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  Yvonne Green: Selected Poems and...

  Yvonne Green

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  I like
  
  the way good food and diction go together so clearly. Geographically [these
  
  poems] excel, and in so many other directions too. The poems are different to
  
  what one normally gets in English, the issues far bigger, as in "Dhimmi
  
  Under Sharia Law" (A Lawyer's Poem) and in many others that one may
  
  benefit from. Such excellent poems show how different customs can
  
  nevertheless blend, especially in, "We Speak English Now." I also
  
  very much like, "That I May Know You:" "Let me visit your
  
  houise/and eat something/of what is on your table/hear you and know/some of
  
  your language."' — Alan Sillitoe

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  The Poetry of Damon Runyon - We...

  Damon Runyon

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  Alfred Damon Runyan was born on 4th October 1880, in Manhattan, Kansas.  
   
  When Runyon was two his father was forced to sell his newspaper and the family moved eventually settling in Pueblo, Colorado where Runyon spent his youth.  
   
  By most accounts, he attended school only through the fourth grade and then worked for his father in the newspaper trade.  
   
  In 1898 Runyon enlisted in the U.S. Army to fight in the Spanish–American War. After his service he returned to Colorado and worked for the local newspapers.  
   
  By 1910 he had moved to New York to work for Hearst newspapers, writing a daily column.  He was soon promoted to be the Hearst newspapers' baseball columnist and developed his trademark viewpoint of writing up the eccentric and the unusual, whether on the field or in the stands. 
   
  But Runyon also wrote poetry, plays, essays and, of course, his short stories with his famous ‘Runyonesque’ characters who were funny, gritty and instantly memorable, all distilled into black and white type. 
   
  Of course, the cliché about newspapermen and writers is that they are heavy drinkers, chain-smokers, gamblers and obsessively chase women with a sideline in gathering info and only getting something written just before the deadline hits.  And that, pretty much, was Runyon’s life. 
   
  In 1938 he developed throat cancer which would leave him unable to speak but he continued to work at a ferocious pace, pursuing a Hollywood career as writer and producer at MGM, Universal and RKO studios. 
   
  Alfred Damon Runyon died in New York City on 10th December 1946 from throat cancer.  He was 66. 
   
  His ashes were scattered from a plane over Broadway.   
   
  In his early short Story ‘The Defense of Strikerville’ Runyon takes up the cause of workers’ rights as it comes up against the nasty tactics of big-dog capitalism.  
   
  Runyon’s poems brilliantly illustrate his style and ideas with works that are individual, observational, heavy on the vernacular and bring a rarely seen poetic talent to our attention.  
   
  1 - The Poetry of Damon Runyon - An Introduction 
  2 - The Song of the Strike-Breakers by Damon Runyon 
  3 - Song of the Steel Worker by Damon Runyon 
  4 - The Song of the Bullet by Damon Runyon 
  5 - A Song of the Panama Canal by Damon Runyon 
  6 - A Song of the Rails by Damon Runyon 
  7 - The Song of King Barleycorn 
  8 - The King of Moo by Damon Runyon 
  9 - The Song of Silence by Damon Runyon 
  10 - Song O' the Lost Trains by Damon Runyon 
  11 - The Song of the Saddle by Damon Runyon 
  12 - The Ghosts of the Great White Way by Damon Runyon 
  13 - The Softest Town by Damon Runyon 
  14 - The Ballad of the Big Town by Damon Runyon 
  15 - Ballads of a Beach Comber by Damon Runyon 
  16 - When the Ships Go Home by Damon Runyon 
  17 - Dream of a Drowsy Day by Damon Runyon 
  18 - Ballad of Hop Looey 
  19 - The Ladies in the Trenches - a Solider Song of the Sulu Isles by Damon Runyon 
  20 - Nostalgia by Damon Runyon 
  21 - A Divorce Problem by Damon Runyon 
  22 - The Boy She Used to Know by Damon Runyon 
  23 - Roses of a Dream by Damon Runyon 
  24 - Homeward Bound by Damon Runyon 
  25 - The Spirit of You by Damon Runyon 
  26 - Ghosts by Damon Runyon 
  27 - Ballad of Lonely Graves by Damon Runyon 
  28 - Pal, Algeria 1910 by Damon Runyon 
  29 - Requiem by Damon Runyon

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  Homie - Poems

  Danez Smith

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  Danez Smith is our president 
   
   
   
  Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout comes up to the window, and family—blood and chosen—arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and for Danez's friends and for you and for yours.

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― The Rain - 12...

  Frances Ledwidge, Ivor Gurney,...

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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 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic.  The Rain - An Introduction 
  2 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge 
  3 - April Rain by Mathilde Blind 
  4 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
  5 - Rain Music by Joseph Semon Cotter 
  6 - The Rainy Season by Mirabai 
  7 - The Rainy Day by Tagore 
  8 - Rainy Midnight by Ivor Gurney 
  9 - All Day It Has Rained by Alun Lewis 
  10 - Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale 
  11 - Rain by Edward Thomas 
  12 - Bells in the Rain by Elinor Wylie 
  13 - Rain on a Grave by Thomas Hardy

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  A Christmas Carol (NHB Modern...

  Charles Dickens

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  One ghostly Christmas night, cold-hearted businessman Ebenezer Scrooge gets the fright of his life, discovers the truth about himself, and learns to love his neighbour.
  This adaptation by David Edgar of the Charles Dickens classic – one of the best-loved stories ever written – rediscovers the social conscience of the timeless tale. It was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon for Christmas 2017.

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  Poacher

  Lenni Sanders

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  Follow Lenni Sanders into the queasy and nocturnal world of Poacher, and be transformed.
  
  Here horror imagery and romantic lyricism combine to construct a new gothic world. These poems are eerie, thoughtful, bodily. They explore sexuality, and dreams and nightmares. They are full of devouring creatures.
  
  By turns tender and disgusting, Poacher creates and examines different, dynamic ways of wanting and longing. Influenced by magical realism and contemporary art, often wryly funny, the poems in Poacher place strange characters in mundane places – and are alive to the changes such friction and intimacy can cause.

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