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  Gigi & Dar

  Josh Azouz

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  'Private Gigi. One Direction awaits your commands.'
  A roadblock. Two young women armed with machine guns and Nutella. Days away from finishing the army.
  Gigi has a secret. Dar dreamt she'd be shot today. And there's a strange vehicle heading their way… Well, that's okay. Nothing ever happens here. Right?
  A comic tragedy about what we bury in order to survive, Josh Azouz's play Gigi & Dar was first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Kathryn Hunter.

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  From Shade to Shine - New Poems

  Jill Peláez Baumgaertner

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  This collection of poems begins in the growing darkness of November, stretches through Advent and the seasons leading to Easter and to Pentecost, and ends in the budding light of the Scottish Orkney Islands, where the canonical hours measure time over centuries and where God broods over an austere and beautiful landscape. The measurement of time passing and returning, year after year, in the rhythms of the seasons and of the liturgical year, create the pace and the song. But in the biblical voices of Magdalene, Mary, Abel, and Eve, and in the grim historical and political realities of war and suffering, one also hears lament and finds the poet' s clear-eyed gaze straight into life' s challenges. Memory is at work here, too, in personal reminiscences and in theological reflection. As one philosopher has said, " All truth is God' s truth."
  
  
  From Shade to Shine is published under Paraclete Press's Iron Pen imprint. In the book of Job, a suffering man pours out his anguish to his Maker. From the depths of his pain, he reveals a trust in God's goodness that is stronger than his despair, giving humanity some of the most beautiful and poetic verses of all time. Paraclete's Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.

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  My Baby First Birthday

  Jenny Zhang

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  Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. It's about existence and nonexistence, about being born—without consent. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts. She questions the way we feminize and racialize nurturing, and live in service of other people's dreams. Her poems explore the obscenity of patriarchy, whiteness, and capitalism, the violence of rescue and heroism. 
   
   
   
  The magic trick in this book is that despite all these themes, the book never feels like some jeremiad. Zhang uses friendship as a lyric. She seeks tenderness, radiant beauty, and having love for your mistakes. Through all this, she writes about being alone—really alone, like why-was-I-ever-born alone—and trying, despite everything, to reach out and touch something—skin to skin, animal to animal.

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - Sunset - 12...

  HP Lovecraft, Dante Gabriel...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  01 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Sunset - An Introduction 
  02 - At Sunset Time by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  03 - Sunset in the City by Richard Le Gallienne 
  04 - After Sunset by William Allingham 
  05 - Sunset by H P Lovecraft 
  06 - From Sunset to Star Rise by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  07 - Sunset by Israel Zangwill 
  08 - Winter Sunset by Katharine Tynan 
  09 - Sunset by Ann Radcliffe 
  10 - How The Old Mountains Drip With Sunset by Emily Dickinson 
  11 - Sunset Wings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  12 - An Autumn Sunset by Edith Wharton 
  13 - The Red Sunsets by Mathilde Blind

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Stephen Crane, Edna St Vincent...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  1 - 01 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Geographical Features - An Introduction 
  2 - On the Desert by Stephen Crane 
  3 - Mist In The Valley by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  4 - The Lake Isle of Inisfree by William Butler Yeats 
  5 - The River and Its Waves Are One by Kabir 
  6 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield 
  7 - In the Forest by Sarojini Naidu 
  8 - Woods in Winter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  9 - The Waterfall by Henry Vaughan 
  10 - Aurora Borealis by Herman Melville 
  11 - The Cloud on the Mountain by Alama Iqbal 
  12 - Alone Looking at the Mountain by Li Po 
  13 - How the Old Mountains Drip with Sunset by Emily Dickinson

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  Personal Values

  Chloë Lawrence-Taylor

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  'You clung on to everything. Her things.'
  Veda and Bea haven't spoken since their dad's funeral; not since Bea scratched something obscene into the bonnet of Veda's cherished convertible. But one wet Tuesday morning, Veda shows up out of the blue on Bea's doorstep, determined to break down the walls built by so many things left unsaid.
  But before they can do that, there's the small matter of the physical walls Bea has surrounded herself with – walls made of newspapers, suitcases, cutlery, commodes, keyboards and hundreds, likely thousands, of bags-for-life...
  Chloë Lawrence-Taylor's play Personal Values is a perceptive, poignant and witty look at sisterhood and grief. It was first performed at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Lucy Morrison.

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