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Publisher: Printed Words
Poetry, fiction and other creative writing from a variety of writers based all over the world. This is the second issue of the quarterly e-zine Printed Words.
A poetic project of preservation and sense of place. Rich imagery and language dives deep into the lives of coastal communities in the far north of Norway, from debut poet, Melissa Davies When the fisherman dies Fleinvær stories spill out silver strings, like guts from a spring catch. But between these pages they survive. The Arctic Diaries chart generations of the characters, myths and misremembered details that make up the oral traditions of a windswept archipelago in Norway's far north. Created over a single arctic winter, using stories gathered from the last surviving fisherman of Langholmen, this collection of poems are part history, part field notes, exploring what role the outsider plays in preserving the experience of another.Show book
Heaney's performance reminds us that Beowulf, written near the turn of another millennium, was intended to be heard not read. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and lives to old age before dying in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the end of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. While an abridgment of Heaney's full translation of Beowulf, Heaney prepared this abridgment himself to read for the BBC program from which this recording is taken.Show book
Everyman is a late 15th-century English morality play. "Here begins a treatise (tale) of how the high Father of Heaven sends Death to summon every creature to come and give account of their lives in this world, told in the form of a morality play". Nothing is known of the author but it is performed here by Burgess Meredith.Show book
LibriVox volunteers bring you ## different recordings of Alice Pleasance Liddell by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 24th, 2007.Show book
A treasure trove of stories, poems, and information on the brainy, black-feathered bird that’s rich in insight and humor. This revised and expanded edition of Candace Savage’s best-selling book about ravens and crows is enhanced by additional paintings, drawings, and photos, as well as a fascinating selection of first-person stories and poems about remarkable encounters with crows. In one story, a pack of crows brilliantly thwarts an attack by a Golden Eagle; in another, a mischievous crow rescues the author from grief. And in a third piece, after nursing a battered baby crow back to health until it flies off with other crows, Louise Erdrich hauntingly describes her altered awareness as she listens for the “dark laugh” of crows while she works. Based on two decades of audacious research by scientists around the world, the book also provides an unprecedented, evidence-based glimpse into corvids’ intellectual, social, and emotional lives. But whether viewed through the lens of science, myth, or everyday experience, the result is always the same. These birds are so smart—and so mysterious—they take your breath away.Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.Praise for Crows “A beautifully crafted celebration of these birds.” —Nature “A deft juxtaposition of interesting anecdotes and firsthand accounts of scientific discoveries.” —Canadian Literature “Surprising avian revelations are contained within the pages of Savage’s glorious festival of crow arcana.” —Alberta ViewsShow book
Sleep. That most mysterious of times. The unconscious hours. Everyone needs it. Whether it’s the recommended eight hours, forty winks, cat naps, power naps or other shades of blissful slumber. Sleep offers a respite from the rigors and challenges of the day. A chance for the brain to process what has happened and bring rest and recuperation before the cycle of daytime activity begins again. Also, perchance to dream or, if we are unlucky, the visitation of nightmares. But for some people sleep does not come easy. These can be wakeful hours of frustration or tedium where closing the eyes does not bring the closing of the mind and the slumber so keenly wanted. Part of the problem, in this increasingly frenetic 24/7 world is that we seem reluctant or unable to switch off enough to recuperate; we might miss something. But slumbered hours bring gains in health that far outweigh transitory loss. 01 - Fifty Shades of Slumber - An Introduction 02 - Rest by Richard Le Gallienne 03 - To Sleep by John Keats 04 - Sleep by James Weldon Johnson 05 - Sleep on Thine Eyes by Hafiz 06 - Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton 07 - Sleep by Tagore 08 - Sleep Now, Oh Sleep Now by James Joyce 11 - Sonnet XI - To Sleep by Charlotte Smith 12 - Sleeping Together by Katherine Mansfield 13 - Care Charming Sleep by John Fletcher 14 - Sleep by Mirabai 15 - Song VIII - While Ye Deemed Him A Sleeping by William Morris 16 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson 17 - Love and Sleep by Algernon Charles Swinburne 18 - Nupital Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 19 - Celia, Sleeping or SInging by Thomas Stanley 20 - Idea's Mirror. Sonnet XXXVII. Dear Why Should You Command Me To My Rest 21 - The Indian Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley 22 - From Dewy Dreams, My Soul Arise by James Joyce 23 - At That Hour When All Things Have Repose by James Joyce 24 - Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling 25 - Bed In Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson 26 - Lullaby by Louisa May Alcott 27 - Dreams by Robert Tannahill 28 - The Dream by John Donne 29 - The Dream by Amy Levy 30 - A Ballad of Dreamland by Algernon Charles Swinburne 31 - Dreamland by Edgar Allen Poe 32 - Angel Spirits of Sleep by Robert Seymour Bridges 33 - For the Bed at Kelmscott by William Morris 34 - A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe 35 - The Haunting Dream by Victor Plarr 36 - Dreamland by Christina Georgine Rossetti 37 - Hallucination by F S Flint 38 - The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe 39 - Good Night by Edward Thomas 40 - Good Night by Mary Gilmore 41 - My Sister's Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 42 - The Promise of Sleep by Amy Levy 43 - When Day Is Done by Tagore 44 - A Sleepless Night by Alfred Austin 45 - The Day is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 46 - Sonnet XXVII - Weary with Toil by William Shakespeare 47 - The End of the Day by Katharine Tynan 48 - Sleepless by Sara Teasdale 49 - What of the Darkness by Richard Le Gallienne 50 - The Owl Disturbs the Bard's Sleep by Dafydd ap Gwilym 51 - Insomnia by James ThomsonShow book
