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  A Few Figs from Thistles

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

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  A collection of 23 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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  Spooky Poetry

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Spooky Poetry. Or things that go bump in the night!  Poetry has a way of making even the most difficult of subjects or themes that bit easier to handle.  And so it is with spooks and ghouls, ghosts and goblins. In this collection of poems Shakespeare, Kipling Rossetti, Stevenson are just some of the fine minds that take us on an adventure into a World of tense laughter and just around the corner sacredness.  Our readers for this magical journey include Sandi Tosvig, Nigel Planer, Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe

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  The Bhagavad Gita

  Anonymous

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  Sanskrit for ‘Song of the Lord,’ the Bhagavad Gita is a 700-verse Hindu epic that constitutes part of the faith’s vast cornerstone work, the Mahabharata. The book provides timeless truths and indispensible advice for believers trying to overcome internal tensions, doubt and indecision. The teachings are conveyed in the form of a dialogue between the Pandava general Arjuna and the deity Krishna, who helps Arjuna understand his position in the Kurukshetra War, and guides him towards the right course of action. The Gita’s treatment of duty and devotion has inspired many, including the peaceful activist Mahatma Gandhi, who referred to it as his ‘spiritual dictionary.’

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  The Poetry of Trains - A wide...

  Damon Runyon, Amy Lowell,...

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  The mythology of the Train, the Railroad, those two shiny tracks running off into the far distance is a powerful symbol of the industrial age. 
   
  The train was the first mass transit system to network the land and to carry people and materials of every class and of every shape.  A sort of democracy with the only requirement of use being the price of a ticket. 
   
  Poets who grew up with this pulsating leviathan of industry were quick to see its merits for their own lines and verse.   
   
  Across these poems comes both an individual eye across a wide range of feelings, thoughts and ideas as well as, occasionally, the trainspotter’s delight for form and detail from poets such as Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas, Edna St Vincent Millay, Damon Runyon and a host of others. 
   
  1 - The Poetry of Trains - An Introduction 
  2 - A Song of the Rails by Damon Runyon 
  3 - Song of a Train by John Davidson 
  4 - Song of the Rail by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  5 - Rhyme of the Rail by John Godfrey Saxe 
  6 - Up the Line by Will Carleton 
  7 - From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  8 - An Incident in a Railroad Car by Jamers Russell Lowell 
  9 - Railway Times by Martin Faraquar Tupper 
  10 - On the Engine by Night by Alexander Anderson 
  11 - The Night Journey by Rupert Brooke 
  12 - Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  13 - Train Ride by Federico Garcia Lorca 
  14 - The Train by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 
  15 - Homeward Ho! by Ada A Mosher 
  16 - The Rail Road by James Very 
  17 - The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson 
  18 - In the Train by James Thomson 
  19 - The Division Superintendent by Ambrose Bierce 
  20 - The Word of an Engineer by James Weldon Johnson 
  21 - The Train Among the Hills by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 
  22 - The Gospel Train. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 1873 
  23 - The Jaffa and Jerusalem Railway by Eugene Field 
  24 - In the Train and At Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  25 - The Ledbury Train by Radclyffe Hall 
  26 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas 
  27 - The Ancient Arteries of America by Daniel Sheehan 
  28 - Subway Wind by Claude McKay 
  29 - In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound 
  30 - Railway Rhymes by C L Graves 
  31 - What's the Railroad to Me by Henry David Thoreau 
  32 - The Railway Station by Archibald Lampman 
  33 - Thompson's Lunch Room, Grand Central Station by Amy Lowell 
  34 - Faintheart in a Railway Train by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - Song O' the Lost Trains by Damon Runyon 
  36 - The Phantom Train by Tom Hood 
  37 - One of the Unfair Sex by Ambrose Bierce 
  38 - September 1st. 1802 by William Wordsworth 
  39 - Autumn in the Garden by Fredegond Shove 
  40 - A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird 
  41 - In the Train by Sara Teasdale 
  42 - To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman 
  43 - On the Departure Platform by Thomas Hardy 
  44 - Guild Signal by Bret Harte 
  45 - The Send Off by Wilfred Owen

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  Selected Interviews with Robert...

  Robert G. Ingersoll

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  A controversial lecturer, brilliant lawyer, and arguably the most famous orator of the mid to late 1800's, Ingersoll railed against the absurdities of the Bible and cruelties of Christianity, particularly the horrific notion of "eternal damnation". He tirelessly supported the arts, education, science, women’s rights, abolition, home, family, children, and human liberty. As a leader of the Freethought movement, his creed was: “Happiness is the only good, Reason the only torch, Justice the only worship, Humanity the only religion, and Love the only priest.” He was often attacked in the press. Here are 30 published interviews in which Ingersoll spoke extemporaneously, bitingly, sometimes hilariously, on a wide range of topics with newspaper reporters of the day. (Compiled from The Works Of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 8, Dresden Edition, Pub. 1900. Summary by Michele Fry

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  Hippies and Bolsheviks - and...

  Amiel Gladstone

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  Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays collects three works by Amiel Gladstone, introducing a wide range of fascinating characters and a formidable new voice in Canadian drama.
   
  In The Wedding Pool, three single friends in unsatisfactory jobs decide to place a bet on who will marry first. The friends - waitress and wannabe dancer Sylvia, rock critic Miles and inventory manager Dave - open a joint account to which they each contribute $50 a month, the final sum to be collected by the first to tie the knot. But when Miles starts dating the bank teller who opens their account, the friends realize much more is at stake and are forced to consider their individual fears and failings.
   
  In Lena’s Car, a woman whose marriage has stalled reflects on how it got to that point, harkening back to her youth, when she was just a Young Girl in a Small Town Looking for Trouble. Picking over the memories of her adolescence, she attempts to figure out why she ended up in a disintegrating relationship and just when her life became like everyone else's.
   
  Hippies and Bolsheviks set in 1970s British Columbia, a hotbed of hippie idealism, is a comedy based on the big ideas of the long-haired revolution. Star stumbles home from a Led Zeppelin concert with a draft dodger. A bizarre love triangle develops the next morning as Allan (Green Tree), a defector from the same commune Star fled, shows up on her doorstep. As The Establishment gains more ground, three dropouts struggle to hold on to their ideals.
   
  ‘The Wedding Pool is a particularly smart and entertaining example of the thirtysomething angst genre.’
   
  – The Globe and Mail
   
  ‘If Hippies and Bolsheviks is any indication of the quality of work at this year's play Rites Festival, Calgary theatregoers are in for a phenomenal month.’
   
  – Calgary Sun

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