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  Rhyme A Dozen A - Music - 12...

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rainer...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  01 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Music - An Introduction 
  02 - Music's Empire by Andrew Marvell 
  03 - Music When Soft Voices Die by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  04 - If Music Be the Food of Love by William Shakespeare 
  05 - Power of Music by William Wordsworth 
  06 - The Strange Music by G K Chesterton 
  07 - For Music by Lord Byron 
  08 - To Music by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  09 - On Music by Thomas Moore 
  10 - Music by Wilfred Owen 
  11 - To Music, To Becalm His Fever by Robert Herrick 
  12 - The Musicians by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  13 - I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman

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  All Hail the Glorious Night (and...

  Kevin Carey

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  For many years, Christmas has been inspired poets and composers. Carols and poems are an essential part of the season of good will. Many of them are familiar and an important part of the annual celebrations, yet there is also a need for new material to offer new insights into the familiar story.
  
   
  In this book Kevin Carey has combined his four earlier volumes of illustrated Christmas poetry with a new selection of poems and songs for all who are looking for new inspiration at Christmas time and beyond.

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  Sharks in the Rivers

  Ada Limón

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  “A wonderful book” from the National Book Award for Poetry finalist that explores themes of dislocation and danger (Bob Hicok, author of Red Rover, Red Rover). 
   
  The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family’s roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion—both toward and away from us—and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Ada Limón reminds us, even rats find themselves trapped by the garbage cans they’ve crawled into.  
   
  In such a world, how should one proceed? Throughout Sharks in the Rivers, Limón suggests that we must cleave to the world as it “keep[s] opening before us,” for, if we pay attention, we can be one with its complex, ephemeral, and beautiful strangeness. Loss is perpetual, and each person’s mouth “is the same / mouth as everyone’s, all trying to say the same thing.” For Limón, it’s the saying—individual and collective—that transforms each of us into “a wound overcome by wonder,” that allows “the wind itself” to be our “own wild whisper.” 
   
  “Through the steamy, thorny undergrowth, up through the cold concrete, under the swift river, Limon soars and twirls like a bird, high on heart.” —Jennifer L. Knox, author of Crushing It

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  King Charles III (West End...

  Mike Bartlett

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  Mike Bartlett's controversial 'future history play' explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain's most famous family.
  Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule?
  Drawing on the style and structure of a Shakespearean history play, King Charles III opened at London's Almeida Theatre, directed by its Artistic Director Rupert Goold, in 2014, before transferring to the West End.
  'outstanding and provocative' the most spectacular, gripping and wickedly entertaining piece of lese-majeste that British theatre has ever seen' - Telegraph
  'bold, brilliant and unstoppably entertaining' an intelligent, empathetic, moving look at the power and limitations of the modern monarchy' theatre doesn't get much better than this' - The Times
  'extraordinary' a meaty, hilarious, dizzyingly audacious state of the nation political thriller' - Time Out
  'royally entertaining' raises fascinating questions about the future of the monarchy' - Guardian

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  Measure for Measure

  William Shakespeare

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  Duke Vincentio has given his deputy Angelo temporary power over Vienna before his leave for a diplomatic mission. But instead of leaving the city, the Duke disguises himself as a friar named Lodowick, and stays behind to observe the city's happenings and Angelo's brief reign.
  Meanwhile, Angelo decides to enforce the laws on prostitution and debauchery, effectively shutting down the red-light district. A man named Claudio gets arrested for impregnating his lover, and Angelo sentences him to death. Claudio's sister enlists a certain friar's help to trick Angelo into releasing her brother.

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  Kashmiri Song

  Laurence Hope

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  Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory) was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. Her father was employed in the British army at Lahore and she left for India in 1881 to join her father.In 1901, she published Garden of Kama, which was published a year later in America under the title India's Love Lyrics. She attempted to pass these off as translations of various poets, but this claim soon fell under suspicion. Her poems often used imagery and symbols from the poets of the North-West Frontier of India and the Sufi poets of Persia. She was among the most popular romantic poets of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Her poems are typically about unrequited love and loss and often, the death that followed such an unhappy state of affairs. Many of them have an air of autobiography or confession. - Summary by Wikipedia

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