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  This Is What You Mean To Me:...

  Seán Hewitt

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  This Is
  
  What You Mean To Me: Poetry Ireland Introductions 2021 is an anthology of
  
  poetry from Poetry Ireland, the national poetry organisation. This anthology
  
  features the very best of Ireland's emerging poets for 2021, as chosen by
  
  Seán Hewitt, award-winning poet, reviewer, and author of the upcoming memoir,
  
  All Down Darkness Wide. Along with a pair of superb poems, each poet provides
  
  an insightful prose piece on poetry, on life, on the overlap between poetry
  
  and life. Featuring William Keohane, Molly Twomey, Simon Costello, Jamie
  
  Field, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, Eoin McEvoy, Laura McKenna, Sacha White,
  
  Siobhán Ní Dhomhnaill, and Sonya Gildea, along with author photos, plus a
  
  superb cover image from artist Colin Martin. Quality poems and quality prose
  
  from Poetry Ireland: connecting poetry and people.

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  The Compendium of Erotica -...

  Harry E. Wedeck

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  Explore what sent hearts a flutter through the centuries in this compilation of erotic cultural and literary history.Dictionary of Erotic LiteratureRepresenting cultures around the world and spanning from ancient times to the twentieth century, this A-to-Z guide explores one of the most universal and enduring themes in literature. Entries range from Ovid’s Ars amatoria, second-century Gnosticism, and ninth-century Arabian poets, all the way up to the explicit novels published in Paris in the 1960s.As author Harry E. Wedeck explains in his introduction, a culture’s artistic and literary depictions of eroticism reveal a great deal about their way of life. In Dictionary of Erotic Literature, Wedeck draws on this endlessly vast topic to present an illustrative sampling of authors, written works, and terminology that will be of value to any student of literature or cultural history.Dictionary of AphrodisiacsFrom absinthe, almond soup, and Albertus Magnus to yarrow, yohimbine, and Émile Zola,this authoritative reference volume covers knowledge of aphrodisiacs spanning centuries and drawn from literature, spirituality, and ancient science. Entries include edible substances believed to enhance sexual performance, gemstones thought to possess amorous charms, gods and goddesses of love from various myths, and historic figures who contributed to studies and thought on aphrodisiacs.This dictionary reveals many intriguing ways for partners to enrich their relationships, including recipes to stimulate the gourmet lover using the many ingredients described in the book.Love Potions Through the AgesThis survey explores the evolution of love potion practices in societies over the centuries and across the world. Separate chapters focus on ancient Greece, Rome, India, and the Orient, as well as the Middle Ages and modern times. Wedeck relays the spiritual aspects of these concoctions as well as historical anecdotes about them. Recipes are also included, though Wedeck cautions that they are exclusively for academic purposes and not intended for personal use.

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  He Watched - Mekenze Walden

  Author Mekenze Walden,...

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  In the shadowed realm where life and death intertwine, an objective crow perches upon the precipice of existence. Its wings bear the weight of countless souls—both animal and human—whose final breaths echo through the void. 
  He Watched chronicles the crow’s solemn duty: to witness the unraveling of mortal threads. From the gnarled roots of ancient forests to the blood-soaked cobblestones of forgotten alleys, it observes without judgment. The grotesque and the sublime converge in a macabre ballet, each demise etched into the crow’s unyielding gaze. 
  But as the seasons turn and the moon waxes, a twist of fate awaits. The crow, once a silent observer, becomes ensnared in a web of treachery. Captured by unseen hands, it faces its own mortality—a revelation that transcends mere poetry. The boundaries blur, and the crow’s wings ache for flight beyond the ink-stained pages. 
  He Watched is a haunting tapestry woven from verses and prose, where the boundary between life and death dissolves. Prepare to be startled, unsettled, and transformed as you journey alongside the crow—a witness turned protagonist—in this enigmatic tale. 
  The crow’s secrets lie hidden within these verses. Will you dare to decipher them?

