forty-nine poems and brought them to life for a new generation of listeners. These are poems of a happy man, deeply fulfilled in his sexuality, at home in the world, in love with life and its infinite particular forms, and overflowing with the joy of language. These large-hearted, generous poems resonant with a humor that is rare in poetry.

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  Fifty Shades of Nature - 50 of...

  John Clare, Gerard Manley...

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  Our senses revel in the incomparable majesty of the work of Mother Nature.  The structure of the landscape, the multi-coloured mantle of trees and fauna, the myriad animals that wander and inhabit this glorious Earth. Nature conducts symphonies of sound as her world goes from day into the inky embrace of night. 
   
  Our ears and eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways; the soft drizzle of rain from soft grey clouds, a wave caressing the shore and the ravenous colours of a departing sunset.  
   
  Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere and for everyone.  Indeed, whenever we look and listen to the vastness of Nature’s beauty she can placate our anger and soothe our pain, despite our knowledge of her destructive forces that create myriad tragedies.  Still her vistas can energise us, feed our hearts and souls and prompt us to muse on the mysteries of life and death. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of Nature - An Introduction 
  2 - from Song Of Myself by Walt Whitman 
  3 - Nature's Hymn to the Deity by John Clare 
  4 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare 
  5 - Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth 
  6 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  7 - An April Afternoon by Alexander Anderson 
  8 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge 
  9 - In May by William Henry Davies 
  10 - The Darkling Thrush By Thomas Hardy 
  11 - The Thrush's Nest by John Clare 
  12 - To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  13 - Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats 
  14 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford 
  15 - Nature, The Gentlest Mother by Emily Dickinson 
  16 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman 
  17 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
  18 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
  19 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 
  20 - In Autumn Moonlight by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  21 - Daylight and Moonlight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  22 - At the Sunrise, 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  23 - After Sunset by William Allingham 
  24 - Across the Red Sky by Katherine Mansfield 
  25 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew 
  26 - Evening by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  27 - I Have Heard the Sunset Song of the Birches by Stephen Crane 
  28 - Trees by Joyce Kilmer 
  29 - Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  30 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 
  31 - Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  32 - Nature's Lady by George Eliot 
  33 - Seashore by Tagore 
  34 - The Dark Blue Sea by Byron 
  35 - By the Sea by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  36 - The Little Waves of Breffney by Eva Gore-Booth 
  37 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield 
  38 - The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W B Yeats 
  39 - The Cloud on the Mountain by Alama Iqbal 
  40 - Sonnet 33 - Full  Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen by William Shakespeare 
  41 - Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying by A E Housman 
  42 - The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  43 - Ode Written on the First of December by Robert Southey 
  44 - Winters Naked Wood by Daniel Sheehan 
  45 - Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  46 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  47 - from The Happy Farmer by Iolo Morganwg 
  48 - The Calf by Thomas Hardy 
  49 - To A Mouse by Robert Burns 
  50 - Snake by D H Lawrence 
  51 - The Tyger by William Blake

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  Fifty Shades of Summer - 50 of...

  Sara Teasdale, Rudyard Kipling,...

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  Nature loosens her limbs, increases her ambition. Summer’s work is intense with colour, she paints with a brighter light.  The hours of night diminish, quickly shrink. She has no need for rest but a yearning to work.  Vibrant swathes of shooting, pulsing colour almost overwhelm. Her tempo is beyond our awed imagination.   
   
  Inspired, the air, the sea, the parching earth bring elemental strength.  Summer storms, forest fires. The endless blue of sky, of ocean water will not still her work. Mistress of all. Our poets merely the inky pens of her will. 
   
  In fifty poems we take you on their inspiring journey, reflecting on the miracle of summer. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of Summer - An Introduction 
  02 - Summer by Alexander Pope 
  03 - Summer Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  04 - June by William Cullen Bryant 
  05 - A June Tide Echo by Amy Levy 
  06 - June. A Tale by William Cowper 
  07 - There is a June When Corn is Cut by Emily Dickinson 
  08 - Summer Dawn by William Morris 
  09 - All in June by William Henry Davies 
  10 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell 
  11 - The Idlers Calender - Twelve Sonnets for the Months - June by Wilford Scawen Blunt 
  12 - June Night by Sara Teasdale 
  13 - June at Woodruff by James Whitcomb Riley 
  14 - Dusk in June by Sara Teasdale 
  15 - Between the Dusk of Summer by William Ernest Henley 
  16 - A June Night by Emma Lazarus 
  17 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  18 - Summer by Christina Rossetti 
  19 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman 
  20 - On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats 
  21 - Four Songs for Four Seasons by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  22 - Answer July by Emily Dickinson 
  23 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford 
  24 - London in July by Amy Levy 
  25 - July 9th 1872 by Abram Joseph Ryan 
  26 - Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  27 - A Man Young and Old - Summer and Spring by William Butler Yeats 
  28 - Written in July by Samuel Rogers 
  29 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen 
  30 - Summer in the South by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  31 - The Longest Day by William Wordsworth 
  32 - Summer Evening by John Clare 
  33 - Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant 
  34 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
  35 - Summer Night by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  36 - Sonnet XVIII - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day by William Shakespeare 
  37 - The Winds Tidings in August 1870 by Augusta Davies Webster 
  38 - August by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  39 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
  40 - August by James Whitcomb Riley 
  41 - An August Midnight by Thomas Hardy 
  42 - From Piccadilly in August by John Freeman 
  43 - Memorials of a Tour in Scotland August 1803 by William Wordsworth 
  44 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 
  45 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley 
  46 - An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay 
  47 - Fair Summer Drops From Summer's Last Will And Testament by Thomas Nashe 
  48 - Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale 
  49 - Summer by Kahlil Gibran 
  50 - Summer is Ended by Christina Rossetti 
  51 - L' Envoi (An Extract) by Rudyard Kipling

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