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  Here (NHB Modern Plays)

  Clive Judd

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  A family packs into a small house with a tangled history. Matt is here, yearning to reach someone he's lost. His cousin Jess is here, too; she just wants to feel something. Anything. And Aunt Monica and Jeff are still here, just about. Together, ferocious and funny, they laugh, they scrap, they remember.
  Tonight these four people, inextricably bound yet so far apart, will finally confront the old decisions that haunt them. How does a family make a future, when everything that holds it together lies in the past?
  Clive Judd's play Here is a tender, funny and utterly truthful story about family and feeling. It was premiered by Papatango at Southwark Playhouse, London, in November 2022 after winning the Papatango New Writing Prize, whose previous discoveries have gone on to win Olivier, Critics' Circle and OffWestEnd Awards and be performed worldwide.

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  The Ending of the Path - A...

  Brett C. Persson

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  Step into a beautiful farewell to poetry that forms the culmination of a decades-long love affair. 
  As the powerful conclusion to a 35-year-long love affair with poetry, this poignant book compiles author Brett C Persson's farewell to haiku, echoing with a bittersweet yet beautiful send-off to a passion that helped support him through his darkest moments. 
  Weaving together timeless themes of nature, religion, joy, love, loss, death, and the key moments that shaped his life, this collection ranges over the breadth of human experience, bringing things full circle and serving as the starting point for new adventures into the world of literature. Through the minimalist and simplistic beauty of traditional Japanese haiku, this book captures passing thoughts and crystallizes them into vivid mental imagery, painting a portrait with every verse. 
  With a dash of random haikus to lighten the mood and give readers some thought-provoking ideas to reflect on, The Ending of the Path teaches us that although all good things must come to an end, they often serve as the foundation for new and exciting directions. This collection is a heartfelt book that will soothe the souls of poetry fans, offering a fresh new perspective on experiences that the greatest poets have grappled with for generations.

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  The Poetry of Alexander Pope -...

  Alexander Pope

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  Alexander Pope was born on May 21st, 1688 into a Catholic family in London.  
  His education was affected by the then recent Test Acts, which upheld the status of the Church of England and banned Catholics from teaching.  In effect this meant his formal education was over by the age of 12 but Pope was to immerse himself in classical literature and languages and too, in effect, educate himself.   
  From this age too he also suffered from numerous health problems including Pott’s disease, a type of tuberculosis, which resulted in a stunted, deformed body.  Only to grow to a height of 4’ 6”, with a severe hunchback and complicated further by respiratory difficulties, high fevers, inflamed eyes and abdominal pain all of which served to further isolate him, initially, from society. 
  However his talent was evident to all. Best known for his satirical verse, his translations of Homer and the use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare. 
  With the publication of Pastorals in 1709 followed by An Essay on Criticism in 1711 and his most famous work The Rape of the Lock in 1712, Pope became not only famous but wealthy. 
  His translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey further enhanced both reputation and purse.  His engagement to produce an opulent new edition of Shakespeare met with a mixed reception. Pope attempted to "regularise" Shakespeare's metre and rewrote some of his verse and cut 1500 lines, that Pope considered to be beneath the Bard’s standard, to mere footnotes. 
  Alexander Pope died on May 30th, 1744 at his villa at Twickenham (where he created his famous grotto and gardens) and was buried in the nave of the nearby Church of England Church - St Mary the Virgin. 
  Over the years and centuries since his death Pope’s work has been in and out of favour but with this distance he is now truly recognised as one of England’s greatest poets. 
   This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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  The Crocodile - Legendary author...

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow on 11th November, 1821 to distinguished multi-ethnic parents from a Lithuanian background.   
   
  His childhood years were at the family home in hospital grounds which also contained an orphanage, an insane asylum and a cemetery for criminals.  The young Fyodor often disobeyed his father by talking to the ill in the hospital gardens.   
   
  His health was compromised at age 9 when he experienced his first epileptic fit. By the time he was a teenager both parents had died and he was now enrolled in a military academy where he graduated and eventually became a Lieutenant in 1842.  He left military service the next year. 
   
  In 1846 he published his first novel ‘Poor Cow’ to great literary acclaim.  His next was unable to emulate that success but his short stories helped provide an income.  Life as an author was definitely difficult. As he began his next work he was arrested and incarcerated for treason and participation in the political and literary Petrashevsky Circle. Although the case was weak and unjustified he was sentenced to 4 years of hard labour followed by 5 years of military service in a Siberian regiment.  
   
