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  On Malice

  Ken Babstock

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  One of The Globe and Mail's Globe 100: Best Books of 2014
     
  The fairground screamed. The mountains and valley were gone. The fire was gone too. The hanging ‘because’
     
  was gone too. The men were away and my heart already dead and the fairground monkey dead in my mouth.
     
  A spectre haunts a derelictNSA surveillance station on a hill in Berlin. Our posthumous selves cry to us from the Cloud. We’ve internalized the panopticon, but it still feels good to buy.
     
  On Malice assembles evacuated forms, polysemy, undirected prayer and meta-chatter into a quartet of delirious song, a diorama of our new, totalized and ubiquitous armour. Channelling Spicer and Berryman, data-mining and inverting Hazlitt, Donne and Walter Benjamin’s son, these extended ghost-essays are lyric in their sonic and affective register but coldly methodological in their invented structures and repurposed illusions.
     
  'Ken Babstock is a wonderful and spirited poet, his work is full of musicality, syncopation, wit, and formal acuity, it's all good.' – Peter Gizzi
     
  'The flavor of this poetry is complex – it will have to be consumed in small amounts like a sipping tequila. It inebriates quickly. It imparts a convivial brilliance to life. Andit is not without its sinister edge.' – Ange Mlinko
     
  ‘[Babstock] has not only irrevocably altered our poetic climate but briskly evolved multiple new ecosystems in which his fellow songsters can work and flourish. In the wake of On Malice, I think we should prepare ourselves for a raft of source-text experiments and procedural treatises. Because as Canadian poets, it’s Babstock’s planet we’re walking on.’
     
  – Partisan

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  [squelch procedures]

  MLA Chernoff

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  In [SQUELCH PROCEDURES], MLA Chernoff contemplates the ways that trauma, poverty, and strict gender norms rupture the concept of childhood. The tension of multiple meanings in the word “squelch” acts as a guide to Chernoff’s unique voice, which uses language to swaddle intrusive thoughts and mimic defense mechanisms such as avoidance, depersonalization, and derealization. [SQUELCH PROCEDURES] is an ambitious attempt to show how healing and regression are often indistinguishable, while the past is always predisposed to happen more than once: first as tragedy, then as farce.

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  The Society for the Preservation...

  Anonymous

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  An anthology of classic erotic verse narrated by Dominic Crawford Collins.
  Theocritus was a Sicilian poet and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry. b. 300 BC d.260 BC
  Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, which is about personal life rather than classical heroes. His surviving works are still read widely and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art. b.84 BC d. 54 BC
  Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. b.43 BC
  Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. b.1591 d.1674
  John Donne was an English scholar, poet, soldier and secretary born into a catholic family, a remnant of the Catholic Revival, who reluctantly became a cleric in the Church of England. He was Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. b.1572 d.1631
  Thomas Carew was an English poet, among the 'Cavalier' group of Caroline poets. b.1595 d.1640
  John Wilmot was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court. The Restoration reacted against the "spiritual authoritarianism" of the Puritan era. Rochester embodied this new era, and he became as well known for his rakish lifestyle as his poetry, although the two were often interlinked. b.1647 d.1680

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Michael Drayton, Alfred Lord...

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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 - War - An Introduction 
  2 - The Ballad of Agincourt by Michael Drayton 
  3 - The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  4 - The Battle of Lexington by Sidney Lanier 
  5 - The Bravest Battle by Joaquin Miller 
  6 - The Storm by John Donne 
  7 - To the Memory of the Americans Who Fell at Eutaw by Philip Freneau 
  8 - There Was a Crimson Clash of War by Stephen Crane 
  9 - Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg 
  10 - Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen 
  11 - War Sonnet V - The Soldier by Rupert Brooke 
  12 - The Dying Patriot by James Elroy Flecker 
  13 - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon

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  Space Girl (NHB Modern Plays)

  Helen Stanley

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  An action-packed play bursting with songs and imagination, celebrating curiosity, resilience and exploration.
  Mary Moon is nine years old and dreams of travelling across the galaxy, just like her brave and brilliant astronaut father. But Mary hasn't seen her dad since last week, and nobody will tell her where he is…
  Follow Mary on her journey through the solar system, as she faces meteors, monsters and the Sea of Sorrow in her mission to bring her dad back home.
  Helen Stanley's play Space Girl was first staged at the Broadway Theatre, London, performed by Lewisham Youth Theatre. It is especially suitable for younger audiences and performers, including those under twelve years old.
  The Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series features large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults.

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  Ladies Unleashed

  Amanda Whittington

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  Pearl, Jan and Linda are enjoying a long-awaited break on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, when a surprise visitor turns up. They haven't seen Shelley for years, and their retreat becomes a reunion – and pretty soon, a riot.
  But a lot has changed since they were last together and, cut off from the mainland, tensions rise with the tide. As the sky darkens, the island grows restless with echoes of the past. Will the four still be friends when dawn breaks?
  Following the smash hits Ladies' Day and Ladies Down Under, Amanda Whittington's Ladies Unleashed is the third play in her Ladies Trilogy. A moving comedy about friendship, growing older and living for today, it was first performed at Hull Truck Theatre in September 2022, directed by Mark Babych.
  The Ladies are back, and amateur theatre companies – as well as their audiences – are sure to delight in their riotous exploits.

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