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  Elegy for Angharad - From their...

  Dafydd ap Gwilym

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  Dafydd ap Gwilym may be an unfamiliar name to many but is one of the leading Welsh poets as well as among the most celebrated poets of Europe in the Middle Ages.

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  So That You Know - Poems

  Mani Rao

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  ""Often enigmatic, always exquisitely shaped"" 
  --Ranjit Hoskote 
  ""Mani Rao is the least metaphysical of our poets or to put it another way, the most material."" 
  --Irwin Allen Sealy 
  ""I love the gentle whip-crack of both line and image in Rao's poems."" 
  --Kazim Ali 
   
  'Here I am, weightless / 
  now take me home' 
  So That You Know is the quintessential Mani Rao collection. These are poems that hold the playful exuberance of youth and the dazzling insight of age; that are at times measured, at times extravagant. What unites them is their commitment to mining deep into the recesses of the heart and offering moments of ecstatic revelation. 'Every morning you would breathe me fly,' says the poet, and one can feel the words take wing. 
  Mani Rao's work has, over the years, acquired a reputation for battering against the doors of poetic convention, experimenting with form and language, and untethering images so they run fast and thick. Part visual, part text, So That You Know stands testimony to the mischief and anarchy of her poetry. 
  If Mani Rao's language has been described as 'molten lava', here is the book that reminds you why. Each stanza-searing, incandescent, unstoppable.

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  The Party Girls

  Amy Rosenthal

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  'I've started to wonder, what if it isn't my sisters at all. It's me... Some wicked, hateful part of me that thinks some human beings are superior to others, thinks I'm superior.'
  The glamorous Mitford sisters once cut a swathe through pre-war high society. But as fascism rises and political storm clouds gather, the bonds of sisterhood are threatened by new and treacherous desires.
  Nancy aspires to be a celebrated novelist, Diana and Unity fall for the dangerous, charismatic leaders of the far right in Britain and Germany, and Debo sets her cap at a Duke. Meanwhile, Decca crosses continents in her own passionate pursuit of love – but can she ever escape her sisters and her past?
  Compelling, touching and witty, Amy Rosenthal's play The Party Girls explores the true story of a family riven by political extremism, and asks what it takes to stay true to your beliefs. It premiered in 2025 at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, before touring nationally.

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  Lifers

  Evan Placey

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  'A system is people. These walls and bars didn't build themselves.'
  Inside the walls of HMP Drummond, long-term prisoners Baxter, Norton and Lenny pass the time with poker, banter and the kind of gallows humour only lifers can muster.
  When Lenny's body starts to give out, young prison officer Mark keeps an eye on him. What begins as a duty of care becomes an unexpected friendship, exposing the cracks in a system built to punish, not to support.
  Darkly funny and unflinchingly honest, Evan Placey's play Lifers challenges what we think we know about crime, punishment and redemption. Do some crimes make a second chance impossible? And when the world moves on without you, what does justice really mean? Produced by Synergy Theatre Project, it premiered at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2025, directed by Synergy's Artistic Director Esther Baker.

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  Crush - 20th Anniversary Edition

  Richard Siken, Introduction by...

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  The twentieth-anniversary edition of the influential first poetry collection by Richard Siken Since winning the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, Crush has become a modern classic. This twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new introduction by award-winning poet Dana Levin and a new afterword by the author.

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  The Soul We Share

  Ricky Ray

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  Winner of the 2023 Aryamati Collection Competition.
  Through visceral and vulnerable poetry, Ricky Ray meditates on the pain and gratitude that arise from a keenly felt awareness of our fleeting existence. Recognizing his humanity as a facet of natural processes, Ricky measures the ache of living in a disabled body against the joy of \'being lived\' by the places he inhabits. As we accompany him and his soul dog, Addie, through the scenic woodlands of New England, the concrete jungle of Manhattan, and the swamps of the Deep South, the lines between humans, animals and nature begin to blur and move in concert. Shifting between forms both physical and elemental, we read of an existence lived not 'upon / but as one' with the Earth, \'whose being we are throughout and beyond our brief sojourn as human\'. At the heart of this collection is the transformative experience of Ricky's life with an old brown dog, which teaches that soul isn't merely something we possess—it's an animacy deeply shared.

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