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  Short Poetry Collection 140

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of 32 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2015.

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  Queers: Eight Monologues (NHB...

  Mark Gatiss

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  A young soldier returning from the trenches of the First World War recollects a love that dares not speak its name. Almost one hundred years later, a groom-to-be prepares for his gay wedding.
  Queers celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and political milestones in British gay history, as seen through the eyes of eight individuals.
  Poignant and personal, funny, tragic and riotous, these eight monologues for male and female performers cover major events - such as the Wolfenden Report of 1957, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the debate over the age of consent - through deeply affecting and personal rites-of-passage stories.
  Curated by Mark Gatiss, the monologues were commissioned to mark the anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalised homosexual acts in private between two men over the age of twenty-one. They were broadcast on BBC Four in 2017, directed and produced by Gatiss, and starring Alan Cumming, Rebecca Front, Ian Gelder, Kadiff Kirwan, Russell Tovey, Gemma Whelan, Ben Whishaw and Fionn Whitehead. They were staged at The Old Vic in London.
  This volume includes:
  The Man on the Platform by Mark Gatiss
  The Perfect Gentleman by Jackie Clune
  Safest Spot in Town by Keith Jarrett
  Missing Alice by Jon Bradfield
  I Miss the War by Matthew Baldwin
  More Anger by Brian Fillis
  A Grand Day Out by Michael Dennis
  Something Borrowed by Gareth McLean

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  Holy Sonnets (version 2)

  John Donne

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  The Holy Sonnets—also known as the Divine Meditations or Divine Sonnets—are a series of nineteen poems by the English poet John Donne (1572–1631). The sonnets were first published in 1633—two years after Donne's death.  Summary from Wikipedia.

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  The Thrill of Love (NHB Modern...

  Amanda Whittington

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  A gripping drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
  A divorcee with a young child to care for, Ruth works in the kind of nightclubs where there's more than just a drink on offer. The girls work hard, play hard and dream of a movie-star life. Then she meets the wealthy, womanising David, a racing driver with whom she becomes obsessed. Fame comes - but not in the way she imagines.
  Why does their relationship end in murder? Why does she plead not guilty but offer no defence? Why does she show no remorse? And who is she trying to protect?
  The Thrill of Love dramatises the true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, and takes a fresh look at the woman behind the headlines.
  'Terrific' - Guardian
  'Absorbing... the writing is playful and pin-sharp' - Telegraph
  'Tense and engaging throughout... a triumph' - The Stage

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  A Landscape Blossoms Within Me

  Eeva Kilpi

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  These poems evade labelling. Under a simple surface, Kilpi's poems display a multi-voiced modernism, ranging from bawdy humour, sexual comedy, daily irritations, and the absurdities of old age, as well as delicate expressions of love and loss.
  The carnival of voices extends from poem to poem, and reading them becomes more like listening to jazz, where what matters is the way the instrumentalist takes up and varies the riffs to hand.
  In her own words she is 'sometimes a verb, sometimes a noun' and sometimes goes off to 'scare the birds in the fields'. Kilpi is indeed a shape-shifter, and reading her poems thus becomes a voyage into different ways of being.

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  Parlour Song (NHB Modern Plays)

  Jez Butterworth

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  A blackly hilarious exploration of deceit, paranoia and murderous desire, as the spirit of the Blues lands in leafy suburbia.
  Demolition expert Ned lives in a nice new house on a nice new estate on the edge of the English countryside. He loves his job. Barbecues. Car-boot sales. Fitness programmes. Outwardly his life is entirely unremarkable. Not unlike his friend and neighbour Dale.
  So why has he not slept a wink in six months? Why is he so terrified of his attractive wife Joy? And why is it every time he leaves on business, something else goes missing from his home?
  Parlour Song was first performed by the Atlantic Theater Company, New York in February 2008, before receiving its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London in 2009.
  'blissfully funny... combines the comic, the erotic and the downright disconcerting with superb panache' Telegraph
  'exactly captures the mundane madness beneath the bland routine of affluence' Guardian
  'wickedly funny' Financial Times

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