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  A Midsummer Night's Dream

  William Shakespeare

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  "The course of true love never did run smooth."
  
  Step into a moonlit forest where the lines between reality and illusion blur. William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a dazzling celebration of love, magic, and the hilarious unpredictability of the human heart. When four young lovers flee the rigid laws of Athens for an enchanted wood, they unwittingly stumble into a civil war between the King and Queen of the Fairies.
  
  With the mischievous Puck pulling the strings and a magical flower juice causing havoc, the lovers find themselves in a tangled web of mistaken identities and sudden passions. Meanwhile, a group of bumbling amateur actors, led by the unforgettable Nick Bottom, prepares a play for the Duke's wedding—only to have Bottom transformed into a donkey by the playful sprites.
  
  This definitive edition captures the lyrical beauty and slapstick humor that has made this play a favorite for over four centuries. From the ethereal beauty of the fairy kingdom to the high-stakes drama of the Athenian court, A Midsummer Night's Dream remains the ultimate exploration of the madness of love.
  
  Lose yourself in the magic. Buy "A Midsummer Night's Dream" today and experience the world's greatest comedy.

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  Poetry Book Society Spring 2022...

  Alice Kate Mullen

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  the poetry book society was founded by t.s. eliot to share the joy of poetry. it's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems from all the selected poets, alongside exclusive interviews, insightful reviews by the ledbury critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter.
  you can find out more and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk.

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  There is (still) love here

  Dean Atta

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  There is (still) love here, the compelling new collection of poetry by Dean Atta, is a personal and powerful exploration of relationships, love and loss, encompassing LGBTQ+ and Black history, Greek Cypriot heritage, pride and identity, dislocation and belonging.
  Atta's tender, precisely-crafted and generous poems seek consolation and affirmation. These are poems as an antidote for challenging times, whether facing prejudice or the challenges of the pandemic, experiencing grief or recovering from heartbreak. Here, we encounter blue feelings and homesickness, things lost in translation and the pressures of the many roles we play in life. We also find the recipes of home, gifts and giving, the togetherness of community and connection to help us to heal. There is still love here - and journeys towards forgiveness, acceptance, queer joy and the power to unapologetically be yourself and fully embrace who you are.

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  The Father and the Assassin

  Anupama Chandrasekhar

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  'Our wars may come in many forms. On the battlefields. Within ourselves.'
  Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, champion of non-violence, beloved leader. Nathuram Godse: journalist, nationalist – and the man who murdered him.
  Anupama Chandrasekhar's play The Father and the Assassin traces Godse's life over thirty years during India's fight for independence: from a devout follower of Gandhi, through to his radicalisation and their tragic final encounter in Delhi in 1948.
  An essential exploration of oppression and extremism, this gripping play opened to critical acclaim at the National Theatre, London, in May 2022, directed by Indhu Rubasingham – and was revived there the following year. It was a finalist for the 2022-23 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

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  The Timeless Love of Billy B for...

  David Moore

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  Balthazar dreams of the perfect woman, one he can summon or dismiss at will on his computer screen. But as time passes, he becomes ensnared in his own creation, consumed by an obsession with this non-existent figure. As Balthazar spirals downward, losing everything from his identity to the use of his body, reduced to just his mind and the fingers tapping at the keyboard, she, in contrast, rises. She transforms into a modern-day 
  Scheherazade, learning to command her prince.
   
  Baltha B was unaware,No more sits he upon the chair.The relics of his body’s ruin,Are the one last bastionOf his undoing.Death beckons when the hands they clap,To say, ‘Enough! Your time is up’

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  The Poetry of Samuel Taylor...

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21st, 1772 in Ottery St Mary in Devon. 
  As a child he was an early and devoted reader and, after being schooled at Christ's Hospital, a charity school, he attended, from 1791, Jesus College, Cambridge and the following year won the Browne Gold Medal for an ode on the slave trade. 
  He was great friends with the poet Robert Southey, indeed they formed a plan, soon abandoned, in 1795, to found a utopian commune-like society, called Pantisocracy, in the wilds of Pennsylvania. But the same year the two friends married sisters Sarah and Edith Fricker and, of course, went on to be part of the Lake Poets movement along with Wordsworth. 
  In 1798, Coleridge and Wordsworth published a joint volume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads, which proved to be the starting point for the English romantic age. 
  In the autumn he and Wordsworth left for a stay in Germany; Coleridge soon went his own way immersing himself in both German philosophy and the language, which later proved invaluable for his translations. 
  In 1800, he returned to England and settled with his family at Keswick in the Lake District, near to where Wordsworth had moved. Soon, however, he was beset by marital problems, illnesses, a growing opium dependency, tensions with Wordsworth, and a lack of confidence in his poetic powers, all of which fuelled the composition of Dejection: An Ode and an intensification of his philosophical studies. He abandoned his family to Southey's care and departed on new travels. 
  Between 1810 and 1820, this "giant among dwarfs", as he was often considered, gave a series of lectures in London and Bristol. Much of Coleridge's reputation as a literary critic is founded on the lectures from the winter of 1810–11 a series on Shakespeare and Milton. Although he rarely prepared anything other than loose notes and was inclined to digress, these lectures were a huge literary event and success. 
  By this time Coleridge was dependent on opium and by 1817 his solution was to live in Highgate under the watchful eye of physician James Gillman where his dependency was somewhat controlled and his output of work could continue.  These included his 23 volume Biographia Literaria, Sibylline Leaves (1817), Aids to Reflection (1825), and Church and State (1826). 
  He died in Highgate, London on 25 July 1834 as a result of heart failure and a lung disorder together with the long term effects of opium. 
  This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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