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  Chapters by Tim Key

  Tim Key

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  The audiobook of Tim Key's least ambitious project to date. A slim book of the crap he’s been churning out over the past eighteen months.  
  Poems about men getting stuck in webs, poems about the ancient city of Canterbury, poems about canoodling with a rose.  
  A prolific sod, he’s selected ninety of his trademark vignettes and packed them off to Emily Juniper for her to fling onto pages and shape into a book.  
  Discussions ensued about what, if anything, the point of it all was, and a healthy debate as to whether it should be broken up into chapters and, if so, why. All of these discussions are documented in the leftover space around the poems. The result is a splurge of words which very occasionally shine a light on modern times.  
  It is the third book Tim and Emily have generated together. 
  Chapters by Tim Key. 
  Read by Tim Key with Katy Wix as Emily Juniper. 
  Produced, recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell. 
  Executive producer is Ben Williams.  
  Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound. 
  Original book published by Utter & Press, copyright Tim Key, 2023. 
  This recording is copyrighted by Plosive Limited, 2023.

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Emma Lazarus, Ann Plato,...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - America - An Introduction 
  2 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  3 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato 
  4 - America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates 
  5 - Bury Me In a Free Land by Frances E W Harper 
  6 - A Nation's Strength by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  7 - To America by James Weldon Johnson 
  8 - The Crowd at the Ball Game by William Carlos Williams 
  9 - Harlem by Langston Hughes 
  10 - Wild Peaches by Elinor Wylie 
  11 - The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  13 - I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman

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  Dress Rehearsals

  Madison Godfrey

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  A memoir made of poetry, Dress Rehearsals documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binary body. 
  Dress Rehearsals is a raw and beautiful exploration of what it means to be feminine. Beginning with teenage yearning, these poems both celebrate and grieve Madison's sexual awakening as they transition into the glittering femme fatale. 
  Navigating first love, menstruation, chronic illness, sex and patriarchal power dynamics, Dress Rehearsals is a coming-of-age story that has never been told - a decade of performing womanhood in an elaborate and shifting costume.  
  This collection is a unique and transformative experience and, with its careful balance of dark humour and warmth, a queer celebration of gender.

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  Perfection Comes at a Price

  Ulla Beattie

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  Eric has a miserable childhood in a violent, drunken family in a tough London housing estate. He compensates by looking for perfection. For him, this means worldly success in a diplomatic career as far away from his childhood as possible. His single-minded ambition comes at a price. It makes him leave his childhood sweetheart Katie behind, since he knows that she can’t keep up with him. Their ways part. Eric marries an upper-class woman and becomes an Ambassador. However, Katie and he never quite lose touch. After his wife’s death Eric and Katie come together again. There is action and pace, fun and sadness, a huge variety of life experiences and a sense of providence and redemption.

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  Five Years with the White Man

  Eloka Obi, Saul Boyer

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  A startling account of satirist ABC Merriman-Labor – the greatest Black Briton ever to have been forgotten – whose dreams of becoming the greatest writer of his generation lead him on a defiant journey from Sierra Leone to Edwardian London.
  Eloka Obi and Saul Boyer's play Five Years with the White Man features a kaleidoscope of characters and was premiered at VAULT Festival, London, in 2023.

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Katherine Chapman Tillman, Akiko...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Hair - An Introduction 
  2 - When Mandy Combs Her Head by Katherine Chapman Tillman 
  3 - Black Hair by Akiko Yosano 
  4 - Grey Hairs by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva 
  5 - A Study In Gray by Ambrose Bierce 
  6 - Ophelia by Elinor Wylie 
  7 - Sonnet 68 - Thus is His Cheek the Map of Days Outworn by William Shakespeare 
  8 - To A Lady Who Presented to the Author....  by Lord Byron 
  9 - Your Strange Hair by Renee Vivien 
  10 - A Visit to the Asylum by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  11 - The Barber by John Gray 
  12 - The Hairy Dog by Herbert Asquith 
  13 - The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes

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