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  Short Poetry Collection 083

  Various

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  This is a collection of poems submitted by LibriVox volunteers for the months of September and October 2009.

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  The Boys At Twilight - Poems...

  Glyn Maxwell

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  The poems in this volume were selected by Glyn Maxwell from TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON (published in 1990, when he was twenty-eight), OUT OF THE RAIN (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize), and REST FOR THE WICKED. Maxwell “is a formalist,” wrote Robert McIlwaine about his first book, “but . . . he is an outspoken anti-elitist social poet. His strenuous well-wrought poems . . . come from an English tradition of technical virtuosity with plain speech.” The Boys at Twilight shows, sometimes comically, men at war, boys at play, boys grown up, men overreaching and reverting. Other concerns are the dangers of authority and mob psychology, the absurdities of stardom and consumerism, the heroism of the decent, and the wisdom of doubt. His subjects range from biblical stories to the “Tale of the Chocolate Egg,” which is a long, “pitch-perfect description of a bored young man’s growing obsession with a new kind of candy” (Adam Kirsch, New Republic). Always in his work, “Maxwell knows that to see into is not necessarily to see through . . . His virtuosity has a ballast of sobriety” (Poetry Book Society).

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  Fifty Shades of July - 50 of the...

  Walt Whitman, William Blake,...

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  The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar saunters into mid-summer.  Temperatures rise still further.  The landscape may wilt under oppressive heat but is still a spectacle of colour and structure that only Mother Nature has the resources for. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of July - An Introduction 
  2 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman 
  3 - An Afternoon in July by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon 
  4 - I Saw England - July Night by Ivor Gurney 
  5 - A Soldiers Cemetery by John William Streets (Killed and Missing in Action on 1st July 1916 Aged 31) 
  6 - July 2nd 1863 by Tom Reynolds 
  7 - Fourth of July by Julia A Moore 
  8 - July 4th 1857 by Alfred Gibbs Campbell 
  9 - America, From The National Ode July 4th 1876 by James Bayard Taylor 
  10 - 4th July 1882, Malines, Midnight by James Kenneth Stephen 
  11 - Ode For the 4th of July by James Monroe Whitfield 
  12 - Ode For July 4th 1917 by H P Lovecraft 
  13 - Broadway, New York, July 1916 by George Sterling 
  14 - London in July by Amy Levy 
  15 - St Martin's Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  16 - Between the Dusk of Summer by William Ernest Henley 
  17 - In This Summer by Daniel Sheehan 
  18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare 
  19 - A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly 
  20 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  21 - The Sweets of the Rose  by Hafiz 
  22 - The Rose by John Cournos 
  23 - The Secret Rose by William Butler Yeats 
  24 - The Forest Path by Lucy Maud Montgomery 
  25 - Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats 
  26 - Sailing to Byzantium by W B Yeats 
  27 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  28 - On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats 
  29 - Clouds by Mirabai 
  30 - Breton Afternoon by Ernest Christopher Dowson 
  31 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen 
  32 - How the Old Mountains Drip With Sunset by Emily Dickinson 
  33 - The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  34 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford 
  35 - July 9th 1872 by Abram Joseph Ryan 
  36 - On Leaving Ireland, July 14th 1916 by Tom Kettle 
  37 - On My Sons Return Out of England July 17th 1661 by Anne Bradstreet 
  38 - Sonnet July 18th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles 
  39 - Verses Upon the Burning of Our House July 18th 1666 by Anne Bradstreet 
  40 - Written in July by Samuel Rogers 
  41 - Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  42 - The School Boy by William Blake 
  43 - Answer July by Emily Dickinson 
  44 - Towser, a True Tale, 20th July 1806 by Robert Tannahill 
  45 - Summer Dawn by William Morris 
  46 - Summer by Alexander Pope 
  47 - A Night Rain in Summer by James Henry Leigh Hunt 
  48 - Summer Night by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  49 - Sonnet at Dover Cliffs July 20th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles 
  50 - Picnic July 1917 by Rose Macaulay 
  51 - Sonnet at Ostend July 22nd 1787 by William Lisle Bowles

