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  Surrender

  Sophie Swithinbank

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  Mother is in prison. Daughter has come to visit. Closely watched by security, they have one hour to undo the damage of eleven years of separation.
  Surrender explores what it takes to survive in a punishing and dysfunctional penal system when your child is on the outside.
  A collaboration between writer Sophie Swithinbank and director/performer Phoebe Ladenburg, the play opened at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2024, before playing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Summerhall Lustrum Award.

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  Born in England – Exploring...

  Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series, we take a look at poetry through the prism of individual regions of England, or sometimes more quaintly known as ‘Albion’, or ‘Blighty’, through the centuries of its gloried history. 
   
  England, despite its perception of reserve and under-statement has, in reality, strode the global stage at various time in many things, both good and bad, from Empire to long distance running. Here our focus in on its literature.  Famed for its fiction and dramas, it is equally admired for its plethora of gifted poets and the dazzling verse which has added so much to its artistic legacy.  These classic poets are wonders of their age and of their art.  Genius is written in their names. 
   
  In this volume we explore the poets of the South-East.  Although only a small fragment of the island it is layer-rich in gentle natural landscapes and poetic beauty that hold in thrall all who take time to absorb the wonder of their words.  Our poets include Matthew Arnold, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Robert Seymour Bridges and many others.

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  Fast Talking PI & Other Poems

  Selina Tusitala Marsh

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  A selection of Selina Tusitala Marsh' s most beloved poems, set to music and performed by the poet herself.
  ' She blows in like a song carried on a powerful current: a wild-haired woman, larger than life, carrying a tall carved stick. She loses things in that hair, she says; finds pens in there days after they went missing.'
  — from ' Never Piss Off a Poet' , The Guardian
  Selina Tusitala Marsh is a celebrated poet and performer from Aotearoa New Zealand. Professor and poet laureate, a Pasifika woman who has performed for queens and presidents, Selina says ' poetry is a way to tell our stories and make the invisible visible.'
  This audiobook features the poet performing thirty-six of her most powerful poems, both occasional pieces and selections from the collections Fast Talking PI, Dark Sparring and Tightrope. In ' Guys like Gaugin' and ' Kickboxing Cancer' , ' Airport Road to Apia' and ' Fast Talking PI' , and many more, Selina brings whole new worlds to life.
  All poems written and performed by Selina Tusitala Marsh; all music composed, produced and engineered by Tim Page.

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  The Poetry of Robert Southey -...

  Robert Southey

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  Robert Southey was born on the 12th of August 1774 in Bristol. A poet of the Romantic school and one of the "Lake Poets". 
  Although his fame has been eclipsed by that of his friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey's verse was highly influential and he wrote movingly against the horrors and injustice of the slave trade.  Among his other classics are Inchcape Rock as well as a number of plays including Wat Tyler. 
  He was great friends with Coleridge, indeed in 1795, in a plan they soon abandoned, they thought to found a utopian commune-like society, called Pantisocracy, in the wilds of Pennsylvania. 
  However, that same year, the two friends married sisters Sarah and Edith Fricker. Southey's marriage was successful but Coleridge's was not. In 1810 he abandoned his wife and three children to Southey's care in the Lake District.  Although his income was small and those dependent upon him growing in number he continued to write and burnish his reputation with a wider public. 
  In 1813 on the refusal of Walter Scott he was offered by George II the post of Poet Laureate, a post Southey accepted and kept till his death 30 years later. 
  Southey was also a prolific letter writer, literary scholar, essay writer, historian and biographer. His biographies included those of John Bunyan, John Wesley, William Cowper, Oliver Cromwell and Horatio Nelson. 
  He was a renowned scholar of Portuguese and Spanish literature and history, and translated works from those two languages into English and wrote a History of Brazil (part of his planned but un-completed History of Portugal) and a History of the Peninsular War. 
  Perhaps his most enduring contribution is the children's classic The Story of the Three Bears, the original Goldilocks story, first published in Southey's prose collection The Doctor. 
  In 1838, Edith died and Southey married Caroline Anne Bowles, also a poet, on 4 June 1839. 
  Robert Southey died on the 21st of March, 1843 and is buried in Crosthwaite Church in Keswick. 
  This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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  Stories From The Faerie Queene

  Edmund Spenser

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  "Stories From The Faerie Queene" is a retelling or abridged version of Edmund Spenser's epic poem "The Faerie Queene," which is a richly imaginative allegorical work dedicated to celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. The poem, originally published in the late 16th century, weaves tales of knights, dragons, maidens, and quests to represent virtues and human struggles. The stories within are adaptations of Spenser's intricate stanzas into prose or shorter narratives that make the text more accessible while maintaining its magical and moral complexity.

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  Don't Walk Alone

  G. G.M.Hague

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  Look inside the mind of a psychopathic killer - the worst kind. James never believes he is anything but normal. A man who falls in love with beautiful young women, just like everyone else. He's the perfect lover, a successful professional, wealthy, and living his dream. He doesn't care that the women he loves disappear, never to be seen again. He's careful to hide all traces and cover his tracks. No one would ever suspect James lives another life behind his kindly, benevolent persona.Then things start to slowly unravel when James takes things too far because the true love of his life is suddenly within reach. His intricate web of deceit is in danger of unravelling.But James hasn't survived this long in the shadows without being clever and resourceful. He can still have everything he wants and never reveal the truth.Don't Walk Alone will make think twice about who to trust, who to believe, and who to allow through your door.

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