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  Behind the Web

  Fimalia McNoll

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  Tears, dropping, running like a river 
  Genuine attention needed 
  But how to wipe them with hands tied 
  Call for help, people will hear 
  Some might hear and turn a blind eye 
  Others might pretend they don't hear you cry 
  Yet a kind one must come running 
  If not running, to your aid, walking, scrambling

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  The IT

  Vivienne Franzmann

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  'It is really small. Whatever it is.
  But it's here.
  It's definitely here.'
  A teenage girl has something growing inside her. She doesn't know what it is, but she knows it's not a baby. It expands. It has claws. Eventually it takes over the entirety of her body.
  No one must know about it. She has to keep its presence, its possession of her, concealed. She pulls away from her friends. She refuses to speak, in case 'The IT' is heard. But she can't contain it forever. Sooner or later something's got to give...
  Presented in the style of a direct-address documentary, Vivienne Franzmann's The IT is a darkly comic state-of-the-nation play exploring adolescent mental health and the rage within.
  Written specifically for young people, the play formed part of the 2021 National Theatre Connections Festivals and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK. It was named Best Play for Young Audiences at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards 2023.
  The IT offers opportunities for a large, flexible cast of any size and mix of genders.

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  Romantic Healing Message

  Joe Ilunjo

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  Description 
  A Poetic Journey from Heartbreak to Wholeness 
  In the quiet aftermath of love, we are left with pieces. Romantic Healing Message is a hand to hold in the dark, a lyrical guide that gathers those pieces and reveals how to mend with gold. 
  Structured as a profound five-act journey—through the Awakening, the Break, the Void, the Healing, and finally, the Message—this collection is more than a book of poetry. It is a conversation with your own heart. Joe Ilunjo’s intimate and vulnerable verse explores the entire spectrum of love: the dizzying heights of discovery, the crushing weight of loss, the silent reflection of absence, and the radiant dawn of self-forgiveness. 
  For anyone who has loved, lost, and is learning to love again—starting with themselves—this book offers a powerful affirmation: your scars are not signs of damage, but proof of your resilience. Let these words be the gentle reminder that you were never meant to stay broken; you were meant to glow. 
  (Thank you for choosing my audiobook. If you have any questions, feedback, or if you’d like to request a digital or paperback copy of the book, please feel free to reach out to me at joenduga@gmail.com.)

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  Gitanjali

  Rabindranath Tagore

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  Brought to by Altrusian Grace Media and narrated by Matthew Schmitz. In addition to the normal narration, this version includes an "Ambient" version with peaceful meditative music. Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian & the only Indian to receive this honour. It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. The poems express devotion to God and love, and were influential in the West and widely translated. It features an introduction by poet W.B. Yeats.

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  The Real & Imagined History of...

  Tom Wright

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  Arriving from his East Midlands beginnings into a London thick with the grime of industrialisation, Joseph Merrick is an anomaly. In a city of factories that churn out uniformity, there is no place for someone like him.
  But Merrick and the city are evolving into something new. We follow him through the workhouse, the freak show and the hospital, as he searches for acceptance in a society that just wants to stare at him.
  Powerful, angry and surprising, Tom Wright's acclaimed play imagines an alternative history of the person who came to be known as 'the Elephant Man'. It restores Joseph Merrick to the centre of his own story: a man fighting for his right to be and to belong.
  The Real & Imagined History of the Elephant Man was first performed at Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre, before receiving its European premiere at Nottingham Playhouse in 2023, directed by Stephen Bailey, and supported by a grant from The Royal Theatrical Support Trust.

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  Bad Weather Mammals - Poems

  Ashley-Elizabeth Best

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  “The sick should be good. / It is a kind of undoing,” Ashley-Elizabeth Best writes in her second collection. Bad Weather Mammals navigates the devastations and joys of living in a disabled and traumatized body. By taking a backward glance, she traces how growing up under the maladaptive bureaucracy of social services with a single disabled mother and five younger siblings led her to a precarious future in which she is also disabled and living on social assistance. In poems that explore a variety of formal constraints, such as the suite “ODSP 1, 2, & 3,” which infuses government forms with lyric poetry, she suggests all the ways the medical and bureaucratic systems can dehumanize and traumatize our most vulnerable citizens. By digging deep into her own experiences, Best has archived the ways we fail each other in our most desperate times — while at the same time outlining how we can show up to revel in disabled joy and community. Bad Weather Mammals disassembles dominant narratives about how disabled individuals should be and reconceptualizes the embodied experiences that recenter us in our own narrative.

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