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  Fifty Cents

  Billy Mortimer

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Fifty Cents by Billy Mortimer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 21, 2011.Originally published in 1881 as a song, with music by Dan Lewis. (Summary by TriciaG)

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  The Poetry of W B Yeats

  WB Yeats

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  William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland on 13th June 1865. 
   
  His early years moved between Ireland and England. By his mid-teens he was writing but those works were described as ‘entirely Un-Irish’.  With Ernest Rhys he founded the Rhymers Club. Based at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street it’s best described as a drinking club for performing poets.  Yeats later cited them as ‘The Tragic Generation’.  By now Yeats was writing and publishing poetry and stories that were profoundly based in Irish folklore.   
   
  Yeats is perhaps best described as Ireland’s national poet in addition to being one of the major twentieth-century literary figures of the English tongue. He represents the ‘Romantic poet of modernism,’ with an extraordinary style created from the outward emphasis on the expression of emotions and the extensive use of symbolism, imagery and allusions.  
   
  In 1923 his fame was brought to an even wider audience when he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.  
   
  His personal life was driven by his many relationships in love and by his great interest in oriental mysticism and occultism.  Yeats also wrote prose and drama and, as an ardent Nationalist, established himself as a spokesman of the Irish cause and served as an Irish senator for two terms.  
   
  W B Yeats died at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France, on 28th January 1939.  He was 73. 
   
  In modern times his contribution to literary modernism and to Irish nationalism remains incontestable.  His sumptuous poetry elegantly envelopes the reader in a world very few can articulate but all know well.  A legacy for everyone 
  1 - The Poetry of W B Yeats - An Introduction 
  2 - A Man Young and Old - I - First Love by W B Yeats 
  3 - A Man Young and Old - II - Human Dignity by W B Yeats 
  4 - A Man Young and Old - III - The Mermaid by W B Yeats 
  5 - A Man Young and Old - IV - The Death of the Hare by W B Yeats 
  6 - A Man Young and Old - V - The Empty Cup by W B Yeats 
  7 - A Man Young and Old - VI - His Memories 
  8 - A Man Young and Old - VII - The Friends of His Youth 
  9 - A Man Young and Old - VIII - Summer and Spring 
  10 - A Man Young and Old - IX - The Secrets of the Old 
  11 - A Man Young and Old - X - His Wildness 
  12 - A Man Young and Old - XI - From 'Oedipus at Colonus' 
  13 - A Cradle Song by W B Yeats 
  14 - A Prayer for My Daughter by W B Yeats 
  15 - The Mother of God by W B Yeats 
  16 - Among School Children by W B Yeats 
  17 - The Stolen Child by W B Yeats 
  18 - Long-Legged Fly by W B Yeats 
  19 - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers by W B Yeats 
  20 - The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W B Yeats 
  21 - The Wild Swans at Coole by W B Yeats 
  22 - Leda and the Swan by W B Yeats 
  23 - The Cat and the Moon by W B Yeats 
  24 - Those Dancing Days Are Gone by W B Yeats 
  25 - Imitated From The Japanese by W B Yeats 
  26 - All Things Can Tempt Me by W B Yeats 
  27 - A Statesman's Holiday by W B Yeats 
  28 - The Fascination of What's Difficult by W B Yeats 
  29 - A Drinking Song by W B Yeats 
  30 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats 
  31 - He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace by W B Yeats 
  32 - The Song of Wandering Aengus by W B Yeats 
  33 - The Travail of Passion by W B Yeats 
  34 - The Falling of Leaves by W B Yeats 
  35 - He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved by W B Yeats 
  36 - Down by the Salley Gardens by W B Yeats 
  37 - Quarrel in Old Age by W B Yeats 
  38 - The Secret Rose by W B Yeats 
  39 - Under Saturn by W B Yeats 
  40 - To Ireland In The Coming Times by W B Yeats 
  41 - I Am of Ireland by W B Yeats 
  42 - The Second Coming by William Bu

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  Jack Thorne Plays: Two (NHB...

  Jack Thorne

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  After the breakout success of his early work for stage and screen, Jack Thorne turned for inspiration to his own family for a series of plays about hope, idealism, and domestic politics. The work in this collection – five full-length plays and two shorts – showcases his extraordinary ability to combine electrifying dialogue with heartfelt warmth, candour, and humour.
  Hope (Royal Court Theatre, 2014) is a funny and scathing fable about the leaders of a local council faced with savage funding cuts. 'A surprisingly entertaining state-of-the-nation drama' - The Stage
  The Solid Life of Sugar Water (Graeae/Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2015) is an intimate, tender play about loss, hurt, and rediscovery. 'Startlingly good… an adult play in the very best sense' - The Times
  Junkyard (Headlong, 2017) is a joyful celebration of imaginative play, a musical drama about a group of young people tasked with building a playground out of junk. 'Genuinely funny and poignant' - WhatsOnStage
  the end of history… (Royal Court, 2019) is a moving and sophisticated portrait of the impact of political idealism on a family. 'Clever and highly intriguing' - Independent
  Also included are Burying Your Brother in the Pavement, written for the National Theatre Connections Festival in 2008, which tackles complex themes of grief, violence, and sexuality with fierce compassion and wild imagination; and two short plays: Whiff Whaff and Boo.
  'I think these plays are about love, about heroes, about trying to understand how to be heroic, about trying to understand how to lead a good life' - Jack Thorne, from his Introduction
  'Jack Thorne is Britain's hottest playwright and screenwriter' - The Times
  'Jack Thorne never ceases to stimulate and entertain' - Evening Standard
  'Thorne is a writer of immense emotional intelligence and his dialogue regularly devastates' - The Stage

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  Short Poetry Collection 056

  Various Various

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  LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 056: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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  Short Poetry Collection 011

  Various Various

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  Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 011: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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  John Keats: Poems

  John Keats

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  This well-edited recording contains Keats's most famous works.“Douglas Dodge modulates his voice beautifully to capture the slightly varied emotions of many poems. This well-edited recording contains Keats's most famous works: 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci,' 'The Eve of St. Agnes,' 'Ode to a Nightingale,' 'On a Grecian Urn,' along with many lesser-known short poems such as 'To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat' that exhibit the poet's more fanciful side.”—Library Journal

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