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  The Writer (NHB Modern Plays)

  Ella Hickson

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  A young writer challenges the status quo but discovers that creative gain comes at a personal cost.
  She wants to change the shape of the world. But a new way of thinking needs a new story.
  Ella Hickson's new play, The Writer, is a searing exploration of power and patriarchy. It is premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in April 2018, in a production directed by Blanche McIntyre.

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  In the Old Church Tower

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of In the Old Church Tower by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 14, 2012."Very lovely poem." - Caprisha Page"This seems like a nice nostalgic poem of a small town landmark." - Leonard Wilson

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  Henceforward

  Alan Ayckbourn

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  Starring Anne Heche and Jared Harris, the hilarious Henceforward... is one of Alan Ayckbourn’s most unusual works. In the near-future, a composer with creative block tries to re-unite with his estranged wife and daughter, hoping their reconciliation will free his mind to create his greatest musical masterpiece. But his own erratic impulses hinder his journey to creative freedom.
  
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance starring Jared Harris as Jerome, Anne Heche as Nan (act 1) and Corrina, Jack Davenport as Mervyn, Paula Jane Newman as Geain, Moira Quirk as Zoe and Nan (act 2), and Darren Richardson as Lupus. This recording also includes a conversation with playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn.
  
  ©2011 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2011 L.A. Theatre Works

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  Poetry Hour The - Volume 15

  John Dryden, William Morris,...

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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 John Dryden and William Morris as well as themes on Victorian Poetry, August, The Female Poet 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 15 
  John Dryden. An Introduction 
  Farewell Ungrateful Traitor by John Dryden 
  Dreams by John Dryden 
  Alexanders Feast or The Power of Music by John Dryden 
  August 
  August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  At Sundown by Daniel Sheehan 
  A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  Moonlight Summer Moonlight by Emily Jane Bronte 
  August by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 
  The Female Poet. An Introduction. Volume 3 
  Good Night by Mary Gilmore 
  Expecting the Lord by Anne Griffiths  
  My Mother’s Kiss by Frances E W Harper 
  Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe 
  You Kissed Me by Josephine Slocum Hunt 
  The Power of Words by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  Love, The Soul of Poetry by Anne Killigrew 
  The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  Sonnet by Amy Levy 
  Animal Poems – An Introduction 
  The Fly by William Blake 
  The City Mouse and the County Mouse by Christina Rossetti 
  The Owl & the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear 
  A Lobster Quadrille by Lewis Carroll 
  From Baby Tortoise by DH Lawrence 
  William Morris - An Introduction 
  The Earthly Paradise – Apology by William Morris 
  Our Hands Have Met by William Morris 
  The Voice of Toil by William Morris 
  A Garden By the Sea by William Morris 
  The Message of the March Wind by William Morris 
  Victorian Poetry - An Introduction 
  A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy  
  My Prayers Must met A Brazen Heaven by Gerard Manley Hopkins  
  When Summer’s End is Nighing by AE Housman  
  The Mother’s Son by Rudyard Kipling  
  The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear  
  Sonnet XXIX by George Meredith  
  Between the Dusk of a Summer Night by William Ernest Henley

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  The Poetry of James Weldon Johnson

  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.

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  Love Songs - Poetry of Sara...

  Sara Teasdale

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  Sara Teasdale - the winner of one of the earliest Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, winner of the Poetry Society of America prize, and other honors - believed passionately in the power and beauty of love, yet in her own life, love was not enough; she died by her own hand after a long illness. The man she may have loved more than any other, the poet Vachel Lindsay, killed himself two years earlier.Her poetry ranges a full gamut from utter joy to deep loneliness. She expresses herself with utter simplicity: Slowly over the earthThe wings of night are falling My heart like the bird in the tree Is calling... calling... calling.... She can be wonderfully playful, telling a thrush to go call her lover: When he harkens what you say Bid him, lest he miss me Leave his work or leave his play And kiss me, kiss me, kiss me! Her soul valued beauty and love above all else: Oh, let me love with all my strengthCareless if  I am loved again.Like many of America's women poets, she is rather on the back shelf these days, but she deserves better. Enjoy this reading of her poetry! A Freshwater Seas production.

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