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  A Good House

  Amy Jephta

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  'Once they've been here long enough, they're no longer squatters. Then they're simply…
  Neighbours.'
  In the quaint suburban community of Stillwater, a mysterious shack springs up from the dust with the inhabitants nowhere to be seen. As speculation abounds, new residents Sihle and Bonolo are recruited by their neighbourhood to be the face of a campaign to demolish the shack.
  Funny, thrilling and provocative, Amy Jephta's play A Good House is an explosive exploration of race, resentment and community politics, about a couple who discover the limits of good neighbourliness and what is required to fit in.
  It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Nancy Medina, in a co‑production with Bristol Old Vic in association with The Market Theatre, Johannesburg.

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Katherine Chapman Tillman, Akiko...

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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 - Hair - An Introduction 
  2 - When Mandy Combs Her Head by Katherine Chapman Tillman 
  3 - Black Hair by Akiko Yosano 
  4 - Grey Hairs by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva 
  5 - A Study In Gray by Ambrose Bierce 
  6 - Ophelia by Elinor Wylie 
  7 - Sonnet 68 - Thus is His Cheek the Map of Days Outworn by William Shakespeare 
  8 - To A Lady Who Presented to the Author....  by Lord Byron 
  9 - Your Strange Hair by Renee Vivien 
  10 - A Visit to the Asylum by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  11 - The Barber by John Gray 
  12 - The Hairy Dog by Herbert Asquith 
  13 - The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes

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  Top 10 Poets The - Nature - Five...

  William Wordsworth

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
   
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
   
  The world of nature is often the first resource a poet has for muse and inspiration.  Nature has infinite ways of both revealing herself and putting together landscapes of majesty and wonder in everything from a flower to the universe. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 Poets - Nature - An Introduction 
  2 - To the Daisy by William Wordsworth 
  3 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 
  4 - The Kitten and the Falling Leaves by William Wordsworth 
  5 - It Was an April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth 
  6 - My Hearts Leaps Up by William Wordsworth 
  7 - from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 
  8 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone by Walt Whitman 
  9 - Warble Of Lilac Time By Walt Whitman 
  10 - A July Afternoon By The Pond by Walt Whitman 
  11 - A Carol of Harvest for 1867 by Walt Whitman 
  12 - In Drear Nighted December by John Keats 
  13 - Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats 
  14 - Ode to Autumn by John Keats 
  15 - On the Sea by Keats 
  16 - Lines Written in the Highlands After a Visit to Burn's Country by John Keats 
  17 - How the Old Mountains Drip with Sunset by Emily Dickinson 
  18 - Nature, The Gentlest Mother by Emily Dickinson 
  19 - Angels, in the Early Morning by Emily Dickinson 
  20 - I Have a Bird in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  21 - Two Butterflies Went Out at Noon by Emily Dickinson 
  22 - Nature's Hymn to the Deity by John Clare 
  23 - All Nature Has a Feeling by  John Clare 
  24 - The Lament of Swordy Well by John Clare 
  25 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare 
  26 - Little Trotty Wagtail by John Clare 
  27 - Snow Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  28 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  29 - Woods In Winter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  30 - By the Seaside - The Fire of Driftwood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  31 - The Sound of The Sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  32 - In Vision I Roamed by Thomas Hardy 
  33 - The Calf by Thomas Hardy 
  34 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - Last Week in October by Thomas Hardy 
  36 - To Flowers from Italy by Thomas Hardy 
  37 - Where Go the Boats by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  38 - The Canoe Speaks by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  39 - Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  40 - The Cow by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  41 - The Gardener by Robert Louis Stevenson  
  42 - Berrying by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  43 - May-Day by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  44 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  45 - Water by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  46 - Threnody by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  47 - All Things Will Die by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  48 - The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  49 - The Owl by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  50 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  51 - Locksley Hall by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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  Until The Sky Runs Out of Rain

  Neil Bebber

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  Performed and Recorded at The Gaiety Theatre in Ayr on the 15th of September 2023.Following warnings of an imminent catastrophic flood, everyone has been evacuated except for Elsie and Bert, who stubbornly decided to stay put. As the wind howls and the increasingly heavy rain batters the windows outside, they sit on their bed enjoying their “picnic at the end of the world”, made from the entire contents of their freezer. Reminiscing about happier times in their candlelit sanctuary, they’re oblivious to the rapidly rising water levels downstairs. The next morning, woken by the sun shining through a gap in the curtains, Bert goes to the window to survey the damage. He throws open the curtains, then stands in stunned silence, naked and swaying, as he tries to comprehend the view that greets him.

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  Changes and Chances

  Leonard Ng

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  Uncompromising yet accessible, the six sequences in Changes and Chances explore love, sorrow, time, nature, and humanity. By turns passionate, hermetic, and heartbreaking, they simultaneously endure and celebrate all the imperfections of the world. Leonard Ng blends free verse with adaptations of both Western and Asian forms to create a musical poetry grounded in the traditions of both East and West. 
   
   
  A purchase of the book comes with a complimentary Changes and Chances postcard (while stocks last)!

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  Footprints

  James Ten Eyck

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  Footprints are a collection of poems that were either written or revised recently or recalled from work begun and lost fifty years before. Some recall pleasant memories of my beloved Veronica and some of her later struggles with ill health. She was born and grew up in Dublin and Ireland remained a special place for both of us. The DART from Howth to Greystones "tunnels under Queen V's crown and pops out for the view above Killiney Bay" where "the magic face of Ireland is found." We met and married in Syracuse. Events and places from that time are featured in some of the poems. Newtown Plus Five was written shortly after news coverage of the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook school massacre. An Elegy for One and Many commemorates the life of a friend of the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue rampage who died during the same period of time. Many of the poems are written in traditional verse forms and rhyme schemes. 
  A number of poems reflect concerns about America: the face it presents to the world and the state of its democracy. Ode from a Colonial Bowl recounts a family history of its founding. 
  Flint where "once-upon-a-time America coursed through (its) leaden arteries to nurse its middle class." In Vietnam "we've grown old, some fifty years removed from when our universe was rolled into a white-hot ball," to find the common threads we shared in youth to pursue our common legacy. American Graffiti asks, "Can Cicero and Caesar coexist within republican constraint?" 
  Let Freedom Ring calls upon us to answer "the distant bells of freedom pealing " in Ukraine. The challenge is to understand how both poems can be compatible in our logic.

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