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  Born in the USA - The New York...

  Herman Melville, George Arnold,...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. 
   
  The United States may be many things: the world’s policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. 
   
  Little wonder that’s its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art.  Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up.   
   
  In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in one of the most famous cities in the World: New York. Within its five boroughs are a small universe of wonder and magic, a kaleidoscope of almost everything the planet has to offer.  In past times New York was a gateway to a new land and a new future whatever the misery and tragedy of your former life.  Of course, this golden vision was not attained by everyone.  But our local poets, including such luminaries as Emma Lazarus, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Alice Duer Miller, and Alan Seeger bring vision and truth to this unrivalled city and its hallowed status in the world of verse. 
   
   
  1 - Born in the USA. The New York City Poets.  Exploring American Poetry - An Introduction 
  2 - September by George Arnold 
  3 - October by George Arnold 
  4 - A Chant of Love for England by Helen Gray Cone 
  5 - Rheims Cathedral, 1914 by Grace Hazard Conkling 
  6 - To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window by Adelaide Crapsey 
  7 - Keats by Adelaide Crapsey 
  8 - The Revolt of Mother by Alice Duer Miller 
  9 - To the Night Breeze by Alice & Caroline Duer 
  10 - Nathan Hale by Francis Miles Finch 
  11 - The Wild Honey Suckle by Phillip Freneau 
  12 - A Political Litany by Philip Freneau 
  13 - To the Memory of the Americans Who Fell at Eutaw by Philip Freneau 
  14 - Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe 
  15 - Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe 
  16 - This Curse by Henry James 
  17 - Old Manuscript by Alfred Kreymborg 
  18 - Cradle by Alfred Kreymborg 
  19 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  20 - A June Night by Emma Lazarus 
  21 - Assurance by Emma Lazarus 
  22 - Evil In Design by Emma Lazarus 
  23 - America by Herman Melville 
  24 - Dupont's Round Fight (November 1861) by Herman Melville 
  25 - Look-Out Mountain by Herman Melville 
  26 - Shiloh by Herman Melville 
  27 - The Portent by Herman Melville 
  28 - A Visit From St Nicholas (T'Was The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 
  29 - Aspiration by Henrietta Cordelia Ray 
  30 - Life by Henrietta Cordelia Ray 
  31 - Silent Thoughts by Charles Lewis Reason 
  32 - The Spirit Voice or Liberty Call to The Disfranchised by Charles Lewis Reason 
  33 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger 
  34 - Resurgam by Alan Seeger 
  35 - Sonnet 12 by Alan Seeger 
  36 - At the Tomb of Napoleon by Alan Seeger 
  37 - Battle Sleep by Edith Wharton 
  38 - Survival by Edith Wharton 
  39 - Non Dolet by Edith Wharton 
  40 - Terminus by E

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  The Odyssey

  Homer Homer

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  "The Odyssey" is an ancient Greek epic poem traditionally attributed to Homer, dating back to the 8th century BCE. It is the sequel to "The Iliad" and focuses on the hero Odysseus's long journey home to Ithaca after the fall of Troy. Along the way, he encounters mythical creatures, gods, and goddesses, and undergoes numerous trials and adventures. The epic also follows his wife Penelope and son Telemachus as they contend with suitors who have invaded their home during Odysseus's absence. "The Odyssey" explores themes of heroism, homecoming, loyalty, and the human condition.

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  African Queen

  Mr Punch Audiobooks

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  Full Cast Radio Drama 
  Set in 1915 on the treacherous rivers of war-torn Africa. Humphrey Bogart plays the gin sodden river trader, Charlie Allnut, who reluctantly agrees to help the prim missionary Rose Sayer, played in this radio version by Greer Garson, to travel down river on a hazardous journey and destroy a German gun boat. Humphrey Bogart won the 1951 Oscar for Best Actor, and again plays the uncouth captain of the tramp steamer in this special radio production.   
  This high-quality audiobook has been re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcast.

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  The Bounds

  Stewart Pringle

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  The year is 1553, the true Golden Age of English football. It's the Allen Valley Whitsun Game, and men will die today.
  This is the big game, and it's been raging for hours. Percy and Rowan are out in the middle of nowhere, miles from the action, when a stranger joins them. A stranger with tidings that will blow their world apart.
  Time passes. Night falls. The great chain of being collapses. And they're losing the bloody football...
  Stewart Pringle's play The Bounds is a darkly comedic tale of national divides, folk horror and the end of the world as we know it. It was first co-produced by Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, and the Royal Court Theatre, London, and performed at both theatres in 2024, directed by Jack McNamara.

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  G K Chesterton: The Selected...

  G. K. Chesterton

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  'The men that walked in darkness / Had found the light before.'
  
  A vibrant collection of poems illustrating the wit, depth and imaginative range from one of the most distinctive voices of the twentieth century: G.K. Chesterton.
  
  Blending humour, paradox and profound spiritual insight, Chesterton's poems celebrate the ordinary, challenge modern cynicism and champion faith with an unrelenting joy. From rollicking ballads like 'The Rolling English Road' to meditative pieces such as 'The Ballad of the White Horse', this selection captures Chesterton's trademark use of playful rhythm, sharp intellect and deep moral conviction. It is a journey through verse that evokes wonder, defends tradition and sings with clarity and courage. This audiobook edition is beautifully read by David Rintoul.
  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) was an English novelist, philosopher, journalist and critic. A Christian apologist, he is famed for creating the fictional priest-detective Father Brown. His writing was also renowned for his sense of humour: known as 'the prince of paradox', Chesterton often turned common sayings upside down. Admired by several of his literary contemporaries, Chesterton's work is still widely read today.

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  Useful Junk

  Erika Meitner

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  A master of documentary poetry, Erika Meitner takes up the question of desire and intimacy in her latest collection of poems.In her previous five collections of poetry, Erika Meitner has established herself as one of America’s most incisive observers, cherished for her remarkable ability to temper catastrophe with tenderness. In her newest collection Useful Junk, Meitner considers what it means to be a sexual being in a world that sees women as invisible—as mothers, customers, passengers, worshippers, wives. These poems render our changing bodies as real and alive, shaped by the sense memories of long-lost lovers and the still thrilling touch of a spouse after years of parenthood, affirming that we are made of every intimate moment we have ever had. Letter poems to a younger poet interspersed throughout the collection question desire itself and how new technologies—Uber, sexting, Instagram—are reframing self-image and shifting the ratios of risk and reward in erotic encounters.With dauntless vulnerability, Meitner travels a world of strip malls, supermarkets, and subway platforms, remaining porous and open to the world, always returning to the intimacies rooted deep within the self as a shout against the dying earth. Boldly affirming that pleasure is a vital form of knowledge, Useful Junk reminds us that our selves are made real and beautiful by our embodied experiences and that our desire is what keeps us alive.

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