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  Poetry Hour The - Volume 19

  Robert Herrick, Herman Melville,...

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  Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words.  The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one.  But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition.  Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. 
   
  Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children’s textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today.  
   
  Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We’ve put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations.   
   
  In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of Robert Herrick and Herman Melville as well as themes on Westminster Memorials, December and more. 
   
  All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can’t.  Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes.  Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores.  
   
  This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that.   
   
  Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey. 
   
   
  The Poetry Hour – Volume 19 
  Robert Herrick.  An Introduction 
  An Hymn to the Muses by Robert Herrick 
  His Farewell to Sack by Robert Herrick 
  His Return To London by Robert Herrick 
  To Electra by Robert Herrick 
  To Find God by Robert Herrick 
  The Lake Poets. An Introduction 
  Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge  
  Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey 
  I Travell’d Amongst Unknown Men by William Wordsworth 
  It Was An April Morning Fresh And Clear by William Wordsworth 
  December 
  Come, Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  Winter Stores by Charlotte Bronte 
  The Death of the Old Year by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  December 27th 1879 by George MacDonald 
  Herman Melville.  An Introduction 
  John Marr & Other Sailors by Herman Melville 
  Father Mapples Hymn (from Moby Dick) by Herman Melville 
  Gettysburg by Herman Melville 
  The Berg, A Dream by Herman Melville 
  Dupont’s Round Fight, November 1851 by Herman Melville 
  Aurora Borealis by Herman Melville 
  Shelley’s Vision by Herman Melville 
  The March into Virginia by Herman Melville 
  Westminster Memorials – An Introduction 
  First Love by John Clare 
  To an Infant by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  The Village by Oliver Goldsmith 
  His Meditation Upon Death by Robert Herrick 
  Virtue by George Herbert 
  When I Have Fears by John Keats 
  William Shakespeare – A Tribute in Verse 
  On Shakespeare by John Milton 
  Shakespeare by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  The Spirit of Shakespeare by George Meredith 
  Shakespeare by Matthew Arnold

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  The Misandrist (NHB Modern Plays)

  Lisa Carroll

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  When 'intimidating' Rachel and eternal 'nice guy' Nick meet at an awkward work Christmas party, what was meant to be a one-night-stand becomes a sexual odyssey of self-discovery… and mutual destruction.
  Adrift, isolated and insecure, they scramble for new ways to connect. Can some playful, passionate pegging provide a pathway through the pitfalls of modern relationships and present the possibility of a deeper bond?
  A penetrating comedy about the search for sexual knowledge, true love and top-notch Tupperware, Lisa Carroll's play The Misandrist was first produced by Metal Rabbit Productions at the Arcola Theatre, London, in May 2023.
  'A witty dramedy that explores the contemporary search for intimacy… portrays male vulnerability exceptionally well… The writing is delightfully caustic and acerbic… precise, political, unforgiving… unceasingly entertaining' - Broadway World
  'Funny and frank… revelling in its exuberance and the celebration of sexuality… there's a great energy to the show and it offers plenty of saucy humour' - Reviews Hub
  'A no-holds-barred insight into contemporary relationships, laced with sharp lines and dark humour… a zeitgeisty play that shows great promise, and confirms Carroll as a writer to watch' - WhatsOnStage
  'Powerful with some very funny lines... has attitude to spare' - Time Out
  'A smart, passionate and deeply knotty relationship dramedy… alive with warmth and wit… refreshingly transgressive… the writing has a real jagged edge… lays bare the many complications of modern life' - Lost in Theatreland

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  The Power of Two

  Susan Foster, Carl Brewer

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  One of the most compelling figures ever to lace on a pair of skates, Carl Brewer was a gifted skater and stickhandler, renowned for his ability to control the pace of a game and goad opponents into costly errors. His talents made him an NHL All-Star and one of the cornerstones of a Toronto Maple Leafs dynasty. But he was also a loner playing a team game, a free spirit in an era when players were expected not to make waves. Teammates and management alike wrote him off as an eccentric, an enigma. At what should have been the peak of his career, he abandoned the game, embarking on a lifelong search for meaning in his life. Along the way, he met Susan Foster, and together they would discover that purpose. The Power of Two tells the story of how Carl and Susan successfully battled the hockey establishment over the issue of player pensions. Together they uncovered fraud, corruption, and betrayal of trust, ultimately helping bring down the powerful Alan Eagleson. The Power of Two also provides intimate insights into Brewer, who was aptly remembered as a "magnificent, misunderstood fanatic", and his enduring bond with the life partner and ally whose tireless support he depended on.

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  Workman's Dream

  Edgar A. Guest

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  Edgar Albert Guest (20 August 1881 in Birmingham, England – 5 August 1959 in Detroit, Michigan) (aka Eddie Guest) was a prolific English-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's Poet.From his first published work in the Detroit Free Press until his death in 1959, Guest penned some 11,000 poems which were syndicated in some 300 newspapers and collected in more than 20 books, including A Heap o' Livin' (1916) and Just Folks (1917). Guest was made Poet Laureate of Michigan, the only poet to have been awarded the title. - Summary by Wikipedia

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  Living in the Tall Grass - Poems...

  R. Stacy Laforme

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  In Living in the Tall Grass: Poems of Reconciliation audiobook, Chief Stacey Laforme performs his poems that tell a history of his people and let people see through the eyes of Indigenous people. In it, he hits hard on matters of residential schools, the environment, suicide among Indigenous youth, domestic abuse, and so on, but also writes poems of love and hope.

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  Blue Heart (NHB Modern Plays)

  Caryl Churchill

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  Two exhilarating and teasingly entertaining one-act plays from one of the UK's leading playwrights.
  Heart's Desire sees a family awaiting their daughter's return from Australia, though in a series of alternative scenarios, the play collapses as it keeps veering off in unexpected and ridiculous directions.
  Blue Kettle tells the story of conman Derek and the five women he misleads into believing he is their biological son. Try as he might, Derek's plans are scuppered as the play is invaded by a virus.
  In Caryl Churchill's ever-inventive style, the two plays in Blue Heart pull apart language and structure in a way that is theatrically remarkable and fast paced, in a stirring yet truthful exploration of family and relationships.
  This edition was published alongside the first major revival of Blue Heart, nearly twenty years after its Royal Court premiere, in a co-production by the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, and Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol, in 2016.

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