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  Mingle

  Caleb Parkin

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  Caleb Parkin's dark and mischievous second poetry collection Mingle stirs up the toxicities between landscapes, ecosystems and bodies, in poems bubbling over with hyper-wealth and haunted by tarnished ideals. Through creatures, compounds and chemicals, the poems probe what makes up our world's matter, and how we use it for good or ill. From gold to hydrocarbons, radioactive gardening to viral memes, the resulting mixture is a potent poetic cocktail…
  Here, intimate connections and grand narratives are unsettled; we are implicated in prickly histories and weird futures and the natural world reminds us of its unruliness – as well as our own. Reflections warp in noxious ponds and voices distort and echo in uncanny landscapes. At times hyperreal and surreal, adventurous and technicolour, Mingle fizzes with the possibilities of queered language and altered states of poetic form.

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  The Universe in Verse - 15...

  Maria Popova

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  In this audiobook Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry. Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply." In 15 short essays on subjects ranging from the mystery of dark matter and the infinity of pi to the resilience of trees and the intelligence of octopuses, Popova tells the stories of scientific searching and discovery. These stories are interwoven with details from the very real and human lives of scientists—many of them women, many underrecognized—and poets inspired by the same questions and the beauty they reveal. Each essay is paired with a poem reflecting its subject by poets ranging from Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden, and Edna St. Vincent Millay to Maya Angelou, Diane Ackerman, and Tracy K. Smith. Together, they wake us to a "reality aglow with wonder."

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  The Stefan Zweig Collection –...

  Stefan Zweig

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  Volume 5 gathers nine Stefan Zweig stories spanning two decades, from early experiments through mature work. These represent his "minor key"—variations on characteristic themes without the concentrated intensity of masterpieces like "Letter from an Unknown Woman" or "Chess Story." Yet several contain genuine psychological insight and passages where Zweig's gifts shine. 
  "Story at Twilight" — Brief encounter reveals hidden dimensions of a seemingly ordinary marriage. 
  "The Governess" — Class and power through a young woman vulnerable to exploitation. Sharp observation of ambiguous social status. 
  "Summer Novelette" — A brief intense experience disrupts a settled life. 
  "Forgotten Dreams" — Suppressed experiences resurface, upending comfortable routines. 
  "The Star Above the Forest" — Symbolic experiment, less successful than his psychological realism. 
  "The Compulsion" — Desire transforming into obsession, rationalization enabling self-destruction. 
  "The Legend of the Third Dove" — Religious allegory treated psychologically, examining how narrative structures understanding of suffering. 
  "The Love of Erika Ewald" — A young woman's emotional development, showcasing Zweig's sympathy for female inner lives. 
  "The Destruction of a Heart" — Psychological breakdown rendered with forensic precision. Pure Zweig. 
  Recurring patterns: bourgeois protagonists concealing inner tumult; women with depths men fail to recognize; brief encounters precipitating revelation; the past refusing burial. 
  For readers who know the famous novellas, this collection reveals the European master discovering his voice—sometimes stumbling, often succeeding, always working with passion, obsession, and revelation.

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  Dear Brutus

  J. M. Barrie

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  At a house in the country 8 guests are invited to enter a magical wood to see what might have happened had they made a different choice in life.  Even though they are warned away from the wood, they take a chance and enter.  The title comes from Shakespeare: "The fault lies in our selves, dear Brutus, not in our stars...," and summarizes the theme of this play: given a second chance, will people still make the same mistakes? (summary by David O)Mr. Dearth: azureblueMrs. Alice Dearth: Beth ThomasMr. Purdie: David OlsonMrs. Mabel Purdie: MaryankaMr. Coade: ToddHWMrs. Coade: Bev J StevensLob: Natalie PaulaMatey: balaJoanna Trout: Libby GohnLady Caroline Laney: Sarah TerryMargaret: TriciaGNarrated by Shakira SearleAudio edited by David Olson

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  Chattering at School: Nature...

  Edward Forde Hickey

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  "Chattering at School" is a series of animal poems that invites the reader to learn and marvel at all the wonders of the natural world. The poems include fun narratives on the surface, while containing learning and teaching moments as the poems unfold. The book has lovely illustrations and is full of moral lessons.The introduction to "Chattering at School:  Nature poems for children" explains that these poems were written by a schoolboy aged 11 to 18 (1951-58) during his annual summer holiday visits to his grandmother on her small farm in Ireland. She had been his carer and guardian from the time of the German Blitz of London where he was born, and lived with her until the war ended in 1945. He then returned to his unknown parents, who had been unable to visit him in Ireland from the UK during the war.Over 60 years later, the author of these poems - Edward Forde Hickey - discovered them (his own schoolboy attempts at writing poetry) lying in the attic and felt they were worth recording publicly.

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  Burnt Out

  Gary Mitchell

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  On the surface, Michael and Cheryl have it all: a posh new home in suburban Belfast, good jobs, 2.4 pets.
  But things take a sinister turn when, living opposite a bonfire site, they unwittingly become the targets of a hate campaign involving missing animals, graffiti and explosions…
  Gary Mitchell's play Burnt Out is a blackly comic psychological thriller exposing the darker side of suburban life. It was first performed in 2023 at the Lyric Theatre Belfast, as part of the Belfast International Arts Festival.
  Gary Mitchell is a British playwright based in Northern Ireland. His plays, many of them political thrillers about contemporary life in Belfast, have been widely performed, and he has been called 'Northern Ireland's greatest playwright' (Guardian).
  'His writing has the blazing conviction of lived experience combined with an unfashionable relish for strong plots. His best work has a stomach-churning intensity'Daily Telegraph

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