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  Realms of Gold

  JOHN KEATS

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  The letters of Keats between 1816 and 1821 are passionate, revealing and sensitive. Furthermore, it was within the context of these letters that many of the poems first appeared. Perry Keenlyside has selected some of the most revealing of the letters to show the state of mind and attitudes of the poet while he was writing that made him one of the most loved poets in the English language.

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  Airsick (NHB Modern Plays)

  Emma Frost

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  A turbulent black comedy about love, loneliness and how we shape our future.
  Lucy thinks she's finally cracked the love thing. Joe, her handsome American boyfriend, is moving to London. So how come he seems to be heading for the emergency exit? Lucy's best friend Scarlet is on an endless carousel of losers, users and married men. Her dad just thinks we're all better off flying solo.
  But when a mysterious New Zealander arrives in their midst and starts showing an unhealthy interest in Lucy, it seems that everyone's baggage is finally coming out on display...
  'wincingly funny' - Independent
  'extremely assured' - Independent on Sunday
  'astonishingly candid... makes you hope for a recurring Frost' - Guardian

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  Poems about Paintings

  James Sey

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  This chapbook of poetry and prose pieces reflects philosophically and aesthetically on the relationships between art and the world, including through the global experience of Covid-related lockdowns. Though generally following an extended haiku-like format, some are longer prose poems, and an extended verse poem reflects on the city where the author lives, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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  Chatroom (NHB Modern Plays)

  Enda Walsh

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  A chilling, blackly comic tale of manipulation, cyberbullying and adolescent insecurity.
  In a quiet corner of the internet, a group of bored, restless teenagers spends its time deconstructing children's literature and the messages in modern pop music. But when a new member joins to share his depression and thoughts of suicide, the conversation takes a darker turn.
  A powerful depiction of modern-day isolation and the dangerous power of technology, Chatroom formed part of the National Theatre's 2005 Connections season, where it starred Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.
  'A vivid picture of teenage angst and insecurity' Guardian
  'Powerful and disturbing' The Stage
  'Keenly believeable... enthralling' Financial Times

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  Tribes (NHB Modern Plays)

  Nina Raine

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  A penetrating play about belonging, family and the limitations of communication. Winner of Best New Play, at the Off-West End Theatre Awards.
  Billy's family, like every other, is a club, with its own private language, jokes and rules. You can be as rude as you like, as possessive as you like, as critical as you like. Arguments are an expression of love, and after all, you love each other more than anyone in the world. Don't you?
  But Billy, who is deaf, is the only one who actually listens. When he meets Sylvia, he decides he finally wants to be heard.
  'At once funny and piercingly painful... Raine writes with a marvellous mixture of wit and empathy... as moving as anything I have seen in the theatre this year' Telegraph
  'fiercely intelligent, caustically funny and emotionally wrenching' Independent
  'razor-sharp as well as utterly credible' Evening Standard

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  Half-light - Collected Poems...

  Frank Bidart

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  The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voicesGathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His audio represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it’s that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poet’s own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites, the monsters, the misfits, the misunderstood among us and inside us. Few writers have so willingly ventured to the dark places of the human psyche and allowed themselves to be stripped bare with such candor and vulnerability. Over the past half century, Bidart has done nothing less than invent a poetics commensurate with the chaos and appetites of our experience.Half-light encompasses all of Bidart’s previous books, and also includes a new collection, Thirst, in which the poet austerely surveys his life, laying it plain for us before venturing into something new and unknown. Here Bidart finds himself a “Creature coterminous with thirst”, still longing, still searching in himself, one of the “queers of the universe”.Visionary and revelatory, intimate and unguarded, Bidart’s Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2017 is a radical confrontation with human nature, a conflict eternally renewed and reframed, restless line by restless line.

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