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  Angel (NHB Modern Plays)

  Henry Naylor

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  Syria, 2014. In the town of Kobane, there's a siege as fierce as Stalingrad. ISIS, having steam-rollered through Iraq, are expecting to take the town easily. But the citizens have found a heroine: a crackshot sniper with 100 kills to her name. And she appears indestructible. She's the legendary Angel of Kobane.
  Inspired by an extraordinary true story, Angel is part of Henry Naylor's Arabian Nightmares trilogy. It was first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016, where it won a Fringe First award.
  'simple but devastating... beautifully-structured... poses tough questions about our own complicity in the chaos' - Scotsman
  'riveting; war reportage in verbal form: a tale of witness from on the ground in Syria... I would see it again, in an instant' - The Times

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  Quick - Aphorisms

  George Murray

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  pbiThe highly anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular /iGlimpse/b/p
  piQuick/i is George Murray’s second collection of aphorisms — a form that straddles the lines between poetry, philosophy, humour, and prose. He describes these pieces as “poetic essences” — sometimes even as “poems, without all the poetry getting in the way.” Some are deep, some clever, some funny, some all three. The best, he says, should read like common-sense statements that have never actually been expressed./p
  pBuilt out of more than 450 short statements, iQuick/i is a series of thoughts and ruminations, any one of which could be an entire poem but instead has been compressed into a single profundity. Following his bestselling iGlimpse/i, Murray continues to explore a wide range of themes: from deep existential disquiet to the comforts of the meaning of belief; from what it means to be alive to how the world deals with hate, love, the sublime, and the ridiculous./p

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― Christmas Day...

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara...

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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.  Christmas Day - An Introduction  
  2 - Wondrous Sight For Men and Angels by Ann Griffiths 
  3 - Angels From the Realms of Glory by James Montgomery 
  4 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere 
  5 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton 
  6 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale 
  7 - A Carol. I by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland 
  8 - A Christmas Carol by Samual Taylor Coleridge 
  9 - Carol by Ben Jonson 
  10 - In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  11 - Go, Tell It on the Mountain by John Wesley Work Jr 
  12 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy 
  13 - We Three Kings of Orient Are by John Henry Hopkins Jnr

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  The Orchid Folios

  Mok Zining

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  “When you take an orchid out of its pot, you must first loosen the roots’ hold on the soil. Late last evening as I unravelled the braids of the shattered phalaenopsis, I saw how the ends were white and shrivelled from neglect. You have to do it gently—it’s like combing hair. I remember Mum’s fingers running through mine, and mine through hers, until the final months when all of it started to fall.” 
   
   
  A pot shatters. An arrangement falls apart. A florist finds herself amidst the scattered leaves of history. At once a poetry collection and a documentary novella, The Orchid Folios reimagines the orchid as a living, breathing document of history: a history that enmeshes the personal, colonial, linguistic, and biotechnological with the Vanda Miss Joaquim, the symbol of Singapore’s postcolonial hybridity. While the Orchid has shaped the fantastical narratives that govern our multiracial City in a Garden, it continues to shape-shift and bloom on its own terms, challenging us to imagine a decolonised Singapore. This is the organism at the heart of The Orchid Folios—by turns stark and unruly, documenting and challenging the narratives that are the roots of our national consciousness.

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  200 Haiku Love Poems

  Adrian Tanase

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  In this haiku love poems audiobook, I am delivering an underlying message that is not only about romance and romantic love, but even more, about the sacred feelings, perceptions and sophisticated moods that deeper love creates, when the partners are very much in love with each other.    The audiobook itself is created in such a way, that it sets an almost meditative mood, where you can dwell in its simple message and its wonderful verses. Written in the spiritually-inspired Rumi style, you can easily contemplate this out-of-this-world atmosphere, with the help of the smooth and airy musical chords which are present in the background, all-throughout the audiobook. The poems are inspiring and they can be a great moodsetter and always being able to rekindle the flame of love while clearly describing the joy of the heart, while being in love.     I invite you to sit back, relax and immerse in an hour and a half of beautiful haiku love poems.  Namaste

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  A Private Mythology - Poems

  May Sarton

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  Stunning reflections chronicling a journey both spiritual and physical by May Sarton, one of America’s most beloved poetsIn celebration of her fiftieth birthday, May Sarton embarked on a pilgrimage around the world. Traveling through Japan, India, and Greece, she captured her spiritual discoveries in this vivid collection of poetry. Arresting images and meditations on the differences between East and West are rendered with the exceptional clarity of an accomplished artist.Winner of the Emily Clark Balch Prize.

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