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  Weighing the Present

  Michael Laskey

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  Weighing the Present includes poems about family and wider society, often through brilliantly evoked particular details and specific scenes from 'everyday life'. Short linked poems, which amount almost to sequences, deal with difficult material - elegies for lost friends for instance - while still remaining somehow lifeaffirming. At the heart of the book are tender but unsentimental love poems.
  
  A new collection from Michael Laskey is always a cause for celebration.

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  Short Story Press Presents Ghost...

  Short Story Press, Isabella Bailey

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  "Prowler" is a marriage of supernatural horror and psychological thriller, a story about how our personal issues can manifest in strange and unnerving ways. 
  • Our protagonist, Victoria, is a successful businesswoman. 
  • She has a history of mental illness, but that's behind her now, despite what her distant husband might say. 
  • What starts out as a normal day at the office is turned upside down by the appearance of a mysterious figure that only Victoria can see. 
  • It soon becomes clear that this being, whatever it is, is following her. 
  • As Victoria tries to make the creature go away, her demons begin to creep up on her again. 
  Surrounded by people who don't believe her and struggling to keep herself together, can Victoria figure out who this being is before her sanity deteriorates? 
  About The Writer 
  Isabella Bailey is a senior at New York University, where she studies film and television. A lifelong storyteller, she began to write when she was in the first grade, and has been honing her craft ever since. She was first published in Excellence, a 2006 poetry compilation, and her writing has since appeared in places such as Baedeker Travel Magazine, 401kWire.com, MFWire.com, and Mindfray.com. Her television screenplays were finalists in both the 2017 and 2019 Fusion Film Festivals, and is writing a novel in her spare time. She hopes to continue to professionally pursue narrative storytelling, and is thrilled to share her work here. 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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  The Rape of the Lock

  Pope Alexander

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  The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 1712 in two cantos (334 lines), but then revised, expanded and reissued under Pope's name on March 2, 1714, in a much-expanded 5-canto version (794 lines). The final form was available in 1717 with the addition of Clarissa's speech on good humour. The poem satirizes a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of the gods. It was based on an incident recounted by Pope's friend, John Caryll. Arabella Fermor and her suitor, Lord Petre, were both from aristocratic recusant Catholic families at a period in England when under such laws as the Test Act, all denominations except Anglicanism suffered legal restrictions and penalties (for example Petre could not take up his place in the House of Lords as a Catholic). Petre, lusting after Arabella, had cut off a lock of her hair without permission, and the consequent argument had created a breach between the two families. Pope, also a Catholic, wrote the poem at the request of friends in an attempt to "comically merge the two." He utilized the character Belinda to represent Arabella and introduced an entire system of "sylphs," or guardian spirits of virgins, a parodied version of the gods and goddesses of conventional epic. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  A Shropshire Lad

  Alfred Edward Housman

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  A Shropshire Lad contains 63 poems by Housman which talk about mortality and living life to the full.

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  Jerusalem (NHB Modern Plays)

  Jez Butterworth

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  A comic, contemporary vision of life in England's green and pleasant land. Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play, and the Critics Circle and Whatsonstage.com Awards for Best New Play.
  
  On St George's Day, the morning of the local country fair, Johnny 'Rooster' Byron, local waster and Lord of Misrule, is a wanted man. The council officials want to serve him an eviction notice, his son wants to be taken to the fair, a vengeful father wants to give him a serious kicking, and a motley crew of mates wants his ample supply of drugs and alcohol.
  Jerusalem premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2009, directed by Ian Rickson and starring Mark Rylance in an astonishing performance as Johnny Byron. It transferred to the West End in 2010.
  
  'Unarguably one of the best dramas of the twenty-first century' Guardian
  
  'Tender, touching, and blessed with both a ribald humour and a haunting sense of the mystery of things... one of the must-see events of the summer' Telegraph
  
  'Jez Butterworth's gorgeous, expansive new play keeps coming at its audience in unpredictable gusts, rolling from comic to furious, from winsome to bawdy' Observer
  
  'Storming... restores one's faith in the power of theatre' Independent
  'Show of the year'Time Out

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  Angels (NHB Modern Plays)

  Ronan O'Donnell

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  An uproarious underworld whodunit, Ronan O'Donnell's single-hander reworks the hardboiled crime thriller for our times.
  A suspicious death at the workplace and loner security guard Nick Prentice is hauled in for interrogation. The Inspector thinks he's got his man, as Nick's seedy wee 'stories' seem to nail him to the crime. Is he complicit in the death of two-bit shoplifter Gary Glover? Will Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson come to his rescue?
  'Ronan O'Donnell writes in muscular, imagistic language that throws a light on the underclasses in Leith today' - British Theatre Guide
  'Poetic genius…brilliantly directed…performance of a lifetime' - The Scotsman
  'a powerfully atmospheric and bleakly comic piece of theatre' - The Herald Scotland

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