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  Second Person Narrative (NHB...

  Jemma Kennedy

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  You're born a girl. You grow up. You grow old. You die. But along the way can you really forge your own identity? Can you actually choose your own destiny? And would you do anything differently if you could do it all over again?
  Second Person Narrative by Jemma Kennedy is part of Platform, a new initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books.
  Aimed at addressing gender imbalance and inequality in theatre, Platform comprises big-cast plays with predominantly or all-female casts, written specifically for performance by school, college and youth-theatre groups.
  'Drama is an important tool for building confidence and empowering young people. Platform will give girls opportunity to access these benefits as much as their male counterparts.' - Moira Buffini

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  Three Stories & Ten Poems

  Ernest Hemingway

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  One of Ernest Hemingway’s first published works, these are short stories and poems about life, love, loss and heartache. 
  The three stories include Up In Michigan, Out Of Season and My Old Man. 
  The ten poems included in this book are:MitraigliatriceOklahomaOily WeatherRooseveltCaptivesChamps d’HonneurRiparto d’AssaltoMontparnasseAlong With YouthChapter Heading 
  Originally published by Ernest Hemingway in 1923. 

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  The Prophet (Hero Classics)

  Kahlil Gibran

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  Part of the Hero Classics series 
  “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.” 
  This is the story of the prophet Al-Mustafa and his conversations with various acquaintances, as he returns home after a long absence.  Told in 26 prose poetry fables written in English, the book covers areas such as love, passion, pain, freedom and friendship.  The Prophet has been translated into over 100 different languages, making it one of the most translated books in history. 
  The Hero Classics series:MeditationsThe ProphetA Room of One’s OwnIncidents in the Life of a Slave GirlThe Art of WarThe Life of Charlotte BronteThe RepublicThe PrinceNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveUtopia

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  The Poetry of Isaac Rosenberg

  Isaac Rosenberg

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  Isaac Rosenberg was born on 25th November 1890 in Bristol.  As a child his family moved to the squalid streets of London’s Jewish Ghetto, and took any number of menial jobs to survive. 
  Isaac only attended school briefly at age 14. He began work as an engraver’s apprentice and to work in his spare time on his painting.  These talents in painting and other visual arts allowed him to go to a funded place at the Slade School of Art. 
  His early poetry was closely associated with the Romantic movement, especially the influences of Keats and Shelley. 
  His volume of poems ‘Youth’ was published in 1915 and then he enlisted to fight in the Great War. 
  He fought until 1918 and his death in the battle of Arras on 1st April  at the age of 28. 
  Within those few short years he found his own distinctive and clear voice. He is mainly remembered as a War Poet and on the horrific canvas that was to be The First World War he expressed himself as few others could.  ‘August 1914’ like many of his works is short but distilled to an essence with a clear and unquenchable voice. 
  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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  Lexical Lockdown - poems about...

  Melanie Haagman

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  It’s the year of 2020
  Which no one will forget,
  When we fought a lethal virus
  That posed a deadly threat.
  Mel rhymes her way through lockdown,
  It enables her to cope,
  And in her witty verses
  Spreads positivity and hope,

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  Then the War - And Selected...

  Caryl Phillips

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  "In much of the best contemporary poetry, beauty of thought is at least as important as beauty of language. Carl Phillips, here reading his own Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, has an ample supply of both, but it is the thinking behind each poem that makes it possible for the language to have power." - AudioFileWINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYA new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips's Then the WarI’m a song, changing. I’m a light rain falling through a vast darkness toward a different darkness.Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an “ongoing quest”; Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the farther we go, the more difficult it is to remember why or where we started. Then the War includes a generous selection of Phillips’s work from the previous thirteen years, as well as his recent lyric prose memoir, “Among the Trees,” and his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures.Ultimately, Phillips refuses pessimism, arguing for tenderness and human connection as profound forces for revolution and conjuring a spell against indifference and the easy escapes of nostalgia. Then the War is luminous testimony to the power of self-reckoning and to Carl Phillips as an ever-changing, necessary voice in contemporary poetry.

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