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  Fifty Shades of June - 50 of the...

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara...

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  The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar heralds a new season – Summer.  Lengthening days, Sunshine days, Glorious days! 
   
  In this month our classic poets flex their lexicons with verse that describes all manner of events.  The weather may be warm or windy, showers, squalls and storms may momentarily darken skies with grey foreboding but Nature will soon be at work again on a palette of such bright and dazzling hues that the landscape is reborn again. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of June - An Introduction 
  2 - June by Horatio Alger Jr 
  3 - June by Francis Ledwidge 
  4 - Verses to Her Highness, the Duchess, June 3rd 1665 by John Henry Dryden 
  5 - Sonnet LXII Off Ostend, June 11th 1837 by Henry Alford 
  6 - A Match by Algernon Swinburne 
  7 - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns 
  8 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker 
  9 - A Man Young and Old - Summer and Spring by William Butler Yeats 
  10 - A June Night by Emma Lazarus 
  11 - A Night in June by Alfred Austin 
  12 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell 
  13 - Summer by Khalil Gibran 
  14 - Sonnet 13 -  Summer Fruit by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  15 - A Summer Night by George William Russell 
  16 - June Night by Sara Teasdale 
  17 - A Night in June by James Edwin Campbell 
  18 - Dusk in June by Sara Teasdale 
  19 - All in June by William Henry Davies 
  20 - Bee by Emily Dickinson 
  21 - Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant 
  22 - June by James Whitcomb Riley 
  23 - Across the Red Sky by Katherine Mansfield 
  24 - The Thrush's Nest by John Clare 
  25 - June, A Tale by William Cowper 
  26 - Beachey Head by Charlotte Smith 
  27 - To June by George MacDonald 
  28 - There is A June When Corn is Cut by Emily Dickinson 
  29 - Wishes of an Elderly Man Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914 by Walter Alexander Raleigh 
  30 - Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  31 - The Idlers Calender - Twelve Sonnets for the Months - June by Wilford Scawen Blunt 
  32 - The Human Seasons by John Keats 
  33 - Summer by Christina Rossetti 
  34 - Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  35 - I Have Heard the Sunset Song of the Birches by Stephen Crane 
  36 - How Did the Rose by Hafiz 
  37 - Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  38 - The Longest Day by William Wordsworth 
  39 - At the Sunrise, 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  40 - Sonnet LVI Written at York on the Day of the Coronation of Queen Victoria June 28th, 1838 by Henry Alford 
  41 - Hymn For St John's Eve the 29th June by John Henry Dryden 
  42 - Hymn For the Dedication of Memorial Hall at Cambridge June 23rd 1874 by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  43 - To William Hayley Esq, June 29th 1793 by William Cowper 
  44 - June 14th by Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper 
  45 - On My Leaving London, June the 29th by Sarah Fyge-Egerton 
  46 - Pleasure's Past by John Clare 
  47 - A Gleam of Sunshine by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  48 - Sweet Empty Sky of June by Henry Vaughan 
  49 - June by William Cullen Bryant 
  50 - June at Woodruff by James Whitcomb Riley 
  51 - Angels of Sunderland, In Memoriam, June 16th 1893 by John Hartley

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  Othello

  William Shakespeare

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  “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.”Othello is a tragedy play by William Shakespeare, written in the middle of his career in 1603. The story follows Othello, a general in the Venetian army, and Iago, a treacherous soldier who conspires against him to make him believe that his wife is unfaithful. Like many other Shakespearean plays, Othello features a cast of dynamic characters, murder plots, marital affairs, revenge, and witty writing.Othello is an important work of Shakespeare as it has thorough examinations of many of Shakespeare’s preferred themes and tropes. Othello is known for its themes of jealousy and revenge, racial discrimination, romance, betrayal, and repentance. Though Othello may not be the first tragedy that comes to mind when discussing Shakespeare, it has a legacy of its own and is performed and enjoyed by modern audiences, both on stage and screen. The timeless themes represented within are indicative of Shakespeare’s indelible understanding of humanity and the motivations that drive people to extreme actions.

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  Poems about Paintings

  James Sey

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  This chapbook of poetry and prose pieces reflects philosophically and aesthetically on the relationships between art and the world, including through the global experience of Covid-related lockdowns. Though generally following an extended haiku-like format, some are longer prose poems, and an extended verse poem reflects on the city where the author lives, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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  Wild Women of a Certain Age

  Magi Gibson

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  From social and political issues to found poems, Gibson's fresh, evocative (and sometimes provocative) writing is both modern and timeless.
  
  These poems spring from taxis, supermarkets and long car drives through the wind and rain. They spring from fantasies, daydreams, nightmares, from love and hate, but, above all, they exalt and enhance everyday experiences.

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  Damon Runyon Theater - Madame La...

  Damon Runyon

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  The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.  Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America.  Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; He’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.  Runyon described himself as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around".  That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.  It was like you were with him on some street corner hustle or some shady dive and he was filling you in on all the angles, all the gossip, all of life. He was who so many people wanted to be with……or so many people wanted to be.  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 the gathering of stories and facts and actually getting something written just before the deadline hits. That seems like Damon Runyon and his life summed up in one sentence.  His stories became legendary ways of looking that bit differently at America, of soaking up the atmosphere of a glamorous and rip-roaring age and distilling it into black and white type or, in our case, The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.

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  The Outrun (NHB Modern Plays)

  Amy Liptrot

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  A young woman finds herself washed up back home on the Scottish archipelago of Orkney, trying to rebuild her life after a decade of addiction.
  The life she has left behind in London, with all its intoxicating temptations, has pushed her to the point of destruction. Now there is wildness of a different form – an alluring wilderness that she must learn to navigate.
  Speaking to the impact of isolation and loneliness and – ultimately – the resilience of people, Amy Liptrot's bestselling memoir The Outrun has been adapted for the stage by Stef Smith. Directed by Vicky Featherstone, and co-produced by The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh and Edinburgh International Festival, it premiered at the 2024 Festival.
  Amy Liptrot's The Outrun was a Sunday Times bestseller, BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, won the Wainwright Prize and the PEN Ackerley Prize, and was shortlisted for the Wellcome and Ondaatje Prizes.
  'One of Scotland's boldest chroniclers of contemporary women's lives' The Stage on Stef Smith
  'A lyrical, brave memoir… compelling' Guardian on The Outrun

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