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  This Must Be the Place (NHB...

  Brad Birch, Kenny Emson

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  This Must Be the Place is a play comprising two short ballads about migration, missed connections, and life on the edge of respectability.
  Two friends, fugitives from their problems, try and start again in the big smoke but find themselves waiting on the margins still. A man in the midst of crisis tries for a clean break from technology, connectivity and the pressures of city life.
  Brad Birch and Kenny Emson's This Must Be the Place was first performed at Latitude Festival in July 2016, before transferring to the 2017 VAULT Festival, London, where it was named Show of the Year.
  'A very modern tale of very modern detachment, written with humour and vigour... observant, angry, compelling, oh, and it's funny too. Very funny.' - LondonTheatre1
  'A dynamic piece of new writing… freshly biting and crisply unsentimental' - Exeunt Magazine

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  Why I Write Poetry - Essays on...

  Ian Humphreys

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  What motivates poets in the 21st century? How do they find their voice? What themes and subject matters inspire them? How do they cope with set-backs and deal with success? What keeps them writing? Why I Write Poetry, edited by Ian Humphreys, combines lively and thought-provoking essays, along with individual writing prompts to help you create your own new poetry.
  In this book, twenty-five contemporary poets reflect with insight, wit and wisdom on the writing life. Each offers their distinctive take on what inspires and spurs them on to write poetry. The essays shine a light on everything from performance, dialect, the body and paying attention, to bearing witness, finding your wings and joining the journey of poetry, and encompass the practical, personal, and political. Within these pages, you'll discover how a poet's background and values can fundamentally shape and inform their work. New voices sit alongside poets with many collections under their belts and you'll find encouragement, creative provocations, advice and, above all, reasons to write. Read on, learn and enjoy.
  With essays by: Romalyn Ante, Khairani Barokka, Hafsah Aneela Bashir, Leo Boix, Vahni Capildeo, Mary Jean Chan, Jo Clement, Sarah Corbett, Jane Commane, Rishi Dastidar, Jonathan Edwards, Rosie Garland, W. N. Herbert, Ian Humphreys, Keith Jarrett, Zaffar Kunial, Rachel Mann, Andrew McMillan, Kim Moore, Pascale Petit, Jacqueline Saphra, Clare Shaw, Daniel Sluman, Jean Sprackland, and Jennifer Wong.

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  My Best Poems Complete Collection

  Pia Horan-Gross

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  My Best Poems, Complete Collection contains prose poetry and covers a lifetime of poetry writing, sorted in alphabetical order of titles, with dates of creation of original poems featured, though reviewed and professionally edited at a later date. It comprises experienced reflections on the beauty of nature, the painful, at times fleeting joy of relationships and their deeply spiritual significance, and the wonder and discovery of the spiritual realm. The book contains 136 poems, divided into three parts; Part 1, Celebrating Nature, describes mainly Australian scenes and how they reflect what is going on in the author's inner world. Part 2, The Challenge of Relationships, covers a multitude of relational challenges, both experienced and observed, and the various life-stages and author's struggle to come to grips with those.Part 3, Spirituality. Finding the way out of the maze describes the author's search for meaning, relevance and truth.  She describes her attempt in various life situations, philosophical and religious teachings and trying to make sense in the midst of it all.The audiobook is meant for reflection and meditation and the soothing voice of Sallybeth beautifully enhances the author's intention for her listeners.

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  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - A...

  Washington Irving

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  Ichabod Crane, a lanky, lean, superstitious school master, arrives to teach the children of Sleepy Hollow. As he vies for the attention of the lovely Katrina Van Tassel, his rival for her attention is the town rowdy, Brom Bones. Brom tries to scare Ichabod away with local superstitions and ghost tales. Soon enough the ill-fated schoolmaster encounters a terrifying legend come to life-The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. 
   
  Meticulously adapted to stay true to the mood and flavor of the book Washington Irving is most famous for, this Colonial Radio presentation won the Charles Ogle Award for the Best Fantasy Production of 2005.

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  Beauty Making

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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  Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved north of Madison. She started writing poetry at a very early age, and was well known as a poet in her own state by the time she graduated from high school.Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone". Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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  Call and Response

  Rachel Spence

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  Call and Response is a sequence of sonnets from the perspective of a daughter, addressed to her mother during her mother's illness. Hard-edged yet tender, the poems explore the darker side of familial bonds and the strange ways suffering can heal old wounds.

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