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  Bird (NHB Modern Plays)

  Katherine Chandler

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  Ava and Tash are up on a cliff, looking out at the flocking birds – and at their future. On the cusp of adulthood and about to leave the care home they've shared, the two friends road-test their impending freedom and living in the outside world.
  Ava must confront the mother she left behind. Tash will have to look for a new home. And both girls will go on living dangerously with the men who surround them.
  Raw, delicate and bold, Bird is a story of growing up outside a family but inside the fiercest of friendships. It was the winner of a Judges' Award in the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and premiered at Sherman Cymru in 2016 before transferring to the Royal Exchange, Manchester.

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  The Georgian Poets

  Rupert Brooke, G. K. Chesterton,...

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  As a poetical movement Georgian Poetry is easy to classify.  It began naturally enough in 1910 when George V ascended to the throne of England.  Edward Marsh, a civil servant, polymath and arts patron decided that the verse of that time needed to be seen in its own right and from 1912 – 1922 set out to publish anthologies. Marsh agreed a deal with the poet and bookseller Harold Munro, who had recently opened The Poetry Bookshop in London’s Devonshire Street to publish the books in return for a share of the profits.   Five volumes spanning some forty poets ranging from Rupert Brooke to GK Chesterton and DH Lawrence were published over the years and remain today the encyclopaedia of this poetical period.  In this volume you will find the best work of the Georgian Poets.

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  The Pemmican Eaters

  Marilyn Dumont

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  A picture of the Riel Resistance from one of Canada’s preeminent Métis poets
  
  With a title derived from John A. Macdonald’s moniker for the Métis, The Pemmican Eaters explores Marilyn Dumont’s sense of history as the dynamic present. Combining free verse and metered poems, her latest collection aims to recreate a palpable sense of the Riel Resistance period and evoke the geographical, linguistic/cultural, and political situation of Batoche during this time through the eyes of those who experienced the battles, as well as through the eyes of Gabriel and Madeleine Dumont and Louis Riel.
  
  Included in this collection are poems about the bison, seed beadwork, and the Red River Cart, and some poems employ elements of the Michif language, which, along with French and Cree, was spoken by Dumont’s ancestors. In Dumont’s The Pemmican Eaters, a multiplicity of identities is a strengthening rather than a weakening or diluting force in culture.

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  Fidget

  Kenneth Goldsmith

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  Fidget is writer Kenneth Goldsmith's transcription of every movement made by his body during 13 hours on Bloomsday (June 16) 1997. It is a hypnotic work, strangely compelling and disorienting at the same time; you'll never think about your body in the same way again.
   
  Originally commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art as a collaboration with vocalist Theo Bleckmann, Fidget attempts to reduce the body to a catalogue of mechanical movements by a strict act of observation. The stress of this rigorous exercise creates a condition of shifting reference points and multiple levels of observation that inevitably undermines the author's objective approach, and the trajectory of the work begins to change.
   
  The text of Fidget is followed by an afterword written by Marjorie Perloff, which both explains the circumstances of the project's creation (including the important role Jack Daniel's plays in the latter part of the text) and explores its results.

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  Halcyon Days (NHB Modern Plays)

  Deirdre Kinahan

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  An uplifting, bittersweet drama set in a nursing home, celebrating friendship and the human spirit.
  A nursing-home conservatory. Sean sits alone, abandoned to his memories. In storms Patricia, a feisty woman with a zest for life and for handsome men in wheelchairs. A wary intimacy develops between the two, an unforeseen relationship, by turns charming and combative, tender and funny.
  Infused with wry humour and humanity, Deirdre Kinahan's Halcyon Days is a celebration of our quest for meaning in even the most seemingly hopeless of circumstances.
  'a touching drama... what distinguishes Kinahan's play - what gives it its pulse - is its finely-drawn characters' - The Irish Times
  'straightforwardly honest and touching... there's a wonderful balance between humour and poignancy here, and even within the humour, a rich blend of both unintentional hilarity and insightful wit' - Entertainment.ie

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  The Poetry of James Weldon...

  James Weldon Johnson

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  James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida on June 17th 1871.  His mother, Helen, a musician and a public school teacher initially home-schooled him giving him a love of both English literature and European music.  
   
  At 16 his education moved to Atlanta University and he graduated with a degree in 1894.   
   
  In 1904 Johnson helped in Theodore Roosevelt's presidential bid.  On winning Roosevelt appointed him as US consul at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela in 1906 and then Nicaragua from 1909.  
   
  Johnson worked for the NAACP from 1916 as a field secretary, organizing local chapters.  To counter race riots and lynching’s he organized mass demonstrations, such as a silent protest parade of over ten thousand African Americans down New York’s Fifth Avenue in July 1917.  
   
  In 1920 Johnson was elected to manage the NAACP, the first African American to hold this position.  That same year he was dispatched to monitor conditions in Haiti and described in The Nation the brutal occupation and also offered remedies. During the 1920’s he was one of the major inspirations of the Harlem Renaissance 
   
  In the midst of all this he continued to write novels, poems, and folklore. In 1917, he saw published ‘50 Years and Other Poems’.  In 1922, he edited ‘The Book of American Negro Poetry’, which the Academy of American Poets calls "a major contribution to the history of African-American literature." In 1927 followed ‘God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse’.  
   
  One of the first African-American professors at NYU he was also, later, a professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University. His career spanned several elements; education, the diplomatic corps, civil rights activism, literature, poetry, and music.  
   
  James Weldon Johnson died on June 26th, 1938 whilst vacationing in Wiscasset, Maine when his car was hit by a train. 
   
  01 - The Poetry of James Weldon Johnson 
  02 - Mother Night by James Weldon Johnson 
  03 - Brothers. American Drama by James Weldon Johnson 
  04 - A Poet to His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson 
  05 - O Black and Unknown Bards by James Weldon Johnson 
  06 - Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson 
  07 - I Hear the Stars Still Singing by James Weldon Johnson 
  08 - A Mid-Day Dreamer by James Weldon Johnson 
  09 - Morning, Noon and Night by James Weldon Johnson 
  10 - The Temptress by James Weldon Johnson 
  11 - Venus in the Garden by James Weldon Johnson 
  12 - The White Witch by James Weldon Johnson 
  13 - Beauty That Is Never Old by James Weldon Johnson 
  14 - Before A Painting by James Weldon Johnson 
  15 - The Awakening by James Weldon Johnson 
  16 - The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face by James Weldon Johnson 
  17 - Her Eyes, Twin Pools by James Weldon Johnson 
  18 - Down By The Carib Sea by James Weldon Johnson 
  19 - Deep in the Quiet Wood by James Weldon Johnson 
  20 - O Southland by James Weldon Johnson 
  21 - Fifty Years (1863 - 1913) by James Weldon Johnson 
  22 - The Suicide by James Weldon Johnson 
  23 - And the Greatest of These Is War by James Weldon Johnson 
  25 - Sonnet by James Weldon Johnson 
  26 - To America by James Weldon Johnson 
  27 - Life by James Weldon Johnson 
  28 - Ghosts of the Old Year by James Weldon Johnson 
  29 - Lazy by James Weldon Johnson 
  30 - The Word of an Engineer by James Weldon Johnson 
  31 - The Creation by James Weldon Johnson 
  32 - Prayer At Sunrise by James Weldon Johnson 
  33 - Listen Lord, A Prayer by James Weldon Johnson 
  34 - The Reward by James Weldon Johnson 
  35 - Sleep by James Weldon Johnson 
  36 - Go Down Death by James Weldon Johnson

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