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  The Restoration Poets

  John Milton, John Bunyan, John...

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  In the years between 1660 and 1700 much upheaval took place in English politics.  To mirror this rising on the artistic scene were the Restoration Poets – Dryden, Milton, Bunyan, Marvell, D’Avennat, Cowley …. are but a select few from this momentous movement in our Poetical History.  Poets of courage, ambition and vigour.  With the strength of words and vision to record for history  this tumultuous phase.

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  Some Cannot Be Caught - The Emma...

  Liane Strauss, Anja Konig

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  The Emma Press Book of Beasts rustles and roars with the voices of animals and humans, co-existing on Earth with varying degrees of harmony. A scorpion appears in a shower; a deer jumps in front of a car. A swarm of snowfleas seethes through leaf litter; children bait a gorilla at the zoo. The poems in this anthology examine hierarchy, herds, power, and the price we pay for belonging.

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  A Midsummer Night's Dream

  William Shakespeare

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  Сomedy A Midsummer's Night Dream is a wonderful piece of work written by a genius English playwright William Shakespeare. Three very amusing stories tightly connected with each other fascinate the reader with a numerous love adventures. The reason for that is a potion of a forest spirit Puck. William Shakespeare is the author of the world famous sonnets and plays Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello, as well as comedies Twelfth Night, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and As You Like It. William Shakespeare is the most performed playwright, the works of the great English poet have been on top of the world theatre stages for some centuries already.

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  The Poetry of Aleister Crowley -...

  Aleister Crowley

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  Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. 
   
  He was educated at Malvern College, Tonbridge School, Eastbourne College and finally Trinity College, Cambridge where he focused on his passions of mountaineering and poetry and published several volumes. 
   
  Life for Crowley was to abandon his parents’ Christian faith and instead to inject himself into Western esotericism.  In 1898, he joined the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and was trained in ceremonial magic before studying both Hindu and Buddhist practices in India. 
   
  On his Egyptian honeymoon in 1904 he claimed contact with an entity―Aiwass―who gave him the sacred Book of the Law which served as the basis for the Thelema religion where he identified as its prophet.  During the Great War, which he spent in the United States, he claimed to be working for British Intelligence but by the 1920s he had decamped to pursue a libertine lifestyle in Sicily, and in the ensuing scandals was evicted by the Italian Government. 
   
  He divided the following two decades between France, Germany, and England, and the continuing promotion of Thelema. 
   
  During his life he gained widespread notoriety for his drug use, his bisexuality, and his alarming views on society.  In short, polite society frowned on his ways, his thoughts and his influence but to many others his stance had much of value.  Even after death he was a darling for the 60’s counterculture but his influence has since waned.   
   
  His literary works were both prolific and covered many topics.  In the early part of his career he published many poetry books, even plays, before his darker and more forceful works came to dominate his output. 
   
  Aleister Crowley died on 1st December 1947 at Hastings in England. He was 72. 
   
  1 - The Poetry of Aleister Crowley - An Introduction 
  2 - The Wizard Way by Aleister Crowley 
  3 - Hymn to Lucifer by Aleister Crowley 
  4 - The Pentagram by Aleister Crowley 
  5 - Hymn to Pan by Aleister Crowley 
  6 - A Birthday by Aleister Crowley 
  7 - The Quest by Aleister Crowley 
  8 - Boo to Buddha by Aleister Crowley 
  9 - All Night by Aleister Crowley 
  10 - Necrophilia by Aleister Crowley 
  11 - Mathilde by Aleister Crowley 
  12 - Ballade de la Jolie Marion by Aleister Crowley 
  13 - Rondels by Aleister Crowley 
  14 - Man's Hope by Aleister Crowley 
  15 - A Jealous Lover by Aleister Crowley 
  16 - Long Odds by Aleister Crowley 
  17 - Power by Aleister Crowley 
  18 - Optimist by Aleister Crowley 
  19 - Dumb by Aleister Crowley 
  20 - The Titanic by Aleister Crowley 
  21 - The Buddhist by Aleister Crowley 
  22 - The Mantra-Yoga by Aleister Crowley 
  23 - The Poet by Aleister Crowley

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  Astrophil and Stella

  Sir Philip Sidney

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  Astrophil and Stella is a sonnet sequence written by Philip Sidney, an Elizabethan poet and courtier. It details the frustrated love of Astrophil (whose name means "star-lover") for his beloved Stella (whose name means "star"). It is likely that Sidney based his poems on his own unrequited passion for a married woman. The sequence inspired other sonnet writers of the period, such as Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and Lady Mary Wroth. (Summary written by Elizabeth Klett)

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  The Tug of War

  David Rambo

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  The judgment of an untested president is all that stands between us and WWIII. As Soviet nuclear missiles move ever closer to Cuba, President John F. Kennedy must chart a course between conflicting counsel and unparalleled emotional stakes to prevent nuclear annihilation. The newly-minted U.S. President is put to the ultimate test in this riveting original commission from playwright David Rambo (Empire, C.S.I.) Includes panel discussions about the Cuban Missile Crisis with playwright David Rambo; Bob Stern, the past president of the LA-based Center on Governmental Studies; Richard Anderson, a Professor of Political Science at UCLA and former CIA analyst; and Geoff Cowan, a University Professor at USC.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring:Matthew Arkin as Llewellyn Thompson, First ReporterHugo Armstrong as Lyndon Johnson, Anatoly DobryninSeamus Dever as Robert McNamaraMatthew Floyd Miller as Robert F. KennedyJames Morrison as John McCone, TV Floor ManagerDavid Selby as Dean RuskRich Sommer as McGeorge BundyJosh Stamberg as John F. KennedyNick Toren as Ted Sorenson, Second Reporter, General Curtis LeMayJohn Vickery as Nikita Khrushchev, General TaylorJules Willcox as Jackie Kennedy, Mrs. Lincoln, Third ReporterDirected by Brian Kite and recorded live in performance at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater in May 2017.Sound Effects Artist, Aaron Lyons. Production Manager, Katie Friesen. Music Supervisor, Ronn Lipkin. Assistant to the Director, Michelle Gong. Historical Research, Nick Fanego. Associate Producer, Anna Lyse Erikson. Editor, Mitchell Lindskoog. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.

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