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  The Top 10 Poets – Born in New...

  Philip Freneau, Emma Lazarus,...

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
  In this volume we bring together those poets who began life in New York City.  This thriving, fast-paced and energetic city that is a creative hub for some of the most talented poets of the ages.

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  Kentucky Wonder

  Ronald Franklin Saia

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  Kentucky Wonder is a compilation of 70 poems written and read by Ronald Franklin Saia about love, family experiences, and the wonders of God. Some poems will bring tears, some poems will make you laugh, and some will draw you closer to our Lord. Most of all, this audio-book will bring you joy! 
  Ronald Franklin Saia was born a grandson to an Italian from Sutera, Sicily. Growing up in rural Kentucky gave Ronald a deep feeling in his soul for the outdoors. He hunted, trapped, rode his buckskin mare Old Beauty, slept under the stars, and cooked super over an open camp fire. He is a real American partriot. While Ronald worked his way through college, he lived at home with his precious mother, Mary, and father, Victor. What a blessing it was for God to have chosen them for his parents. 
  For a time, he worked in Venezuela where he met his wife, Barb. He has traveled in South and Central America, and Europe. Ronald's inspirational poetry is straight from his heart and represents a true appreciation for creation and God's works along with life's experiences and personal observations. 
  ©2014 Roanld Franklin Saia (P)2014 Ronald Franklin Saia

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  The Maladies (NHB Modern Plays)

  Carmen Nasr

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  1508. France. A woman dances compulsively – and soon hundreds join her.
  1962. Tanzania. A schoolgirl's laughing fit spreads from village to village.
  2011. USA. Cheerleaders are overcome by uncontrollable twitching.
  2023. London. A group of women suddenly lose the ability to speak – and no one can figure out why. The team at an all-female podcast decide to investigate and end up on a journey of discovery, uncovering more than they bargained for.
  The Maladies by Carmen Nasr is a powerful, provocative play, offering rich material for schools, colleges and youth theatres, particularly those looking for leading roles for young women. It was devised with the Almeida Young Company, directed by Yasmin Hafesji, and first performed at The Yard Theatre, London, in April 2022.

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  A Sand Book

  Ariana Reines

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  A Sand Book is a poetry collection in twelve parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness in our strange and desperate times. From Hurricane Sandy to the murder of Sandra Bland to the massacre at Sandy Hook, from the sand in the gizzards of birds to the desertified mountains of Haiti, from Attar's "Conference of the Birds" to Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls" to Twitter, A Sand Book is about change and quantification, the relationship between catastrophe and cultural transmission. It moves among houses of worship and grocery stores, flitters between geological upheaval and the weird weather of the Internet. In her long-awaited follow-up to Mercury, Reines has written her most ambitious work to date, but also her most visceral and satisfying.

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  Katherine Mansfield - Chapter &...

  Katherine Mansfield

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - Katherine Mansfield - An Introduction 
  2 - Bliss by Katharine Mansfield 
  3 - Sorrowing Love by Katherine Mansfield 
  4 - Loneliness by Katherine Mansfield 
  5 - A Little Boy's Dream by Katherine Mansfield 
  6 - Fairy Tale by Katherine Mansfield 
  7 - The Candle by Katherine Mansfield 
  8 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child by Katherine Mansfield 
  9 - The Wounded Bird by Katherine Mansfield 
  10 - Covering Wings by Katherine Mansfield 
  11 - In the Rangitaki Valley by Katherine Mansfield 
  12 - The Town Between the Hills by Katherine Mansfield 
  13 - Deaf House Agent by Katherine Mansfield 
  14 - Camomile Tea by Katherine Mansfield 
  15 - The Arabian Shawl by Katherine Mansfield 
  16 - The Quarrel by Katherine Mansfield 
  17 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - Love - 12...

  William Shakespeare, William...

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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 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic.  Love - An Introduction 
  2 - Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare 
  3 - He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats 
  4 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  5 - Bright Star by John Keats 
  6 - Oh Lovers by Jalaluddin Rumi 
  7 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  8 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller 
  9 - A Red Red Rose by Robert Burns 
  10 - She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron 
  11 - The Good Morrow by John Donne 
  12 - The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe 
  13 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear

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