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  John Keats - A Tribute in Verse

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sara...

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  Keats.  The name is synonymous with great romantic poetry and great romantic poets.  A short life but a legacy of works that few, if any, can rival. 
  And of course his end was to be tragically romantic.  Keats was returning one night to his home in Hampstead when he coughed.  He coughed a single drop of blue blood upon his hand and said ‘I know the colour of that blood, it is arterial blood, it is my death warrant, I must die’. 
  And so it was that tuberculosis took its slow, devastating hold.  He moved to Rome hoping the warmer climate would help but died, at age 25, in the Eternal City in 1821. 
  His death robbed the world of its young and beautifully talented wordsmith.  Such was the esteem among his fellow poets that so many wrote of the joy of his works and the grief of his death. 
  This is their tribute.

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  Poets of the Early 20th Century...

  Edna St. Vincent Millay,...

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  In England the Victorian Age was about to become the past and a new age of worldwide wars of horror and slaughter would envelop and decimate generations, forever staining mankind.   
   
  The Century would see the World discover strengths. The Democracies would stand firm against Fascism and later Communism yet still keep its own elite and privileged in power and the rest of us underfoot. 
   
  The World was more connected than ever before.  Culture accelerated its kaleidoscopic and interwoven journey. Transport delivered people by car and train and then aeroplane to far flung corners of the globe.  Empires were at their zenith and ready to fragment with new nations, many troubled, rising from their decay. 
   
  The natural world continued to be plundered and pillaged for its resources by industries who pledged ‘more’ and ‘better’ and would clothe and feed a growing world yet sow the seeds now ready to devastate us in our current times. 
   
  The globe was as vibrant and violent as troubled and tarnished as it ever was.  But new ideas, new political systems, new times changed everything once again. 
    
  For our wordsmiths there was much to write about, much to contemplate. Poetry was moving from its grand established forms to experiment with others; The Imagists; The Modernists.  Poetry seemed to be everywhere and from everyone.   
   
  Ivanova, Owen, Mansfield to Millay and McKay.  These are but a few of this rich, diverse wave that with mere words bring treasures beyond compare.

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  Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)...

  Jane Austen

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  This unique take on Jane Austen's beloved novel is an adaptation like no other, drawing on over two hundred years of romantic pop history, and featuring six young women with a story to tell.
  You might have seen them before, emptying the chamber pots and sweeping ash from the grate; the overlooked and the undervalued making sure those above stairs find their happy ending.
  Of course, these women have always been running the show – after all, 'You can't have a whirlwind romance without clean bedding' – but now the servants are also playing every part. Let the ruthless match-making begin!
  Isobel McArthur's acclaimed Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) was first produced by theatre company Blood of the Young and seen at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in 2018. It toured the UK in 2019, produced by the two companies and the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, with co-producers Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Leeds Playhouse, Northern Stage, Nuffield Theatres Southampton and Oxford Playhouse.
  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an amateur company in want of an irreverent all-female adaptation of a literary classic to perform, need look no further.
  'Unfettered joy from start to finish' - Herald
  'A have-your-cake-and-eat-it adaptation in which the gags are plentiful even when the stakes are high' - Guardian
  'Clever, funny, feminist, and not even shy, in the end, of a few powerful moments of true romance' - Scotsman

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  Chinese Whispers - Poems

  John Ashbery

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  John Ashbery’s restless, witty meditation on aging and the music of change: A must-read collection from America’s greatest modern poetThe child’s game Chinese Whispers, known in America as Telephone, is an exercise in transforming the recognizable into something beautifully strange. John Ashbery’s twenty-fourth collection of poems, Chinese Whispers, re-creates in every line the accidentally transformative logic of the language game for which the book is named. In sixty-three charged and often very funny poems, Ashbery confronts the relentlessness of age and time while demonstrating, in his unmistakable, self-reflexive style, the process by which a single thought unravels, multiplies, distends, travels, and finally arrives, changed and unfamiliar. First published in 2002, shortly after Ashbery’s seventy-fifth birthday, Chinese Whispers is a collection in which fairy tales, mysteries, and magic dollhouses interleave effortlessly with the everyday of pancakes and popular culture. Ashbery’s language is absolutely recognizable from modern life as it is experienced, but at the same time is as dreamlike and disquieting as intercepted transmissions from another world. 

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  Food (NHB Modern Plays)

  Joel Horwood, Christopher Heimann

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  A play about celebrity chefs and the price you have to pay for ambition, from the Imaginary Body, the team behind the smash hit '100'.
  Winner of an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, 2006
  Top chef Frank Byrne has one ambition in life - to win the coveted third Michelin star for his restaurant, which will bring him the success he craves and confirm his reputation as the best. But reaching the top comes at a price...
  Set in the turbulent world of celebrity chefs, Food explores the compulsive nature of perfectionism and the sacrifices we make to realise our dreams.
  'as fast and furious as a knife at chopping-board, and fizzes with physical invention' Telegraph
  'full of wit, and pokes delicious fun at foodie culture... It broadens its scope way beyond an everyday story of celebrity chefs into a thoughtful consideration of the pitfalls and pratfalls of perfectionism' Guardian
  'brilliantly ingenious... takes the breath away' Scotsman

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  Indian Classic Tales Vol 2 -...

  Innofinitimo Media

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  Indian Classic Tales Volume 2 audiobook contains the following six short stories:The birds and the shivering monkeysThe old tiger and the Greedy TravelerThe Rabbits and the ElephantsChand the ChickSheesham of NagpurThe Selfish Weaver 
  We’re sure you’ll enjoy this book. Please listen to this brief sample of one of the stories to help you decide whether the audiobook is for you. Listening to audio story books helps develop creativity and imagination in kids. It is better than indulge in TV or video games. This resource is suitable for the entire family, including kids of all ages, including teens. All of our titles are available in major online book stores and libraries. Don’t wait any longer. Get the full audiobook now!

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