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  Icarus and Aria

  Kirk Wood Bromley

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  In early 2019, when playwright Kirk Wood Bromley was diagnosed with cancer, his fans and collaborators came together to fund and record three of his plays, one of which was Icarus and Aria, an "upgraded Romeo and Juliet" that was originally performed under the dramatory of Aaron Beall at the first NY International Fringe Festival in 1997. This full cast performance was directed by Joshua Spafford and recorded by Kevin Blackler. 
  By riffing off its source, Icarus and Aria is thrillingly situated in the present. Icarus Alzaro is a rookie football star just signed to a high profile contract with the Arizona Aztechs. Jimmy Jones, the Aztechs owner, has a daughter named Aria. The two meet at a party to celebrate Icarus's joining the team, fall in love, and run away to the Superstition Mountains. By morning, their disappearance is a media storm. The two young lovers are eventually brought down by the inexorable forces that surround them. The play includes a cast of characters ranging from Dina, Aria's smart-mouthed best friend, and Primalo, Icarus's brother and head of El Imaginero, a crime ring linked to drug-dealing and a spate of murders, to the Channel One News Team, Aria's spunky stepmom Cindy, her trigger-happy brother Jimmy Junior, Medicine Woman, officers Barcaiolo and Junkfood, and more. Full cast info is at inversetheater.org 
  The world's foremost living verse playwright, Bromley has been compared to Shakespeare and Stoppard, is a member of New Dramatists, and was declared "the verse play champion" by Michael Feingold (Village Voice) in 2005. Bromley and Inverse have won numerous awards, including Best Downtown Theater Company (NY Press 2001), The Berrilla Kerr Foundation Playwriting Award (2001), Best Music/Lyrics (NY Int’l Fringe Festival 2002), Excellence in Playwriting (NY Int’l Fringe Festival 2003), the first Caffe Cino Award (NY Innovative Theater Awards 2005), and Outstanding Solo Show (NY Int’l Fringe Festival 2009). 

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  Reflections

  Mallory Rowse

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  Lift yourself into a new realm of lateral make-believe world. 
  Indulge in artistic poetry that will lift you. 
  Become disassociated from the matter of fact daily life that confronts us all today. 
  Creativity is the mark of poetry as it sings our senses in appreciation and realises another perspective to what surrounds us. Another poem, another realm of understanding. 
  An ideal book to have at your side, whether at home, relaxing on the beach, or on holiday lazing in any of the seasons of the year! Awake to an alternative mode of leisure of novel reading. Absorb and drift away with wordsmith that beckons you into a floating paradise of your very own. 
  Poetry affords one to a taste of strength of suggestion that whets the palate very differently to the manner in which a fictional or non-fictional novel cannot achieve. Enjoy your journey through this book as your reading material companion. 
  Which one will you choose as your favourite?

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  Disorderly Magic and Other...

  Richard Cabut

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  Disorderly Magic and Other Disturbances is a pop meditation on a number of themes: speed, delirium and distance, disillusion, urbanity, various manifestations of the idea of the wilderness and the wasteland, madness, dissolution, memory, mourning, forgetting, hauntology, hauntings, rapid transits, the non-existent, and conjuring the future. The work mixes magic, culture, mystery, memoir, history, melodrama - it is an invocation, an evocation, with dreamlike freedom of movement between past and present, from personal to universal. 
  This special edition of Soundscapes is credited as follows: 
  All Selections Written & Read by Richard Cabut | Credits – soundscapes/electronics: Chelsea Girls by P.T.Kirk/Akatombo | Disorderly Magic by Necessary Animals (Ryan Bollard - drums, Fritz Catlin - synth, wooden flute, Keith Rodway - synths, Amanda - lx piano, Mixed by Fritz Catlin) | In the Cities by Simon Beesley | Tenth Floor by Band Of Holy Joy (Peter Smith, James Stephen Finn, Johny Brown) | Aniol by Keith Rodway (Written, performed, mixed) | Ghost Music by Anthony Moore - guitar, electronics, Keith Rodway - synth, field recordings, Amanda Thompson - electric piano, Recorded by Anthony Moore, Mixed by Anthony Moore and Keith Rodway. All tracks engineered by Luke Chaudhry at Kingship Studios, south east London. Magic and thanks to all. Audio and print publication by Far West Press. ©2023 (Print) ©2025 (Audio)

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― The Stars - 12...

  John Keats, A E Housman, James...

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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 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - The Stars - An Introduction 
  2 - Bright Star by John Keats 
  3 - Sonnet 14 - Not From the Stars Do I My Judgement Pluck by William Shakespeare 
  4 - Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  5 - Stars by A E Housman 
  6 - Evening Star by Edgar Allan Poe 
  7 - From Sunset to Star Rise by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  8 - Stars by Sara Teasdale 
  9 - The Light of Stars by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  10 - Places Among the Stars by Stephen Crane 
  11 - Star of Ethiopia by Lucian B Watkins 
  12 - When the Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven by James Joyce 
  13 - Hymn To The North Star by William Cullen Bryant

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  The Book of Jonah

  Luke Kennard

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  Read by the author, Luke Kennard‘Kennard’s distinctive voice – surreal, funny, anxious, always overthinking, and cringingly self-deprecating – has made him one of the most widely liked and imitated British poets’ – Tristram Fane Saunders, TLSNone of the Old Testament prophets were especially happy or confident in their calling, but Jonah was the only one who rejected it outright, disobeying direct instruction from God and literally running away. In The Book of Jonah, Luke Kennard transforms the unique and awkward position Jonah’s story occupies in scripture – part dream, part joke, part provocation – into a madcap picaresque which marries the sacred and the absurd.Though Jonah’s encounter with the whale is most commonly interpreted as the story of a reluctant prophet being punished by his maker, Kennard’s Jonah is more wily business traveller than seer. Taking his instruction instead from non-governmental organizations, arts development agencies and public-relations gurus, this Jonah keeps relentlessly busy, accepting any assignment that will take him further away from Nineveh and drown out the word of God in his ears. On his travels he meets errant writers, fixers, artists and consultants, but nobody who can give him a sense of what his work might be beyond a five-star capitalist purgatory in a series of exotic locations. What would it mean to be a prophet – or even a false prophet – in this milieu?Taking on the decimation of funding for the arts, the emptiness of the hero’s journey and a literary culture regarded by wider society with cynicism, ignorance and apathy, The Book of Jonah is a blistering poetry collection from the Forward Prize-winning author of Notes on the Sonnets.

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  The Comedy of Errors

  William Shakespeare

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  The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's earliest and shortest plays. This comedy utilizes slapstick humor, word play, and mistaken identities to create a series of farcical accidents. Over time, the play's title has become an idiom used to describe "an event or series of events made ridiculous by the number of errors that were made throughout."
  In Ephesus, the law forbids entry to any merchants from Syracuse, and if they are discovered within the city, they must pay a thousand marks or be put to death. Aegeon, an old Syracusian merchant, is arrested and Solinus, the Duke of Ephesus, listens to his story of coming to the city. Long ago, Aegeon was on a sea voyage. Traveling with him was his wife, his twin sons, and their twin slaves. The family becomes separated during a tempest; Aegeon, one son, and one slave were rescued together, and the others were never to be seen again. Years later his son Antipholus and his slave Dromio left to search for their long lost siblings; after the boys didn't return, Aegeon set out to bring his son back home. Moved by this story, the duke allows Aegeon one day to get the money to pay his fine and to find his family.

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