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  Story of Rimini

  Leigh Hunt

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  A long poem telling the tragic story of Francesca da Rimini, the duped and adulterous bride, inspired by the character in Dante's Inferno. Published in 1816 and dedicated to Lord Byron, it is considered the pinnacle of Hunt's poetic achievements. Hunt, though having fine artistic sensibilities, was not placed among the first rank of lyric poets, many of whom he championed however. The Story of Rimini was written in prison, where he spent two years for slander of the Prince Regent, and is dramatically and vividly told, with much evocative scene-setting and careful portrayal of emotional conflicts. ( Peter Tucker)

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  Solve for Desire - Poems

  Caitlin Bailey

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  A debut poetry collection exploring the real lives of siblings Georg and Grete Trakl while addressing themes of desire, addiction, loss, and absence. Georg Trakl is one of the most celebrated poets of the early twentieth century. Less is known about his sister, Grete: also gifted, also addicted to drugs, and dead by her own hand three years after Georg’s overdose. But in Solve for Desire—selected by Srikanth Reddy as the winner of the 2017 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry—Caitlin Bailey summons Grete from the shadows. At once sensual and acidic, obsessive and bereft, the Grete of these poems is a fairy-tale sister leaving “missives dropped around the city, crumbs / for your ghost.” Can one person be addicted to another? Can two souls be twinned, and where does that leave the physical? How do we solve for desire when the object we adore disappears—and how does the poet solve and resolve the past, its wounds and its absences? “Each time I write your name,” Bailey writes, “a key / turns somewhere in a lock.” Like the “perfect red burst” of poppies and of blood, these poems are a blooming, keening exploration of desire between brother and sister, poet and subject, the living and the dead.Praise for Solve for Desire “The work of a poet who sings, boldly, across the distances between us.” —Srikanth Reddy “A sobering look at desire, addiction, loss, and absence in this debut collection of short, lyric poems that are by turns lush and understated, lofty and plainspoken. . . . She performs a kind of feminist resuscitation of the lesser-known Grete, focusing on small moments of quiet, grief, lust, and memory, and fleshing out a story that is still disputed” —Publishers Weekly “This precarious, satisfyingly disjointed debut collection of poetry captures the spirit of the [Trakl] siblings. . . . Bailey’s brilliantine lyrics shine brightest when the siblings’ characters are wrought in full relief.” —Booklist

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  The Emma Press Anthology of Illness

  Amy Mackelden, Dylan Jaggard

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  From interactions with hot oncologists to life-threatening hospital stays to a really bad case of glandular fever.
  Whether a diagnosis is life-altering or treatable, a total surprise or painfully invisible, The Emma Press Anthology of Illness explores what we wish people knew about being ill, and whether finding that 'new normal' is ever possible.

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  Polish Joke - And Other Plays

  David Ives

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  A collection of four works from the American playwright known as “wizardly . . . magical and funny . . . a master of language” (The New York Times).   This collection brings together four full-length plays from the same dazzling pen that produced the one-act comic masterpieces of All in the Timing.  Polish Joke is about a young Polish-American’s trip through ethnic stereotypes. Nine-year-old Midwesterner Jan Bogdan Sadlowski, nicknamed Jasiu, is told by his uncle that Poles are thought to be “backward, stupid, inept, and gloomy.” The only way out is for Jasiu “to impersonate someone not Polish.”   In Don Juan in Chicago, a Renaissance innocent makes a deal with the devil, only to become a reluctant Latin lover.  Ancient History is a comedy-drama about the holy war that breaks out when two people from two very different cultures fall in love.  The Red Address paints a searing portrait of a man with a secret who is forced by tragedy into self-revelation.  Praise for David Ives   “A pitcher with a great many tricks up his sleeve. He throws like an all-star . . . mixing comedic moods and styles with a dizzying assortment of changeups.” —The New York Times  Polish Joke   “Ives skillfully climbs the slippery slope of political incorrectness without a single mean-spirited stumble.” —CurtainUp  Don Juan in Chicago   “Ives invents an irresistible premise and has fun making good on its promise.” —Los Angeles Times  Ancient History   “A riveting theatrical experience.” —Show Business  The Red Address “Mix Glengarry Glen Ross with Glen or Glenda . . . A tough-talking drama that mixes business sharks, blackmail, cross-dressing and murder.” —Variety

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  The Taming of the Shrew

  William Shakespeare

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  Unabridged cast performance of Shakespeare's comedy about the courtship of Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew.

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  Perve (NHB Modern Plays)

  Stacy Gregg

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  An irreverent and unsettling play that interrogates paranoia, ambiguity and innocence in our highly sexualised world.
  Gethin has just finished his film course and reckons he's the next Scorsese. His mum is on at him to do her friend's wedding video - before the couple get divorced!
  But Gethin is interested in a much more daring project - one that will get him into dangerously deep water, question his idealism and turn his life and that of his family upside down.
  Stacey Gregg's play Perve was first staged at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2011.
  'Gutsy, polished... Gregg's concept is stunningly good, and uncannily timely... this is a gripping paranoia drama' - Irish Independent
  'In her first full-length play, Stacey Gregg tackles very current concerns about the sexualisation of children and loss of innocence' - Guardian

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