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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Christina Rossetti, Lucretia...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Birthdays - An Introduction 
  2 - A Birthday by Christina Rossetti 
  3 - On My Mother's Fiftieth Birthday by Lucretia Maria Davidson 
  4 - On My Thirty Third Birthday, January 22nd 1821 by Lord Byron 
  5 - To My Father on His Birthday by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  6 - Song of the Democratic Review of it's Birthday, October the 1st 1857 by William Ross Wallace 
  7 - Stella's Birthday, March 13th 1727 by Jonathan Swift 
  8 - On Tea by Edmund Waller 
  9 - To H W L on His Birthday 27th February 1867 by James Russell Lowell 
  10 - To Mrs Jane Forster, On Her Birthday, August 4th 1724 by Henry Baker 
  11 - To the Memory of Mrs Lefroy Who Died December 16 My Birthday by Jane Austen 
  12 - Shakespeare. An Ode for His Three-Hundreth Birthday by Martin Farquhar Tupper 
  13 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton

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  How Love is Spelt (NHB Modern...

  Chloë Moss

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  Peta is new in town and ready for whatever London has to throw at her. She's looking for romance, for friendship, for exciting people to lead her on big adventures. But being an independent woman in the new millennium isn't easy, especially when there's a constant reminder of the life you're trying to escape.
  With each new encounter, Peta flirts with what might have been, but has the journey to London put enough distance between her and her past?
  Chloë Moss's play How Love Is Spelt is a fascinating and funny play, which premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2004. It was revived by Brickdust and Project One at Southwark Playhouse in 2019.
  'She wanted spontaneity, adventure… I said I can be spontaneous… I just need a little bit of time to plan.'
  'The finest and most assured writing to be found outside the National Theatre this year... a moving and mature study of love, loneliness and the need to define one's identity... One of the year's undoubted highlights' - Evening Standard
  'Moss's writing evokes these nocturnal collisions beautifully, using silence as powerfully as words, and brittle comedy as deftly as tremendous sadness' - Guardian
  'A remarkably assured new talent. I can't remember a play in recent years that so adroitly captured the difficulty of being young and alone in the capital or did so with such refreshing humour...There's nothing loud or brash about this drama of youthful disillusion, but it's well worth shouting about' - Daily Telegraph

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  Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television...

  Waleed Akhtar

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  Afghanistan. It's 2004. Farook and Samia broadcast live every day to the whole of Kabul, delivering ninety minutes of musical bliss: Britney, Backstreet Boys and Enrique Iglesias. But when their show starts to make waves, the two young friends must take on repressive forces to build a new Afghanistan.
  Inspired by the true story of Afghanistan's first youth music programme, Waleed Akhtar's play Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan explores a world following the US invasion that is complex, contradictory and shocking – all to a soundtrack of early noughties' pop.
  
  The play premiered at Brixton House, London, in 2022, directed by Anna Himali Howard, before touring the UK. It was presented with HighTide, in association with Mercury Theatre Colchester.

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  Geographical Locations - Sand...

  Mike Blake

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  Geographical Locations: Sand GrainsA medium short poem.Apart from the obvious location of where you find yourself in the World,also the location you are seeking to find.*****MORE POEMS BY THE AUTHOR: **To see more Poems by the same Author please follow the link below: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00SG40RM8To contact the Author: Please add me Mike Miko on Facebook & then message me, thanks. https://www.facebook.com/mike.cco1I will then contact the Author your behalf. or on Twitter: miko_1_dollarInstagram:  wild_poetrys  //  wild.poetry.websTikTok: @Wild_Poetryswww.wild-poetry.comNew Poets Corner: https://www.facebook.com/New.Poets.Corner

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  The Poetry of Anne Kingsmill...

  Anne Kingsmill Finch

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  Anne Kingsmill was born in April 1661 (an exact date is not known) in Sydmonton, Hampshire. 
   
  Throughout her life Anne was involved in several Court cases that dragged on for years. These involved both a share of her parent’s estate for her education and later her and her husband’s share of an inheritance.  
   
  In 1682, Anne became a maid of honour to Mary of Modena (wife of James, Duke of York, and later King James II) at St James’s Palace.  
   
  Anne's interest in poetry began at the palace, and she started writing her own verse. The Court however was no place for a woman to display any poetic efforts.  Women were not considered suitable for such literary pursuits.  
   
  At court, Anne met Colonel Heneage Finch. A courtier as well as a soldier. The couple married on 15th May 1684.  
   
  The couple's marriage was enduring and happy, in part due to the equality in their partnership. Her poetic skills blossomed as she expressed her love for her husband and the positive effects of his encouragement on her artistic development.  
   
  Being staunch Catholics in a changing and volatile Protestant world would bring them many problems to endure.  Her husband continued to support her poetry and in 1701 she published ‘The Spleen’ anonymously. This well-received reflection on depression would prove to be her most popular poem.  However, it also revealed the continuing and mounting problem of her own frequent depressions.  
   
  When ‘Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions’ was published in 1713, the cover of the first edition stated that the works were "Written by a Lady." On subsequent printings, she received credit as Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.  
   
  Anne Kingsmill-Finch, Countess of Winchilsea died in Westminster on 5th August 1720.

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  No One Leaves the World Unhurt

  John Foy

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  John Foy’s newest collection is a tour de force of formal poetry, offering a blend of wit, cleverness, and deftness. Working in the lineage of poets like Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Frank O’Hara, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop, Foy probes everyday experiences to generate compassionate, clever, and deeply knowing verse. While moments in No One Leaves the World Unhurt may appear absurd or even funny on the surface—such as a psychological exploration of the Lord of the Rings character Gollum—beneath this lightheartedness lies a tone that is grim and foreboding. Foy satirizes various elements of contemporary society, reflecting on war, wandering through the Museum of Sex in New York with his wife, and plucking apart idiomatic speech, which he breaks down, saying “It is what it is. / It’s not what it might have been.” Influenced by pop art and fine art and his New York home, which forms the backdrop of many of these poems, Foy’s vibrant collection is simultaneously philosophical, whimsical, serious, and searching.

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