Publisher: The Poetry Business
Varied in subject matter, these poems are clearly in the control of a singular voice. There is wonderful use of imagery throughout and surprising metaphor in abundance, in gentle and inventive poems that explores ideas of love, home, family and loss.– Hannah Lowe
Bleak, funny and excruciatingly accurate, Sex with a Stranger examines what it is to be in your twenties, lonely, hollow and uncertain. Adam meets Grace in a club. They go back to hers. Earlier that day, his girlfriend watches as he prepares for his big night out. 'A dazzling achievement' - Independent 'Wonderfully frank, true and tender.... extraordinarily touching' - Telegraph 'Skilfully constructed, painful-to-watch but very funny... a talent on the move' - Whatsonstage.comShow book
Eric has a miserable childhood in a violent, drunken family in a tough London housing estate. He compensates by looking for perfection. For him, this means worldly success in a diplomatic career as far away from his childhood as possible. His single-minded ambition comes at a price. It makes him leave his childhood sweetheart Katie behind, since he knows that she can’t keep up with him. Their ways part. Eric marries an upper-class woman and becomes an Ambassador. However, Katie and he never quite lose touch. After his wife’s death Eric and Katie come together again. There is action and pace, fun and sadness, a huge variety of life experiences and a sense of providence and redemption.Show book
Expanding on themes present in Blood/Sugar, James Byrne refuses one defining aesthetic or mode of writing in his work, instead choosing to fluctuate between the lyric, experimental, confessional and the political. These are poems that explore aspects of childhood, social activism and satire. There are correspondences with existing texts; Philomela finds herself in Nazi-occupied Paris during the Second World War and the villanelle re-tracks Rimbaud through London. Elsewhere Byrne seeks to defy Robert Graves' notion that there is "no poetry in money", preferring to rally against issues of austerity and hierarchical power in society. White Coins rewards the reader with a nomadic poetry for the 21st century; one that mingles personal, social and historical spaces whilst celebrating, at all times, linguistic versatility and innovation. Also available as an eBook from Amazon.Show book
Charles Dickens' 1854 novel opens with the philosophy of education espoused by the eminently practical Mr. Gradgrind, who prizes "facts and calculations." He raises his children, most prominently Louisa and Tom, to eschew imagination and emotion and embrace order and reason. The results are disastrous: Louisa marries out of duty to the supposed self-made man Mr. Bounderby, while Tom grows up dissolute, ultimately commits theft and blames it on an unfortunate laborer, Stephen Blackpool. Set in the fictional Coketown, a mill town in the north of England, Dickens' novel satirizes capitalism, social mobility, class stratification, and Utilitarianism. This dramatic reading of the novel features a full cast of LibriVox volunteers, who lend their voices to Dickens' vibrant comic characters. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) CastNarrator: Bob NeufeldMr. Gradgrind: Marty KrisSissy Jupe: J L RaimundoBitzer: mbGentleman: Tom CrawfordLouisa Gradgrind: Arielle LipshawMr. Bounderby: Andy MinterMrs. Gradgrind: Beth ThomasTom Gradgrind: Max KorlingeMr. E. W. B. Childers: David LawrenceMaster Kidderminster: Elizabeth KlettMr. Sleary: Ron AltmanMrs. Sparsit: Elizabeth KlettStephen Blackpool: Nigel BoydellRachael: Karen SavageMrs. Blackpool: Bev J. StevensMrs. Pegler: Sally McConnellJames Harthouse: Algy PugSlackbridge: John SteigerwaldVoice 1: syllyVoice 2: J L RaimundoJane Gradgrind: GoldfishWaiter: Nigel BoydellMan: Algy PugClown: Bev J. StevensText prepared by Arielle Lipshaw and Elizabeth KlettAudio edited by Elizabeth KlettShow book
The third month of our Gregorian calendar. Spring begins to delicately change the land. Colour and light begin their inexorable march to bathe the landscape around us. Temperatures subtly begin to rise, nature welcomes warmth. 50 poems from the pens of our remarkable poets including Yeats, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Housman, Lowell and a plethora of others come lines and verse on the wonder of the landscape, its fauna and wildlife that amplify our moods, feelings, thoughts and desires on this month of March. 1 - Fifty Shades of March - An Introduction 2 - March - An Ode by Algernon Charles Swinburne 3 - To My Sister by Wiliam Wordsworth 4 - March by A E Housman 5 - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth 6 - To Daffodils by Robert Herrick 7 - A Shropshire Lad XXIX - The Lent Lilly by A E Housman 8 - To a Daisy Found Blooming March 7th by John Hartley 9 - Extract of Spring Day by Amy Lowell 10 - The Year's at the Spring by Robert Browning 11 - March Written by William Morris 12 - Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth 13 - Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins 14 - Very Early Spring by Katherine Mansfield 15 - In March by Archibald Lampman 16 - An Extract of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 17 - The Life of Love - Spring by Khalil Gibran 18 - Again Comes the Spring by Hafiz 19 - Written in March by William Wordsworth 20 - Sonnet XLIII. The Malvern Hills, March 12th 1835 by Henry Alford 21 - Monadnock in Early Spring by Amy Lowell 22 - Stella's Birthday, March 13th 1727 by Jonathan Swift 23 - To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time by Countee Cullen 24 - March by John Payne 25 - A Light Exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson 26 - A March Minstrel by Alfred Austin 27 - A Little Madness in the Spring by Emily Dickinson 28 - Spring by William Morris 29 - To March by Emily Dickinson 30 - Spring's Bedfellow by William Morris 31 - Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale 32 - Spring Showers by James Thomson 33 - A March Snow by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 34 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone by Walt Whitman 35 - Slow Spring by Katharine Tynan 36 - To Spring by William Blake 37 - Spring 1916 by Isaac Rosenberg 38 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson 39 - A Twilight in Middle March by Francis Ledwidge 40 - The Spring by Thomas Carew 41 - March Evening by Amy Lowell 42 - In the Green and Gallant Spring by Robert Louis Stevenson 43 - A March Day in London by Amy Levy 44 - Written In London on 19th March, 1796 by Matilda Betham 45 - Letter From Town; on a Grey Morning in March by D H Lawrence 46 - Spring Wind in London by Katherine Mansfield 47 - The Message of the March Wind by William Morris 48 - Three Songs of Shattering by Edna St Vincent Millay 49 - My Little March Girl by Paul Laurence Dunbar 50 - These, I, Singing in Spring by Walt Whitman 51 - The Shepherd's Calendar - March by John ClareShow book
A lyrically bardic first collection from accomplished poet, Sarah Lipton-Sidibeh; Spanning the ages across Britain's colonial landscape, Sidibeh explores not only the body, but the body politic. With unflinching intimacy, Sidibeh illustrates the vagaries of ageing and loving in a body caught by endless possibilities and boundaries. Through the same critical eyes, she undresses Britain's colonial past and criminal present, laying bare society's ills and inequities; A comprehensive collection of humanity's collective struggles and radiant joys, The First Collection is an ambitious accomplishment.Show book
