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  Swive [Elizabeth] (NHB Modern...

  Ella Hickson

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  'My mother seduced a man so successfully that he altered the constitutional history of this country.'
  Elizabeth I is the only unmarried woman to have ever ruled England. And she reigned for forty-four years. Mastermind. Seductress. Survivor.
  Created by award-winning writer Ella Hickson and director Natalie Abrahami, Swive [Elizabeth] shines a light on the ways and means by which women in power negotiate patriarchal pressure in order to get their way.
  It premiered in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in December 2019.

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  Convention

  Agnes Lee

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Convention by Agnes Lee. This was the weekly poetry project for December 21st, 2008.

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  Evgenii Onegin - New Translation...

  Alexander Puschkin

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  Evgenii Onegin is best known in the West through Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin. But the original narrative poem (consisting of  389 stanzas, the form of which has become known as the ‘Pushkin sonnet’) is one of the landmarks of Russian literature. In the poem, the eponymous hero repudiates love, only to later experience the pain of rejection himself. Pushkin’s unique style proves timeless in its exploration of love, life, passion, jealousy and  the consequences of social convention. This is the first time the work has appeared on audiobook and is part of the Naxos AudioBooks intention to make the major European literary works available on audiobook.

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  Narrative Verse Volume 3

  Christina Rossetti, Henry...

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  Volume 3.  Poetry can capture the imagination in a few short lines but Narrative Verse or Poetry takes the form of telling a story whether it be simple or complex in a longer form.  Among the most ancient forms of poetry it has widespread roots through almost every culture. In Volume 3 we bring you the classics of Goblin Market - Christina Rosseti, The Wreck Of The Hesperus - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe, Morte D'Arthur – Alfred Lord Tennyson and from Horatius By Thomas Babington Maculay.  They are read for you by the renowned actors Sean Barrett and David Shaw-Parker.

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  The Poetry of George Eliot

  George Eliot

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  George Eliot, The Poetry.  Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage.  In this volume we look at the works of the Victorian Authoress and Poet George Eliot. Mary Anne Evans was born in 1819.  Her Father did not consider her a great beauty and thought her chances of marriage were slim.  He therefore invested in her education and by the time she was 16 she had boarded at several schools acquiring a good education.  With the death of her mother in 1835 she returned home to keep house for her father and siblings.  By 1850 she had moved to London to work at the Westminster Review where she published many articles and essays.  The following year Mary Anne or Marian, as she liked to be called, had met George Henry Lewes, and in 1854 they moved in together; a somewhat scandalous situation as he was already married albeit with complications.   Her view on literature had taken some time to coalescence but with the publication of parts of Scenes From A Clerical Life in 1858  she knew she wanted to be a novelist and as her 1856 titled essay “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" stated not a ‘silly woman’s one at that.  Under the pseudonym of George Eliot that we know so well Adam Bede followed in 1859 followed by the other great novels of English literature Mill On The Floss, Silas Marner and Middlemarch. Success of course meant that her real name came out but it seemed not to affect how the public devoured her novels.   Here, we look with a keen eye at her poetry. Although slim in number she is able to take a situation, scene or thought and bring us into its world with undeniable care.

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  Accessioning

  Charlotte Wetton

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  Through poems about fossilised fruit seeds and the sofa where Emily Brontë died, Wetton questions how we curate the lives of those living and dead in a pamphlet about looking, processing, and memorialising. Whether considering preserved wedding-cakes, a non-existent art exhibition or a human scream, these poems speak to the impossibility of containment and question our ability to map and categorise.
  This is a pamphlet of poems about the stories that we tell ourselves, the memories that we construct, and the ways that we value and devalue people, animals and objects alike.

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