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  The Baby (NHB Modern Plays)

  Chris Hannan

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  Rome, 78 BC. The ruler, Sulla, has just died, and professional mourners have been appointed to wail at his state funeral. But Sulla was hated by the poor and the working classes, and the wailers - led by Macu - threaten to strike, with dire consequences for them and for Macu's daughter...
  Written in vivid, contemporary language, Chris Hannan's modern epic The Baby is about a polyglot, violent city at the heart of a divided nation.
  The play was first produced at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in October 1990, directed by Michael Boyd.
  'An epic play humanised by Hannan's concerns for the lives of ordinary people caught up in events seemingly beyond their control' The Times
  'A period epic complete with all the trappings you would expect from the great Elizabethan and Jacobean classicists who wowed their audiences with heightened language, earth-shattering emotion, weighty moral dilemmas, lowbrow comedy and disturbing, bloody tragedy.' Scotland on Sunday
  'Chris Hannan's new play explores love and the grief it can engender when marred by circumstances. And for the fullness of that grief, add in anger and guilt, distraction to the point of self-destruction, and bewildered hurt that makes flesh feel as if skin would burst, it is so uncontainable. The context is Ancient Rome but the issues are timeless and on-going... touching directly on any place or age where ordinary lives are wracked by power politics.' The Herald

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  Before the Next Bomb Drops -...

  Remi Kanazi

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  “A beautiful but urgent clarion call for freedom, justice, and resistance in every pocket of the world, from occupied Palestine to gentrified Brooklyn” (Marc Lamont Hill, academic and activist).  we are the boat / returning to dock / we are the footprints / on the northern trail / we are the iron / coloring the soil / we cannot / be erased —from “Refugee”   Remi Kanazi’s poetry presents an unflinching look at the lives of Palestinians under occupation and as refugees scattered across the globe. He captures the Palestinian people’s stubborn refusal to be erased, gives voice to the ongoing struggle for liberation, and explores the meaning of international solidarity.   In this latest collection, Kanazi expands his focus outside the sphere of Palestine and presents pieces examining racism in America, police brutality, US militarism at home and wars abroad, conflict voyeurism, Islamophobia, and a range of other issues.   “His rhymes and rhythms, filled with sharp wit, irony and deep empathy, are a great joy to read even as they tackle some of the most urgent political struggles of our day.” —Ali Abunimah, author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine

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  Tragical History of Doctor...

  Christopher Marlowe

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  The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play. "No Elizabethan play outside the Shakespeare canon has raised more controversy than Doctor Faustus. There is no agreement concerning the nature of the text and the date of composition... and the centrality of the Faust legend in the history of the Western world precludes any definitive agreement on the interpretation of the play. This recording uses the 1616 quarto, published by John Wright, which contains significant alterations from and additions to the quarto of 1604. The text of the first quarto was used for a previous Librivox recording. (Summary by Wikidpedia and Algy Pug) 
   
  CastChorus: Noel BadrianFaustus: David GoldfarbMephistophilis: Adam WhybrayWagner/Lucifer: Chuck WilliamsonValdes: Kevin JohnsonCornelius/Bruno/Vintner/Martino: WupperhippoGood Angel: April GonzalesEvil Angel/Sloth: Caprisha PageClown/Covetousness/Robin/Emperor Charles V: Alan MapstoneFirst Scholar/Lechery/Hostess: Lauren BurwellSecond Scholar/First Soldier: Tiffany Halla ColonnaThird Scholar/Dick: Elizabeth KlettBeelzebub: Miss AvaricePride/Archbishop of Rheims/Second Soldier/Servant/Old Man/Narrator: Algy PugEnvy: KristingjWrath: Rhonda FedermanGluttony/Raymond/Duke of Saxony: Charlotte DuckettPope: Martin GeesonCardinal of France: ReadalotFriar: Liberty StumpFrederick: Anna SimonBenvolio: Cliff ThompsonHorse courser/Carter: Phil BensonDuke of Vanholt/Cardinal of Padua: John TrevithickDuchess of Vanholt: DuanAudio edited by Algy Pug

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