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  Mumsy (NHB Modern Plays)

  Lydia Marchant

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  Sophie is about to become a single mum – a third-generation one – and she's terrified. How will she afford to feed her baby? Or a Deluxe Snuggle Pod? Can she hold on to her job? What if she's crap at parenthood? Surely she can count on her own mum and nan to help...
  Except her mum's got used to having a life of her own, and doesn't fancy giving up pole-dancing class and Tinder to go back to changing nappies and no sleep. Meanwhile, fresh out of hospital with a broken leg, her nan's having a three-quarter-life crisis of her own.
  From slammed doors to living-room karaoke, Lydia Marchant's play Mumsy is a sparky, soulful comedy drama about the highs and lows of motherhood. It premiered at Hull Truck Theatre in March 2023.
  'A brilliant bittersweet comedy with plenty of ribald humour... Without sermonising, Marchant demonstrates the impact of a decade of Tory austerity amid a cost of living crisis... It's a skill to write across generations like this... Marchant's play is a bundle of joy' - Guardian
  'A striking debut... beautifully balanced between comedy and tragedy... a tender exploration of the power of connection and perseverance' - The Stage
  'Raw, real and utterly Northern... as homely and refreshing as a mug of Yorkshire Tea' - Reviews Hub
  'Masterful... whip-crack funny... a play with a huge heart... a brilliant piece of theatre' - Hull Is This

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  The Bone Sparrow (NHB Modern...

  Zana Fraillon

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  Subhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention centre after his mother fled the violence of a distant homeland, life behind the fences is all he's ever known. Now his imagination is pushing at the limits of his world.
  One day, Jimmie appears on the other side of the fence, bringing a notebook written by the mother she lost. Unable to read it, she relies on Subhi to unravel her own family's mysterious and moving history. Together, Subhi and Jimmie must find a way to freedom, and they must be braver than they've ever been before...
  The Bone Sparrow, Zana Fraillon's powerful and deeply moving novel about the displacement and treatment of refugees and sanctuary seekers, has been widely read and studied around the world since its publication in 2017.
  This enthralling stage adaptation by award-winning Australian playwright S. Shakthidharan was first produced on a UK tour in 2022 by Pilot Theatre with York Theatre Royal, Derby Theatre, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, and Mercury Theatre Colchester.
  Also included: a range of teaching materials and resources designed to help educators bring the play to life for their students.
  Praise for the novel, The Bone Sparrow:
  'With an affecting and distinctive narrative voice... [Zana Fraillon] builds a convincing and complete world. Moving and memorable, The Bone Sparrow deserves to be read by all who care about our common humanity' Guardian
  'A heartrending tale about how our stories make us, and also an angry polemic, vividly convincing in its detailed description of what it means for your home to be a tent in the dust behind a guarded fence' Sunday Times
  'This is a tragic, beautifully crafted and wonderful book whose chirpy, stoic hero shames us all' Independent
  Winner of the Amnesty CILIP Honour Award
  Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
  'Powerful... such stories are as necessary as ever' - Guardian
  'Powerful and moving... the writing soul-shakingly communicates the truthfulness of the characters' experiences' - Observer
  'A timely reminder of our unseeing cruelty towards those forced out of their homes by war, genocide, or other atrocities' - British Theatre Guide

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  Baby Dolls (NHB Modern Plays)

  Tamara von Werthern

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  A futuristic comedy about conception, state control and rebellion.
  Three women meet at a baby shower. But darker things than cupcakes and babygrows are on their mind.

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  The Poetry of John Milton -...

  John Milton

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  John Milton was born in Bread Street, London, on December 9th, 1608.  His early years were privately tutored before gaining a place at St Paul’s School and in 1625 he matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge, earning a BA in 1629 and an MA in 1632. At Cambridge he had developed a reputation for poetic skill but also experienced alienation from his peers and university life as a whole.  
  The next 6 years were spent in private study. He read both ancient and modern works of theology, philosophy, history, politics, literature and science, in preparation for a poetical career.  Milton mastered Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, Spanish, and Italian. To these he would add Old English (whilst researching his History of Britain) and also acquired more than a passing acquaintance in Dutch.  
  Although he was studying, some of his poetry from this time is remarkable; L’Allegro and Il Penseroso in 1631 and Lycidias in 1638. 
  In May 1638, Milton embarked upon a 15 month tour of France and Italy. These travels added a new and direct experience of artistic and religious traditions, especially Roman Catholicism.  He cut the journey short to return home during the summer of 1639 because of what he claimed were "sad tidings of civil war in England."  
  Once home, Milton wrote prose tracts against episcopacy, in the service of the Puritan and Parliamentary cause.  
  He married 16-year-old Mary Powell in June 1643 but she left him after only a few months during which he wrote and published several writings on divorce. Mary did return after 3 years and their life thereafter seemed harmonious.  Milton received a hostile response to the divorce tracts and drove him to write Areopagitica, his celebrated attack on pre-printing censorship.  
  With the parliamentary victory in the Civil War, Milton wrote The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649) which defended popular government and implicitly sanctioned the regicide which led to his appointment as Secretary for Foreign Tongues by the Council of State.  
  On 24 February 1652 Milton published his Latin defense of the English People, Defensio Pro Populo Anglicano, also known as the First Defense. Milton's Latin prose and intellectual sweep, quickly gained him a European reputation.  
  Tragically his first wife, Mary, died on May 5th, 1652 following the birth of their fourth child.   The following year Milton had become totally blind, probably due to glaucoma.  He then had to dictate his verse and prose to helpers, one of whom was the poet Andrew Marvell. 
  He married again to Katherine Woodcock but she died in February 1658, less than four months after giving birth to a daughter, who also tragically died.  
  Though Cromwell’s death in 1658 caused the English Republic to collapse Milton stubbornly clung to his beliefs and in 1659 he published A Treatise of Civil Power, attacking the concept of a state-dominated church. Upon the Restoration in May 1660, Milton went into hiding for his life. An arrest warrant was issued and his writings burnt. He re-emerged after a general pardon was issued, but was nevertheless arrested and briefly imprisoned before influential friends, such as Marvell, now an MP, intervened 
  His third marriage was to Elizabeth Mynshull. Despite a 31-year age gap, the marriage seemed happy and Milton spent the remaining decade of his life living quietly in London, apart from a short spell in Chalfont St. Giles, during the Great Plague of London.  
  Milton was to now publish his greatest works, which had been gestating for many years.

