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  Westminster Memorials Volume 1

  William Blake, John Bunyan,...

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  Volume 1 
   
  Westminster Abbey has seen much during its long, rich history; the coronations of Kings and Queens, the burials of Prime ministers. However it is also a church that remembers the men and women of the arts.  Dedicated writers and poets who spoke so eloquently that the Nation wished to remember them with plaques upon its walls so that all who travelled here could remember too. 
   
  Their works are worth remembering and here, in these volumes, their wise words speak too and for us all.  In Volume 1 we collect together Matthew Arnold to Lewis Carroll. 
   
  Words.  The building blocks of literature.  The ammunition to wrench emotion from brain to lip to life.  All languages of the world have a unique capacity to convey information in many forms. Among them; as concise instructions, as many sided conversations and as great literature.  And within literature these same words can be used in different ways to capture our hearts, our souls, our desires with simple yet unexpected phrasing.  The ear has no problem being captivated by their use. 
   
  Whether Shakespeare requests ‘If music be the food of love, play on’ or Tennyson in heart breaking desire ‘Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all’ or the simple statement of Pope ‘To err is human; to forgive, divine’ or the rage of Dylan Thomas ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ or the delicious question of Elizabeth Barrett Browning ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.’ 
   
  We are moved by them all because they are both eloquent and emotional. They speak of us and directly to us.   Poetry does what no other use of words can do; they explore, nourish and reflect the many facets of the human condition.

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  Rock (NHB Modern Plays)

  Chris Bush

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  Susie used to be a rocker. Susie used to be a radical. Susie was the future once, but that was a long time ago. It's been fifty years since her father bought an old scissor factory, and handed it over to her brother to run. Now Eddie's dead, and finally it's her time in the spotlight. She has big plans for it. She's turning up the volume. She's going to make this city sing again, if it's the last thing she does.
  Rock is a play about family, heritage and legacy, and is part of Chris Bush's trilogy of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors. The three plays were first performed simultaneously with the same cast moving between three theatres in Sheffield – the Crucible, the Lyceum and the Studio – as part of Sheffield Theatres' fiftieth birthday celebrations in 2022.

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  The Poetry of Letitia Elizabeth...

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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  Letitia Elizabeth Landon was born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea, London.  A precocious child she had her first poem published is 1820 using the single ‘L’ as her marker.  The following year her first volume appeared and sold well.  She published a further two poems that same year with just the initials ‘L.E.L.”  It provided the basis for much intrigue. She became the chief reviewer of the Gazette and published her second collection, The Improvisatrice, in 1824. By 1826, rumours began to circulate that she had had affairs.  For several years they continued to circulate until she broke off an engagement when her betrothed, upon further investigation, found them to be unfounded.  Her words reflect the lack of trust she felt  “The mere suspicion is dreadful as death”. On June 7th 1838 she married George Maclean, initially in secret, and a month later they sailed to Cape Coast.  However the marriage proved to be short lived as on October 15th Letitia was found dead, a bottle of prussic acid in her hand. Her reputation as a poet diminished until fairly recently; her work felt to be simplistic and too simply constructed.  However when put into context it is more rightly seen as working on many levels and meanings as was needed for those more moral times.

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  Lift the Mask - A short...

  Kristin Houlihan

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  Join Kristin in her poetic and heartfelt musings on life, parenting, and faith, told through the lens of a chronically ill and disabled mom. 
  The poetry and lyrical prose featured in this chapbook provide an honest look at Kristin’s journey with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and her growing commitment to writing as other parts of her life are stripped away by chronic illness. Inspired by one-word prompts, every piece tells a story in 240 characters or less. 
  Lift the Mask reminds those of us who live with chronic illness that we aren’t alone, and that creativity can sometimes be found in our greatest struggles.

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  Kinky Thoughts And Poems - An...

  Nsingo Sakala, Jasmine Kaur

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  Curators of Elite adult events and experiences, Nsingo and Jasmine, bring you an exquisite collection of quotes and poems geared towards easing curious minds into the world of soft Kink and sexual exploration. This book may be read in any order, and in any setting. It has been used by couples and singles to enhance sexual fantasies inside and outside the bedroom.

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  More Bab Ballads

  W. S. Gilbert

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  This is a subset of the second collection of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” – light verses poking fun at the life and people of his time in Gilbert’s unique “topsy-turvey” style. The epitaph on his memorial on the Victoria Embankment in London is “HIS FOE WAS FOLLY AND HIS WEAPON WIT”, an epitaph amply exemplified in these verses. (Summary by Graham Redman)

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