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  Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems

  Charlotte Turner Smith

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  Charlotte Turner Smith (1749 – 1806) was an English poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility.It was in 1784, in debtor's prison with her husband Benjamin, that she wrote and published her first work, Elegiac Sonnets. The work achieved instant success, allowing Charlotte to pay for their release from prison. Smith's sonnets helped initiate a revival of the form and granted an aura of respectability to her later novels.Stuart Curran, the editor of Smith's poems, has written that Smith is "the first poet in England whom in retrospect we would call Romantic". She helped shape the "patterns of thought and conventions of style" for the period. Romantic poet William Wordsworth was the most affected by her works. He said of Smith in the 1830s that she was "a lady to whom English verse is under greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered". By the second half of the nineteenth century, however, Smith was largely forgotten.

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  Oslo

  J.T. Rogers

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  1993In this rollicking take on modern diplomacy, a Norwegian social scientist and his diplomat wife are determined to try a new tactic to break the long-standing deadlock of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. A secret back channel in Norway leads to unexpected breakthroughs as negotiators find common ground. When the political becomes personal, relationships are forged that offer a chance to alter the course of history.Includes a conversation about the Oslo Accords with Steven Spiegel, Director of the Center for Middle East Development at UCLA.Lead funding for Oslo is generously provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation.Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in April 2019.Directed by Brian KiteProducing Director Susan Albert LoewenbergAnthony Azizi as Ahmed Qurie (Abu Ala)Josh Bitton as Uri Savir and othersEdita Brychta as Marianne Heiberg, Toril Grandal, Swedish Hostess, German WifeJD Cullum as Terje Rød-LarsenMatthew Floyd Miller as Johan Jorgen Holst, Joel SingerDarren Richardson as Jan Egeland, Ron Pundak, Trond GundersonAndré Sogliuzzo as Yossi Beilin, Finn Grandal, Thor Bjornevog, American Diplomat, German HusbandDevon Sorvari as Mona JuulMichel Wakim as Hassan Asfour and othersKevin Weisman as Yair Hirschfeld, Shimon PeresAssociate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Foley Artist, Brian Wallace. Production Manager, Daniel Trostler. Editor, Julian Nicholson.

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  The Fetch

  Gregory Leadbetter

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  Gregory Leadbetter's first full collection of poems, The Fetch, brings together poems that reach through language to the mystery of our being, giving voice to silence and darkness, illuminating the unseen. With their own rich alchemy, these poems combine the sensuous and the numinous, the lyric and the mythic.
  
  Ranging from invocation to elegy, from ghost poems to science fiction, Leadbetter conjures and quickens the wild and the weird. His poems bring to life a theatre of awakenings and apprehensions, of births and becoming, of the natural and the transnatural, where life and death meet. Powerful, imaginative, and precisely realised, The Fetch is also poignant and humane – animated by love, alive with the forces of renewal.
  'The Fetch is a terrific, precise and dazzling collection. The whole book exemplifies a poetry of being that shows what is possible when we allow ourselves to be fully human in our perception and poetry.' – David Morley

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  Poems for Men - A volume of...

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert...

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  Do men need poems? 
   
  Is the gender of brawn and ‘can-do’ really a candidate for honeyed verse? 
   
  Obviously yes.  Through the centuries men seem to dominate the writing of poetry. From books of epics to quatrains of love poetry it seemed to be a man’s world.  His domain. 
   
  But take away the stirring deeds of adventure and much of what remains was written in the admiration or pursuit of women. 
   
  A volume purely for men, to show other facets of their personalities and characters seems to be an obvious choice.  One verse fits all is, in fact, far removed from the truth. 
   
  Men needs words. They need support, understanding as well as goals, ambition and structure.  They need purpose, desire; the need to love and be loved.

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  More American

  Sharon Hashimoto

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  Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Winner of the 2021 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. In MORE AMERICAN, poet Sharon Hashimoto reconstructs a collective memory, conjuring the voices of grandparents, children, soldiers, and "those left to tell." In moving detail, these poems convey the realities of assimilation, service, and internment as experienced by Japanese Americans during, and in the decades following, the Second World War. In this stunning second collection, Hashimoto reckons with the limitations of language, and by extension, notions of citizenship. She deftly sounds the dissonances in the language of loyalty and allegiance.

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  The Recruiting Officer - Full...

  George Farquhar

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  The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding.
  The Recruiting Officer is a Restoration Comedy with a real heart and soul.
  Captain Plume arrives in Shrewsbury to recruit new soldiers. He falls for Sylvia - against her father's wishes. Rather than be sent away, Sylvia disguises herself as a man and so learns more about Plume than he would really like.
  Edited and introduced by Simon Trussler.

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