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  Under Milk Wood

  Dylan Thomas

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  Matthew Rhys and Kate Burton headline a Welsh and Welsh-American cast celebrating the centenary of Dylan Thomas’ birth in a performance of his timeless “play for voices.” With characters such as Captain Cat, Polly Garter, and Nogood Boyo, Thomas brings to life the inhabitants of the fictional town of Llareggub in funny, poignant, and poetic detail. Includes a conversation with Andrew Lycett, author of  Dylan Thomas: A New Life.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production, starring Matthew Rhys, Kate Burton, Laura Evans, John Francis, Jason Hughes, Christopher Monger, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Jo Osmond, and Morgan Ritchie. Directed by Sara Sugarman. Recorded before a live audience by L.A. Theatre Works.

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  Liian Paha Sappi

  Aaro Hellaakoski

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  The poem Liian Paha Sappi by Aaro Hellaakoski, which tells the tale of a child struggling to keep his temper:  
   A TEMPER TOO BAD 
   How it burns my sisu  when I have to be quiet  If my will would be fulfilled  the undertaker would get grain. 
   A little boy has gotten  a temper too bad  This sisu cannot be put out  by even the most snowy Lapland.  
   This project is unusual in that most of the readers are non-Finnish speakers, and learned the poem phonically. (Summary by Juho Fröjd and Catharine Eastman)

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  The Poetry of Alice Meynell -...

  Alice Meynell

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  Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson was born on 22nd September 1847 in Barnes, London. 
   
  Her family travelled widely meaning that Alice’s early years were spent around England, Switzerland, and France before finally settling in Italy. Her dedicated interest in religion brought a conversion to the Catholic faith.  Much of that viewpoint is seen in her first published volume in 1875, ‘Preludes’. 
   
  In 1876 she married Wilfred Meynell, the newspaper publisher and editor and together they set up and published a number of magazines as well as publishing the initial works of several poets including Francis Thompson. 
   
  Despite a hectic lifestyle of her own poetry and essays together with the family business she gave birth to eight children. Her health though was erratic, and she was frequently incapacitated by illness including migraines and depressions. 
   
  As the new century dawned she along with many other artists began to question the colonial needs of Empire with its segregation and oppression. In particular she sought and gained a role in the Women’s Suffrage movement as it attempted to obtain greater equality for women.  
   
  Today Alice is often overlooked for the quality and stature of her poetry which, during her career brought serious official consideration. She was twice considered but passed over for the post of poet laureate after the deaths of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Alfred Austin. 
   
  Alice Meynell died on 27th November 1922. She is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in London. 
  1 - The Poetry of Alice Meynell - An Introduction 
  2 - The Poet to His Childhood by Alice Meynell 
  3 - To A Poet by Alice Meynell 
  4 - A Poet of One Mood by Alice Meynell 
  5 - The Modern Poet - A Song of Derivations by Alice Meynell 
  6 - The Poet to Nature by Alice Meynell 
  7 - In February by Alice Meynell 
  8 - Cradle-Song At Twilight by Alice Meynell 
  9 - Song. As the Inhastening Tide Doth Roll by Alice Meynell 
  10 - Song of the Day to the Night by Alice Meynell 
  11 - Soeur Monique. A Rondeau by Couperin by Alice Meynell 
  12 - To A Lost Melody by Alice Meynell 
  13 - Singers To Come by Alice Meynell 
  14 - A Shattered Lute by Alice Meynell 
  15 - Regrets by Alice Meynell 
  16 - Parted by Alice Meynell 
  17 - After A Parting by Alice Meynell 
  18 - Sonnet. Thoughts in Separation by Alice Meynell 
  19 - In Autumn by Alice Meynell 
  20 - My Heart Shall Be Thy Garden by Alice Meynell 
  21 - Your Own Fair Youth by Alice Meynell 
  22 - The Lover Urges the Better Thrift by Alice Meynell 
  23 - To The Beloved by Alice Meynell 
  24 - The Love of Narcissus by Alice Meynell 
  25 - An Unmarked Festival by Alice Meynell 
  26 - A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Age by Alice Meynell 
  27 - San Lorenzo Giustiniani's Mother by Alice Meynell 
  28 - Maternity by Alice Meynell 
  29 - The Modern Mother by Alice Meynell 
  30 - Summer In England 1914 by Alice Meynell 
  31 - The Lady of the Lambs by Alice Meynell 
  32 - Builders of Ruins by Alice Meynell 
  33 - The Lady Poverty by Alice Meynell 
  34 - At Night by Alice Meynell 
  35 - Renouncement by Alice Meynell 
  36 - To the Beloved Dead - A Lament by Alice Meynell 
  37 - Christ in The Universe by Alice Meynell 
  38 - Veni Creator by Alice Meynell

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  Our Europe

  Laurent Gaudé

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  This “urgent, epic” poem exploring the history of Europe “encourages both lucidity and humility, to try and save what beauty is left in the world” (Les Echos, FR). 
   
  “For some time now, Europe seems to have forgotten it is the daughter of epics and utopia. It has been drained by its inability to remind its citizens of this. Too distant, disembodied, the concept often arouses nothing more than disillusioned boredom. And yet, the history of Europe is one of constant upheaval. So much fire and death; inventions and art, too. Literature, perhaps, can remind us of this: that the European history is one of muscle, vigour, passion, anger and joy.”—Laurent Gaude, from the introduction 
   
  In Our Europe, Prix Goncourt-winning author Laurent Gaude makes an impassioned plea for Europeans to remember their history and heritage. From the industrial revolution through two world wars and to the birth of the European Union, Our Europe sets in free verse the story of 150 years of growth, confrontation, hope, defeat and passion. It is both “an Iliad for our times” and a heartfelt appeal for a Europe that celebrates difference, solidarity, and freedom (L’Echo de Bruxelles, FR).

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  buckets (NHB Modern Plays)

  Adam Barnard

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  How to fill what's left of your day. How to fill the rest of your days. Sick buckets, bucket rattling, bucket lists, buckets of love.
  Wry, emotive, funny and heartfelt, buckets is a play with a unique perspective on a universal dilemma: how do you deal with the fact that time always runs out?
  Across thirty-three interconnected scenes – some just a few lines, others mini-plays in their own right – buckets swings through a kaleidoscopic world of sadness and happiness, illness and health, youth and experience, kissing and crying, singing and dying.
  Adam Barnard's open-ended text can be performed by any number and composition of actors.
  buckets premiered at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in May 2015.

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  West Mountain Epilogue - A...

  Jay Parini

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  A new collection, the first in well over a decade, from acclaimed poet Jay Parini, which revolves around his deep connection to nature and underlines his concerns about the impacts of pollution and climate change. Published on the heels of a major new biography of Gore Vidal (Doubleday, 10/2015), and around the same time as the anticipated release of a new film based on his book Benjamin's Crossing, this collection will also be his first since the release of the popular and acclaimed film The Last Station, based on his novel of that same title. In these beautiful, haunting poems, Parini writes about the landscapes of Mining country, of the railroads of Pennsylvania, of farm country, of world's lost, families dispersed, faith tried and contested.

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