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  Raging: Outrage - The Civil War

  Deirdre Kinahan

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  Part of Deirdre Kinahan's trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland, Outrage explores the true nature of women's roles in the Irish revolutionary wars, and in particular the Civil War in 1922.
  Alice and Nell are sisters who play key roles in organising civic resistance and the propaganda war. They are fervent, they are funny, they are human and they – like everyone else in Ireland – become deeply conflicted as the country spins toward a shattering Civil War that splits the nation, and continues to haunt Irish politics, society and culture to this day.
  Outrage was first staged as a touring production by Fishamble: The New Play Company, in partnership with Dublin Port Company and Meath County Council, in 2022.
  Deirdre Kinahan's Raging trilogy tells powerful stories drawing on a tumultuous period of conflict in Irish history, from the 1916 Easter Rising to the Civil War which began in 1922. Each of the three plays – Wild Sky, Embargo and Outrage – was first performed a century after the event which it depicts, and they were commissioned and performed by companies including Fishamble: The New Play Company, Meath County Council Arts Office, Dublin Port Company and Iarnród Éireann.
  Together, they challenge the historical narrative, mixing true-life testimonies with powerful drama to create a theatrical hurricane of empathy, action and truth.

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  Happy Meal

  Tabby Lamb

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  'Maybe gender is like life? And like time too? In that it doesn't actually exist, and yet our world revolves around the expectations we put on it.'
  Starting in the quaint days of dial-up and MSN, Happy Meal is a funny, moving and nostalgic story of transition, following two initial strangers on their journeys from teen to adult; from MySpace to TikTok; from cis to trans...
  Tabby Lamb's joyful trans rom-com was directed by Jamie Fletcher and produced by Roots and Theatre Royal Plymouth, with ETT and Oxford Playhouse, on a UK tour in 2022, including a run at the Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Fringe First Award.

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  Top 10 Poets The - The English...

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
   
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
   
  In this volume we explore the works of the English Woman.  In their times many were neglected and ignored.  Society was male dominated and women were definitely second class.  Even a title didn’t bring equality, just a little more respect.  But now we can hear their words for the wonder that they are.  They speak on all manner of things with words that are knowing, inspiring and truthful.  Genius in every name. 
  1 - The Top 10 Poets - English Women - An Introduction 
  2 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  3 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  4 - A Man's Requirements by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  5 - A Thought for a Lonely Death Bed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  6 - A Curse For A Nation by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  7 - Dead Before Death by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  8 - Remember by Christina Rossetti 
  9 - Goodbye In Fear Goodbye In Sorrow by Christina Rossetti 
  10 - Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti 
  11 - Sonnets Are Full of Love by Christina Rossetti 
  12 - Death, That Struck When I Was Most Confiding by Emily Bronte 
  13 - I Am the Only Being Whose Doom by Emily Bronte 
  14 - If Grief For Grief Can Touch These by Emily Bronte 
  15 - Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun by Emily Bronte 
  16 - Last Lines by Emily Bronte 
  17 - Love in Fantastique Triumph Satt by Aphra Behn 
  18 - The Counsel by Aphra Behn 
  19 - The Disappointment by Aphra Behn 
  20 - The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn 
  21 - On a Juniper Tree, Cut Down to Make Busks by Aphra Behn 
  22 - The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew 
  23 - Madeline in Church by Charlotte Mew 
  24 - In Nunhead Cemetery by Charlotte Mew 
  25 - The Voice by Charlotte Mew 
  26 - My Heart is Lame by Charlotte Mew 
  27 - Love and Folly by Charlotte Smith 
  28 - Sonnet XLIV - Press'd By The Moon by Charlotte Smith 
  29 - Sonnet XI - To Sleep by Charlotte Smith 
  30 - Sonnet LXX - On Being Cautioned..... by Charlotte Smith 
  31 - Beachey Head by Charlotte Smith 
  32 - A Cross Road Epitaph by Amy Levy 
  33 - London Poets by Amy Levy 
  34 - A March Day in London by Amy Levy 
  35 - At a Dinner Party by Amy Levy 
  36 - A Prayer by Amy Levy 
  37 - Count That Day Lost by George Eliot 
  38 - Day Is Dying by George Eliot 
  39 - In a London Drawingroom by George Eliot 
  40 - Sweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George Eliot 
  41 - Two Lovers by George Eliot 
  42 - Ardour by Radclyffe Hall 
  43 - A Twilight Fancy by Radclyffe Hall 
  44 - The Blind Ploughman by Radclyffe Hall 
  45 - The Two Angels by Radclyffe Hall 
  46 - Ode to Sappho by Radclyffe Hall 
  47 - The Improvisatrice - Sappho's Song by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  48 - Scenes In London IV - The City Churchyard by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  49 - Secrets by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  50 - Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  51 - Long Years Have Past Since Last I Stood by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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