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  Zen Poetry - Let the Spring...

  Lucien Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto

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  From the editors of Zen Poems of China and Japan comes the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English.   This collaboration between a Japanese scholar and an American poet has rendered translations both precise and sublime, and their selections, which span fifteen hundred years—from the early T’ang dynasty to the present day—include many poems that have never before been translated into English. Stryk and Ikemoto offer us Zen poetry in all its diversity: Chinese poems of enlightenment and death, poems of the Japanese masters, many haiku—the quintessential Zen art—and an impressive selection of poems by Shinkichi Takahashi, Japan’s greatest contemporary Zen poet. With Zen Poetry, Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto have graced us with a compellingly beautiful collection, which in their translations is pure literary pleasure, illuminating the world vision to which these poems give permanent expression.

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  Narrative Verse Volume 2

  Matthew Arnold, Lord Byron,...

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  NARRATIVE VERSE – Volume 2  Poetry can capture the imagination in a few short lines but Narrative Verse or Poetry takes the form of telling a story whether it be simple or complex in a longer form.  Among the most ancient forms of poetry it has widespread roots through almost every culture. In Volume 2 we bring you the classics of Sohrab & Rustum - Matthew Arnold, The Prisoner Of Chillon - Lord Byron and Faithless Sally Brown - Thomas Hood.   They are read for you by the renowned actors Sean Barrett and David Shaw-Parker.

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  A Going Concern (NHB Modern Plays)

  Stephen Jeffreys

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  A play about a washed-up family business, from the author of The Libertine.
  1966. The technological revolution has not yet reached Chapel & Sons, an ailing family business making billiard tables. In the dilapidated workshop, three generations conspire against each other for control of the firm.
  Stephen Jeffreys' play A Going Concern is at once a lament for the passing of an industrial age, a retelling of the classic mythical struggle between fathers and sons and a thoroughly entertaining story.
  It was first performed at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 1993.
  'Crackles with snappy tensions... A real find' - Daily Mail
  'Blisteringly tough and funny' - Sunday Times

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  The Poetry of World War One

  Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy,...

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  In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse. These poems - considered the greatest written during WWI and some of the greatest poetry of the twentieth century - show the horror of war but also shine a light on the strength of human courage, bravery, and virtue. 
   
  The full list of poets included in this collection are: Thomas Hardy; Isaac Rosenberg; Rupert Brooke; Katharine Tynan; Jessie Pope; Charles Hamilton Sorley; Laurence Binyon; Wallace Stevens; May Wedderburn Cannan; Vera Mary Brittain; May Sinclair; Robert Nichol; John McCrae; Siegfried Sassoon; Edward Thomas; Alan Seeger; Edith Wharton; Edward Thomas; Sara Teasdale; Julian Grenfell; WB Yeats; Margaret Postgate Cole; Rudyard Kipling; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson; Arthur Graeme West; Henry Newbolt; Robert W. Service; Florence Ripley Mastin; Anna Gordon Keown; Wilfred Owen; Robert Graves; Francis Ledwidge; Ivor Gurney; Mary Borden; Gertrude Stein; Carl Sandburg; Robert Nichols; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; John Peale Bishop; Charlotte Mew; Ezra Pound; Carl Sandburg; Robert Frost; Edgell Rickword; Hervey Allen; G. K. Chesterton; Edmund Blunden; A. E. Housman; Ernest Hemingway; Jessie St. John.

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  More Bab Ballads

  W.S. Gilbert

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  This is a subset of the second collection of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” – light verses poking fun at the life and people of his time in Gilbert’s unique “topsy-turvey” style. The epitaph on his memorial on the Victoria Embankment in London is “HIS FOE WAS FOLLY AND HIS WEAPON WIT”, an epitaph amply exemplified in these verses. (Summary by Graham Redman)

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  Anything is Possible if You...

  Cordelia O'Neill

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  Alex and Rupert aren't a conventional match, but a caffeinated meeting on the Underground ignites a spark. Skip forward to them fighting over baby names, nursery colours and ways to save money. All the signs of a normal family in waiting.
  Then Alex goes into labour, their baby is born still – and their world implodes. What follows is a window into how a couple find the strength to move forward, the will to stay together, and the determination to keep alive the memory of their child.
  Anything is Possible if You Think About It Hard Enough takes us to the depths of grief to find hope, and to the edge of insanity to find reason. There is humour, too, in the most unexpected places.
  
  Cordelia O'Neill's play was first presented by Small Things Theatre at Southwark Playhouse, London, in September 2021.

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