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  St David's Day - A Holiday in Verse

  Alun Lewis, Dafydd ap Gwilym, W....

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  It comes as no surprise to the average Welsh person that their culture continues to thrive despite centuries of seeming servitude to the English.  Wales, exemplified by the symbol of the Welsh dragon, is a small proud nation of many talents, large imaginations and even bigger hearts. 
   
  Saint David's Day, or the Feast of Saint David falls on the 1st March each year on the anniversary of his death in 589 AD. The feast has been regularly celebrated since his canonisation in the 12th century. 
   
  Traditional festivities include wearing the symbols of Wales and St David; daffodils and leeks, eating the National dish of cawl, a thick heartwarming soup, as well as the classic Welsh rarebit, and parades throughout the day featuring the traditional dress. 
   
  The pride in its culture and history is keenly felt and in this volume the poets of Wales through the ages bring verse that fortifies and uplifts the soul of a nation and its much admired literary merits.  
  1 - St David's Day - A Holiday in Verse  - An Introduction 
  2 - Grongar Hill by John Dyer 
  3 - Home, Fair Was The Morning Fair Our Tempers by Edward Thomas 
  4 - The Waterfall  by Henry Vaughan 
  5 - Sweet Empty Sky of June by Henry Vaughan 
  6 - from Chepstow - A Poem - Tinturn Abbey by Edward Davies 
  7 - The Grey Steed by Gwerfyl Mechain 
  8 - The Fox by Robert Williams Parry 
  9 - On a Mountain Tumulus by Dafydd ap Gwilym 
  10 - Llyn Y Gadair by T H Parry-Williams 
  11 - Plynlimmon by Lewis Glyn Cothi 
  12 - The Kingfisher by W H Davies 
  13 - In May by William Henry Davies 
  14 - Cock Crow by Edward Thomas 
  15 - All Day It Has Rained by Alun Lewis 
  16 - from Education In Wales by Rowland Williams 
  17 - Here's the Life I’ve Sigh’d For Long by Iolo Goch 
  18 - The Depression by David Gwenalt-Jones 
  19 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones 
  20 - In Praise of Wales by Talhaiarn 
  21 - Praise of a Girl by Huw Morus 
  22 - A Fleeting Passion by William Henry Davies 
  23 - Song of the Worker's Wife by Alice Gray Jones 
  24 - from The Happy Farmer by Iolo Morganwg 
  25 - Miners by Wilfred Owen 
  26 - This Poor Man by William John Gruffydd 
  27 - Old Man by Edward Thomas 
  28 - Wondrous Sight For Men by Ann Griffiths 
  29 - Has Your Soul Sipped by Wilfred Owen 
  30 - Faith by George Herbert 
  31 - Apologia Pro Poemate Meo by Wilfred Owen 
  32 - Exposure by Wilfred Owen 
  33 - War by Hedd Wyn 
  34 - There's An Open Door by Ann Griffiths 
  35 - The Immovable Covenant by Hugh Derfel 
  36 - The Black Spot by Hedd Wyn 
  37 - Expecting The Lord by Ann Griffiths 
  38 - Church Monuments by George Herbert 
  39 - A Flower Sunday Lullaby by Eiffion Wynn 
  40 - Virtue by George Herbert 
  41 - Hymn XLI by William Williams Pantycelyn 
  42 - Song to Mead by Taliesin 
  43 - The Owl Disturbs the Bard's Sleep by Dafydd ap Gwilym 
  44 - The Perishing World. From 'The Sleeping Bard' by Elis Wynn 
  45 - Lullaby by Roberty Bryan 
  46 - The Fold of the Bards Book of Taliesin 
  47 - from Arthur's Passing by Thomas Gwynn Jones 
  48 - An Elegy on the Death of Llywelyn ab Gruyffyd by Gruffydd ap Yr Ynad Coch 
  49 - In Memory of Mair Eluned by T Marchant Williams 
  50 - Goodbye by Alun Lewis 
  51 - Friends Departed by Henry Vaughan

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  The Window on the Hill

  Madison Cawein

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Window on the Hill by Madison Julius Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 22, 2012.Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the fifth child of William and Christiana (Stelsly) Cawein. His father made patent medicines from herbs. Cawein thus became acquainted with and developed a love for local nature as a child. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. He worked there for six years, saving his pay so he could return home to write. His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. He soon earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". He was popular enough that, by 1900, he told the Louisville Courier-Journal that his income from publishing poetry in magazines amounted to about $100 a month (Summary by Wikipedia)

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