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  Lances All Alike

  Suzanne Zelazo

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  Modernist poet-painters Mina Loy and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven had many friends in common (including Djuna Barnes and Marcel Duchamp), yet there is no record that the two ever met. Their non-relationship presents a curious “absent presence�* in modernist history. Zelazo weaves lines of poetry by both women into an imaginary conversation, exploring the way their work has been suppressed, stitched, spliced, and edited by male editors and arbiters of taste.

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  Shining City (NHB Modern Plays)

  Conor McPherson

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  A brilliant, haunting play from the multi-award winning author of The Weir.
  Ian has left the priesthood to become a therapist. John is one of his first clients. John's wife has been killed in a car accident, and he keeps receiving visits from her ghost. John, with Ian's help, starts to recover. But what begins as an unusual encounter becomes a desperate struggle between the living and the dead - a struggle which will shape and define both of them for the rest of their lives.
  Shining City premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2004.
  'moving, compassionate, ingenious and absolutely gripping ... scenes that provoke great, generous gales of laughter, others that send a shiver of fear down the spine ... riveting' Telegraph
  'quiet, haunting and absolutely glorious... as close to perfection as contemporary playwriting gets' New York Times
  'compulsively gripping... McPherson brilliantly reconciles the mundane and the metaphysical' Guardian

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  F*ck the Polar Bears (NHB Modern...

  Tanya Ronder

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  A raucous family drama about the cost of living the life of our dreams.
  Gordon and Serena have worked hard to get where they are. He's on the verge of a massive promotion at an energy giant. She's preparing for a move into the house of their dreams.
  The family appear to be cooking on gas.
  But behind their perfect front door, light bulbs are blowing, the drains keep blocking, and a phone inexplicably refuses to charge. Not to mention that daughter Rachel's adored toy polar bear is nowhere to be found.
  F*ck the Polar Bears premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in September 2015.

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  The Book of Poems

  Denisse Molina Fisher

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  In this charming Book of Poems, you will find poems that allows you to self-examine your own perceptions, inner-most feelings and choices. You will gain wisdom as your invited to ponder topics such as Empowerment, Resiliency, Compassion, Imperfection, Change, Self-Forgiveness, Storytelling, Boundaries, Conflict, Communication and Virtues. 
  Contemplate for the true message your soul needs to hear and harness your own unique ability to interpret poetry and symbolic imagery.

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  Anniversary Poems

  John Donne

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  Elizabeth Drury, daughter of Donne's patron, Sir Robert Drury, died in 1610. A year later Donne laments her hyperbolically as the soul of the created universe. In "An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary," he poetically scrutinizes that year-old corpse, the world, as if he were performing an autopsy (an "anatomy"). He finds it corrupt in every part, the dead woman having carried with her every spark of goodness it once contained. To commemorate the second anniversary of Miss Drury's death, Donne's "Progress of the Soul" (1612) celebrates her liberation from this world, urges readers to follow her example, and performs a cheerful spiritual meditation upon the process of death, burial, and corruption—cheerful because death frees us from the inconveniences of this life and serves as a portal to the next. Each poem is introduced by an encomium that, though purporting to be written by another hand, appears to be the poet's own work. (Summary by Thomas Copeland)

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  Crimsoning the Eagle's Claw

  Rognvaldr Kali Kolsson

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  A genuinely unique European treasure, this volume bristles with all 33 of Rognvaldr's verses from the Orkneyinga Saga. While full of highly stylised, often grotesque images, the poems convey the skill, vigour and daring of the original.
  Rich narratives and old Norse mythology blend with familiar place-names and landscapes to create a peculiarly alluring, sometime comic, world that never quite settles around the reader, as if time travel is possible from a favourite armchair.

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