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  The Winslow Boy

  Terence Rattigan

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  Based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and first staged in 1946, The Winslow Boy has been revived many times since, including at The Old Vic in 2013.
  Ronnie Winslow is expelled from naval college, having been accused of petty theft. Enraged, his father Arthur engages a lawyer to challenge the Admiralty to prove the charges in court – but public opinion is very much against the Winslows, and each member of the family is suffering...
  This edition includes an authoritative introduction by Dan Rebellato, a biographical sketch and a chronology.
  'A sterling example of Rattigan's dramatic skill and humanity... deeply poignant' Telegraph
  'A playwright of acute emotional intelligence, elegant wit, and an extraordinary gift for expressive construction... thrilling' Independent

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  Owl of Minerva - Poems

  Eric Pankey

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  A Walt Whitman Award–winning poet seeks the spiritual within everyday physical objects in this luminous collection. 
   
  Taking its name from the Roman goddess of wisdom and her companion bird, Owl of Minerva turns astonishingly precise attention to the physical world, scouring it for evidence of the spiritual as the poet travels through such places as Appalachia, New England, Venice, Spain, the Caribbean, and the American Midwest. Along the way, Eric Pankey ponders mortality, religious narratives and iconography, the continued press of childhood on the present, and the simultaneous violence and beauty of the natural world. 
   
  At the book’s core are three ambitious poems titled “The Complete List of Everything,” which together offer an extended vision of American longing and connection—as well as a window into the sort of compendium of images and moments a sustained devotion to poetry can yield. “The hope was to construct // A coherent totality of meaning from odds / And ends,” Pankey writes, and so much of this book is about the difficult work of constructing meaning from the available material all around us. This book is an extraordinary example of lyric-meditative journaling—a large and profound collection by a brilliant poet writing at the height of his powers. 
   
  “Pankey remains one of our leading practitioners of the metaphysical poem.” —C. Dale Young, author of Prometeo

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  The Rape of Lucrece - Performed...

  William Shakespeare

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  The Rape of Lucrece is a brilliant, brutal narrative poem giving an account of the terrible crime of rape and its dreadful consequences for victim and perpetrator.  As ever, though, Shakespeare goes beyond the obvious, following the ramifications of the crime wherever they take him, shining a light on a band of human-behaviour encompassing the bestial and the beautiful.  Gerard Logan's reading of Shakespeare's 1594 work is a stunning performance.  Olivier award nominated Logan's emotion and varied tones make this title perfect for any listener, whether or not they have studied this great work.  This title will appeal to many people, from casual listeners to lovers of narrative poems, and of course is the perfect masterclass for any aspiring performer.  The incredible production values and music (composed especially for this edition) add to the overall sense of perfection.

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  Short Poetry Collection 141

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2015.

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  A Doll's House - Full Text and...

  Henrik Ibsen

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  The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding.
  A Doll's House is Ibsen's revolutionary tale of Nora's awakening to her need for a life of her own.
  Translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish.

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  The Healing Next Time

  Roy McFarlane

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  Roy McFarlane's second poetry collection, The Healing Next Time, is a timely and unparalleled book of interwoven sequences on institutional racism, deaths in custody and of a life story set against the ever-changing backdrop of Birmingham at the turn of the millennium. Here forms a potent and resolute narrative in lyrical and multidimensional poems which refuse to look the other way or accept the whitewashed version of events.
  Courageous, rageful and mournful, these are poems of Black history and Black presence, poems of witness and poems of activism. McFarlane's intricate lines make record of injustice and mark the names of those who have lost their lives and dignity to prejudice and hatred. The Healing Next Time also asks vital questions of the future, and of the reader – and reminds us where the power to change things lies. It is also a poetry of personal discovery, of revelation and resilience – where the influence of Jazz and of James Baldwin infuse and shape this unique, remarkable book.

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