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  Sea Change - Poems

  Jorie Graham

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  The New York Times has said that "Jorie Graham's poetry is among the most sensuously embodied and imaginative writing we have," and this new collection is a reminder of how startling, original, and deeply relevant her poetry is. In Sea Change, Graham brings us to the once-unimaginable threshold at which civilization as we know it becomes unsustainable. How might the human spirit persist, caught between its abiding love of beauty, its acknowledgment of continuing injury and damage done, and the realization that the existence of a "future" itself may no longer be assured?There is no better writer to confront such crucial matters than Jorie Graham. In addition to her recognized achievements as a poet of philosophical, aesthetic, and moral concerns, Graham has also been acknowledged as "our most formidable nature poet" (Publishers Weekly). As gorgeous and formally inventive as anything she has written, Sea Change is an essential work speaking out for our planet and the world we have known.

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  Sports Poetry

  Henry Newbolt, Sir Arthur Conan...

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  It is human nature to create and compete. Both of these are brought together in Sport. Many games began in distant eons and gradually adapted and became codified to those we know today. In this volume we celebrate, through the verse of so many well known poets, sports of all kinds. Sports for the rich sports for the poor and all manner in between. As Henry Newbolt would say ‘Play Up Play Up and Play The Game. Our collection is read by many including Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.

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  Rabbit Hole The: Book One

  Veronica Christopher

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  Book One of Veronica Christopher’s Short Story Selection Series is “The Rabbit Hole”. The Rabbit Hole is a collection of four short stories dealing with life’s tests, madness, and the unknown. 
  In “Three-Leaf Clover”, 14-year old Eve has lots of secrets to bear...but can she handle it? 
  Next, go to 1950 Korea during the war, where Ah-seong and her little brother, Jae-hyun, take refuge under a bridge and bid “Goodbye from Nogunri.” 
  Then see RJ’s battle as he wanders his afterlife “Via Tranquilla” while confronting the pinnacle moments of his life that have shaped him . 
  Finally, witness Stella’s spiral into madness and dementia as she sadly focuses on the “Cracks in the Ceiling”. 
  Book One takes you to four different worlds, four different scenarios. It’s time to go deep, folks! Take a plunge into The Rabbit Hole and go places you never would have on your own... 
  Stay tuned for Book Two: Hush- human depravity at its darkest, human willpower at its brightest...

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  Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful...

  Fadhil Al-Azzawi

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  This open work was written in defiance of the "sanctity of genre" and to raise the question of freedom of expression in writing. First published in Arabic in 1969 to great acclaim, it has been variously called a novel or a prose poem, while the author calls it an epic in prose, divided as it is into cantos. In mid-1960s Iraq such an open-ended form, in which different genres could come together and blend into each other, was difficult to even imagine. For Fadhil al-Azzawi it was the core of a new vision of life after the country's tough political experiences, especially the bloody coup of February 1963, and then abysmal defeat in the June 1967 Six-Day War. The preface to the original Arabic edition noted: "Everything in this open novel returns to itself and acquires its own particular innocence, even in language, so that the novel becomes a poem, a play, a film, a painting and a piece of music all at once without ever meaning to [. . .] It talks about itself in its own very particular way, where it says nothing specific so that it can say everything."

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  The Ice Palace - Author of the...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died.  Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained. 
   
  His intelligence and talent was recognised from an early age, with his first story, about a detective being published in the school magazine when he was just 13.   
   
  In 1913 he enrolled at Princeton but his devotion to his own literary pursuits resulted in him leaving and, rather bizarrely, joining the Army.  In 1918, stationed at Fort Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama he met and became infatuated and then inseparable from Zelda Sayre.  Initially though she refused to marry him but with the success of ‘This Side of Paradise’, the fame and the flow of money enabled them both to begin a gilded life.  For them this was The Jazz Age.  For Fitzgerald he was already an alcoholic. 
   
  He continued to write with great mastery and the titles of his novels and many of his 164 short stories are household names.  The Great Gatsby, often cited as The Great American Novel was published to mixed reviews.  As America moved from the Great Depression to the slaughter of the Second World War his works and himself were seen as far too entwined with the decadent twenties. The world had moved on and he hadn’t.   
   
  Further tragedy was never far from his life. Zelda after years of erratic and now intolerable behaviour was committed to an institution in 1936.  His own sales began to decline and he became a hack for hire in Hollywood, dependent on increasing amounts of booze and the weekly pay check.  His drunken state had often resulted in arrest or hospitalisation, further imperiling his talents.   Despite his contribution to many MGM films he received only one credit. 
   
  The end came all too soon for one of America’s greatest ever writers.  On 21st December 1940, at only 44 years of age in Hollywood, F Scott Fitzgerald succumbed to a heart attack. 
   
  One of Fitzgerald’s short story gems is ‘The Ice Palace’. A Southern girl wants ‘to live where things happen on a grand scale’.  She is engaged to a Yankee but on their visit to The Ice Palace attraction life reveals a very different destiny for her.

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  Kevin Elyot: Four Plays (NHB...

  Kevin Elyot

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  A collection of plays from the acclaimed author of My Night With Reg, spanning twenty years of brilliant playwriting from our leading specialist in the comedy of pain.
  Included in this volume are:
  Coming Clean
  
  Winner of the Samuel Beckett Award, Elyot's first play, an examination of infidelity within a gay relationship. 'A very funny and acute comedy about the gay life' Sunday Times. 'In time, it will be recognised as the first mature play about homosexuality' Mail on Sunday
  My Night With Reg
  
  Elyot's breakthrough play, winner of the Evening Standard and Olivier Awards for Best Comedy. 'Sharply witty and humanely wise drama about gay manners and morals in the age of AIDS' Independent
  The Day I Stood Still
  
  'What begins apparently as a very English comedy about avoiding the issue... ends as something both tragic and heartening' Sunday Times
  Mouth to Mouth
  
  'An ingenious, brilliantly intricate work of art' Financial Times

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