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  The Haystack in the Floods - The...

  William Morris

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  William Morris was born in Walthamstow, London on 24th March 1834 he is regarded today as a foremost poet, writer, textile designer, artist and libertarian.  
  Morris began to publish poetry and short stories in 1856 through the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine which he founded with his friends and financed while at university. His first volume, in 1858, The Defence of Guenevere and Other  Poems, was the first published book of Pre-Raphaelite poetry. Due to its luke-warm reception he was discouraged from poetry writing for a number of years.  
  His return to poetry was with the great success of The Life and Death of Jason in 1867, which was followed by The Earthly Paradise, themed around a group of medieval wanderers searching for a land of everlasting life; after much disillusion, they discover a surviving colony of Greeks with whom they exchange stories. In the collection are retellings of Icelandic sagas. From then until his Socialist period Morris's fascination with the ancient Germanic and Norse peoples dominated his writing being the first to translate many of the Icelandic sagas into English; the epic retelling of the story of Sigurd the Volsung being his favourite.  
  In 1884 he founded the Socialist League but with the rise of the Anarchists in the party he left it in 1890.  
  In 1891 he founded the Kelmscott Press publishing limited edition illuminated style books.  His design for The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is a masterpiece.  
  Morris was quietly approached with an offer of the Poet Laureateship after the death of Tennyson in 1892, but declined.  
  William Morris died at age 62 on 3rd October 1896 in London.

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  Glut

  Ramona Herdman

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  Ramona Herdman's Glut is a lush, entertaining, and bittersweet collection of poems about how we live together and find meaning through rules and rituals around food, family, alcohol, work, nature, sex and love. These vividly-realised, nimble poems probe at the delicate balancing acts we – our bodies and our minds – perform in life: between power and trust, between convention and rebellion, and between what is enough and what is too much.
  All the time, Herdman's spry poetry keeps a gimlet eye on our impulse to make sense of it all – of how we live and work together, and what strategies will help us to navigate our way through the tangled undergrowth of negotiation and misunderstanding. Glut is a lustrous, darkly funny, open-hearted book on the distance between people, on satisfying appetites, and on seeking both pleasure and consolation.

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  The Book of Landings

  Mark McMorris

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  The Book of Landings brings together the second and third parts of Mark McMorris's visionary trilogy "Auditions for Utopia,"—initiated in Entrepôt—and marks two stages in the evolution of the poet's conception of space. The first stage of the collection is the entrepôt, a space where disparate vectors of identity congregate, come into conflict, and finally merge into hybrid forms. The poetry follows a trajectory of diaspora, or exile, instigated by conquest, colonialism, wars, and political defeat in the search for Utopia. In The Book of Landings the promised dwelling has been removed from the realm of physical geography, and there is only transition—fragmentary episodes of arrival and departure, in transit from one entrepôt to another. These episodes of transit do not only compose a linear sequence only. Instead, they define a space or surface marked by repeated traversals over time—tracings and, importantly, re-tracings, by explorers, conquerors, migrants, merchants, slaves, refugees, and exiles—a city of palimpsests. An online reader's companion will be available at markmcmorris.site.wesleyan.edu.

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  The Wood Between the Worlds - A...

  Brian Zahnd

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  The cross is the heart of Scripture 
   
   
   
  Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and proceeds from the cross. In fact, within the narrative of Scripture, the crucifixion of Jesus is literally the crux of the story—the axis upon which the biblical story turns. But it would be a mistake to think we could sum up the significance of the crucifixion in a tidy sentence or two. That kind of thinking only insulates us from the magnificence of what God has done. In our ongoing quest to make meaning of the cross, we need to recognize that this conversation will never conclude—that there is always something more to be said. 
   
   
   
  Brian Zahnd reminds us that the meaning of the cross is multifaceted and should touch every aspect of our lives. Just as gazing through the eyepiece of a kaleidoscope reveals a new geometric image with every turn, Zahnd helps us see that there are infinite ways to behold the cross of Christ as the beautiful form that saves the world. The Wood Between the Worlds is an invitation to encounter the cross of Christ anew.

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  The Flea (NHB Modern Plays)

  James Fritz

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  July 1889, London. A flea bites a rat. A rat spooks a horse. A horse kicks a man. As the chain reaction continues, a boy and his mother find themselves swept up in a national scandal that will reshape both their lives – and the country.
  James Fritz's play The Flea is a retelling of the Cleveland Street Scandal that shook England – from the streets of Bermondsey to the halls of Buckingham Palace – and features a flea, a horse, a detective, a queen, a pimp, a god, and Charlie, the telegraph boy who knelt before the Crown.
  This anarchic and affecting play was first performed at The Yard Theatre, London, in October 2023, directed by Artistic Director Jay Miller.

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  Everything We've Done: Female...

  Charlotte Mew, May Sinclair,...

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  The horror of the male experience during World War One was well documented in poetry, memoir, and fiction throughout the 20th century. Women's voices of despair, endurance and anger, however, have often been forgotten. These poems of political fury, widowed brides, industry undertaken, and sons and friends loved and lost, give a heartbreaking insight into the experience of women throughout World War One.
  The full list of poems included in this collection are:
  
  
  - Joining the Colours, by Katharine Tynan
  - War Girls, by Jessie Pope
  - August 1914, by May Wedderburn Cannan
  - Rouen, by May Wedderburn Cannan
  - Dedication 8 March, by May Sinclair
  - Belgium, by Edith Wharton
  - Lament, by Katharine Tynan
  - Spring in War-Time, by Sara Teasdale
  - The Falling Leaves, by Margaret Postgate Cole
  - 'I know the truth! Renounce all others!', by Marina Tsvetaeva
  - Lamplight, by May Wedderburn Cannan
  - In a Soldier's Hospital 1: Pluck, by Eva Dobell
  - Perhaps 1916, by Vera Brittain
  - Field Ambulance in Retreat, by May Sinclair
  - At the Movies, by Florence Ripley Mastin
  - Reported Missing, by Anna Gordon Keown
  - from At the Somme: The Song of the Mud, by Mary Borden
  - from The Work, by Gertrude Stein
  - After the War, by May Wedderburn Cannan
  - The Veteran, by Margaret Postgate Cole
  - Epitaph On My Days in Hospital, by Vera Mary Brittain
  - Roundel, by Vera Mary Brittain
  - War Mothers, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  - The Lament of the Demobilized, by Vera Brittain
  - The Cenotaph, by Charlotte Mew
  - A War Bride, by Jessie St. John
  - Screens (In a Hospital), by Winifred Letts
  - The Deserter, by Winifred Letts
  - The Spires of Oxford, by Winifred Letts
  - Night Duty, by Eva DobellThis audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.

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