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  Thrice Toss Those Oaken Ashes in...

  Thomas Campion

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Thrice Toss Those Oaken Ashes in the Air by Thomas Campion. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 10, 2013.Thomas Campion was an English composer, poet, and physician. He wrote over a hundred lute songs; masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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  Ghostly Poetry - Poetry to send...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor...

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  A collection of spine tingling poetry by the masters of the genre including Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lord Byron.

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  The Last Witch (NHB Modern Plays)

  Rona Munro

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  A play about the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland, The Last Witch explores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart.
  Dornoch, northern Scotland, 1727. In the claustrophobic heat of summer, a woman's apparent ability to manipulate the power of land and sea stirs suspicion. Janet Horne can cure beasts, call the wind and charm fish out of the sea. Or can she? Her refusal to deny the charge of witchcraft puts her in dangerous opposition to the new sheriff. Her defiance threatens not only her own life but that of her daughter...
  Rona Munro's play The Last Witch is based on the historical account of Janet Horne, the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland.
  The play was commissioned by Edinburgh International Festival and co-produced by the Festival and the Traverse Theatre Company. It opened at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2009.
  'Thrilling... seethes with poetry and emotion and is entirely gripping' - Guardian
  'A powerful, poetic and unsettling supernatural thriller' - Scotsman

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  Beowulf: A New Translation

  Maria Dahvana Headley

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  "Narrator JD Jackson addresses his listener as "bro" in this decidedly contemporary retelling of the classic saga...His brilliant performance captures all the artistry, wit, and immediacy of this fresh translation, and breathes new life into what for most has been a literary fossil." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner      A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere WifeNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf—and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world—there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine, justice is rarely served, and dragons live among us.A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history—Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment, powerful men seeking to become more powerful, and one woman seeking justice for her child, but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation.   A Macmillan Audio production from MCD x FSG Originals  "Brash and belligerent, lunatic and invigorating, with passages of  sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities and social-media shorthand." --Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker"The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale."--Barbara VanDenburgh, USA Today

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  Eunoia - The Upgraded Edition

  Christian Bock

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  Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (2002)
   
  Stunning and masterful in its execution, Eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram.
   
  The word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (l’Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), a French writers’ group interested in experimenting with different forms of literary constraint, Eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapteris a univocal lipogram – the first chapter has A as its only vowel, the second chapter E, etc. Each vowel takes on a distinct personality: the I is egotistical and romantic, the O jocular and obscene, the E elegiac and epic (including a retelling of the Iliad!).
   
  Stunning in its implications and masterful in its execution, Eunoia has developed a cult following, garnering extensive praise and winning the Griffin Poetry Prize. The original edition was never released in the U.S., but it has already been a bestseller in Canada and the U.K. (published by Canongate Books), where it was listed as one of the Times’ top ten books of 2008.
   
  This new edition features several new but related poems by Christian Bok and an expanded afterword.
   
  'Eunoia is a novel that will drive everybody sane.' —Samuel Delany
   
  'Eunoia takes the lipogram and rendersit obsolete.' —Kenneth Goldsmith
   
  'A marvellous, musical texture of rhymes and echoes.' —Harry Mathews
   
  'An exemplary monument for 21st century poetry.' —Charles Bernstein
   
  'Bök's dazzling word games are the literary sensation of the year.' —The Times
   
  'A resounding success ... brilliant.' —The Guardian
   
  'Brilliant ... beautiful and strange.' —Today Programme, BBC Radio 4
   
  'Impressive.' —Sunday Telegraph
   
  'No mere Christmas stocking filler for Countdown fans. Rather, it's an ingenious little novel ... playful and irreverent ... charming.' —Metro

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  Neil Simon's Eugene Trilogy

  Neil Simon

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  Neil Simon’s acclaimed Eugene Trilogy:Brighton Beach MemoirsIn Neil Simon’s first installment of his darkly funny semiautobiographical Eugene Trilogy, we meet his family in 1930’s Brooklyn. Performed by: Max Casella, Peter Michael Goetz, Valerie Harper, Alexana Lambros, Anna Sophie Loewenberg, JonathanSilverman and Joyce Van Patten.Biloxi BluesThe second hilarious installment of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy follows a naïve Eugene Jerome through boot camp. Performed by: Justine Bateman, Rob Benedict, Joshua Biton, John Cabrera, Matthew Patrick Davis, Steve Rankin, Josh Radnor, Russell Soder and Darby StanchfieldBroadway BoundIn the final installment of Neil Simon’s trilogy, Eugene and his brother Stanley pair up to break into the world of comedy writing. Performed by: Caroline Aaron, Dan Castellaneta, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, James Gleason, Alan Mandell, Jonathan Silverman, JoBeth Williams and Scott Wolf.

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