  Despite the undoubted hardships and setbacks in his life, and whether they helped or hindered his writing, his talents produced many exceptional works of literature including ‘Crime and Punishment’, ‘The Idiot’ and ‘The Brothers Karamazov’.   
   
  Dostoevsky’s ability to get under the skin of his characters and show the inner workings of their mind was hugely influential and ahead of its time.  Interwoven with this was the influence of the broader social, spiritual and political forces at work in a person's psyche.   
   
  Fyodor Dostoevsky struggled financially and remained in poor health for much of his adult life.  He died from a lung haemorrhage on 9th February, 1881. 
   
  In the Crocodile a man is swallowed whole and through this Gogol explores themes and ideas that no other author would attempt. Absurdist genius.

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  Poems for Honeymooners - Love...

  W B Yeats

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  Honeymoons are a relatively modern concept in the western world, dating from the 19th Century and have since become a multi-billion dollar industry turning the beginning of wedded bliss into a smorgsboard of ‘must have this’ and ‘must do that’.   
   
  However, celebrating a marriage is something we perhaps all feel should be a more intimate occasion.  After all this part of the journey is possibly unique as well as universal and timeless.  Sex, possibly for the first time, is now an expression of the wedded state, cementing and reframing the relationship as a new couple.   
   
  Within the lines of this volume are perfect poems for those on such a journey, whether it a romantic holiday setting or relaxed at home as our classic poets revel in the sensual, the sexy and above all the love for that very special chosen person in our lives.   Our verse includes those from Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rossetti, W B Yeats, Khalil Gibran, Ella Wheeler Wilcox and many more. 
   
  01 - Poetry for Honeymooners - An Introduction 
  02 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats 
  03 - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns 
  04 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  05 - I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  06 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson 
  07 - Love and Sleep by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  08 - Nuptial Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  09 - The Sunne Rising by John Donne 
  10 - Song of the Flower by Khalil Gibran 
  11 - My Delight and Your Delight by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  12 - The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe 
  13 - The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn 
  14 - A Nuptial Verse to Mistress Elizabeth Lee, Now Lady Tracy by Robert Herrick 
  15 - The Bride by Laurence Hope aka Violet Nicholson 
  02 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  17 - Her Breast is Fit For Pearls by Emily Dickinson 
  18 -  Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  19 - The Flea by John Donne 
  20 - To Celia by Ben Jonson 
  21 - She Lay Naked All in Bed - Anonymous 
  22 - Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick 
  23 - Amores - Book I Elegy V - Corinna in an Afternoon by Ovid 
  24 - For the Courtesan Ch'ing Lin Wu Zao 
  25 - The Kiss by Charlotte Dacre 
  26 - That Kiss By Daniel Sheehan 
  27 - The First Kiss Of Love by Lord Byron 
  28 - First Love by John Clare 
  29 - Longing by Matthew Arnold 
  30 - Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  31 - Sonnet IV - Lovesight by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  32 - Love is Enough by William Morris 
  33 - Lips and Eyes by Thomas Carew 
  34 - She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron 
  35 - When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  36 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller 
  37 - Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day by William Shakespeare 
  38 - Beauty That is Never Old by James Weldon Johnson 
  39 - Bright Star by John Keats 
  40 - Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  41 - A Bridal Song by John Ford 
  42 - Wedded by Isaac Rosenberg 
  43 - To a Husband by Anne Kingsmill Finch 
  44  - On Marriage by Khalil Gibran 
  45 - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale 
  46 - Unending Love by Tagore 
  47 - Fidelity by D H Lawrence 
  48 - June, a Tale by William Cowper 
  49 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear 
  50 - An Extract of the Wife's Will by Charlotte Bronte 
  51 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  52 - Terminus by Edith Wharton 
  53 - The Good Morrow by John Donne 
  54 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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  Romantic Poems For Lovers

  Mahesh Sharma

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  Poetry is the emotion emanating from the heart of the poet, which can be in the heart of any lover. The poet uses exaggerated rhetoric and language to express the loving feelings emanating from his heart. 
  There are mainly two expressions in any poetry - love, and separation. Most of the poems describe the love between a girl and a young man. Poems can be sung as well as can be in the form of prose. At present, most of the poems are prevalent in prose form. Loving readers read such poems with great interest. 
  In the presented book, the feelings of the inner heart of lovers have been presented through poetry. When readers read these poems, they will surely feel as if all this has happened to them as well. These poems can also refresh the memories of the readers; At the same time, they can also become a good means of expressing the feelings present in their hearts for their loved ones at present. 
  This book of poems is dedicated to all boyfriends and girlfriends I hope they will like it.

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