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  Bang Bang Bang (NHB Modern Plays)

  Stella Feehily

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  Stella Feehily brings her trademark wit and emotional insight to this revealing play that goes behind the public face of charities, journalists and NGOs, and is drawn directly from workshops and interviews with aid workers, doctors, human rights defenders, government advisers, journalists and photographers.
  A seasoned human rights defender and her idealistic young colleague embark on a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. For Mathilde, it's an induction into a life less ordinary. For Sadhbh it's back to madness and chaos away from her lover and London - exactly as she likes it.
  But while Mathilde lets off steam with a photographer and a spliff, Sadhbh has her own encounter: tea with a smart but brutal young warlord she's investigating.
  'ambitious, well-researched and sharply presented' - Guardian
  'Stella Feehily's best work to date' - Whatsonstage.com

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  Damon Runyon Theater - All Horse...

  Damon Runyon

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  The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.  Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America.  Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; He’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.  Runyon described himself as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around".  That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.  It was like you were with him on some street corner hustle or some shady dive and he was filling you in on all the angles, all the gossip, all of life. He was who so many people wanted to be with……or so many people wanted to be.  Of course, the cliché about newspapermen and writers is that they are heavy drinkers, chain-smokers, gamblers and obsessively chase women with a sideline in the gathering of stories and facts and actually getting something written just before the deadline hits. That seems like Damon Runyon and his life summed up in one sentence.  His stories became legendary ways of looking that bit differently at America, of soaking up the atmosphere of a glamorous and rip-roaring age and distilling it into a black and white type or, in our case, The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.

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  Harm (NHB Modern Plays)

  Douglas Maxwell

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  A father and son wait in a new 'self-harming unit'. As the clock ticks by, the father begins to pour out his guilt, anger and concern to his son.
  This short play was first staged at the Tron Theatre, in 2006.

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  The Many Days - Selected Poems...

  Norman MacCaig

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  A centennial celebration of the Scottish poet. “[A] testament to his apperception and skill in crafting verse on the impulse of things seen and thought.” —PN Review By the time of his death in January 1996, Norman MacCaig was known widely as the grand old man of Scottish poetry, honored by an Order of the British Empire (OBE) and the Queen’s Medal for Poetry. This book is a celebration of MacCaig’s life—published in 2010, the hundredth anniversary of his birth—and it features 100 of his best poems, edited by his son Ewen.Praise for Norman MacCaig “I have always loved the mixture of strictness and susceptibility in Norman MacCaig’s work. It is an ongoing education in the marvelous possibilities of lyric poetry.” —Seamus Heaney “I have read or re-read every poem (in the Collected Poems), and I think it one of the greatest literary experiences of my life.” —Sorley MacLean “Whenever I read his poems, I’m always struck by their undated freshness; everything about them is alive, as new and essential, as ever.” —Ted Hughes

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  Common Place

  Sarah Pinder

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  Common Place explores the stories of shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes bound by systems of capital and power. From thin threads of text messages across borders to encounters with strangers in the crush of rush-hour transit, Sarah Pinder names our most private and public moments of seeing and being seen. With considered, quiet urgency, this poem witnesses our ambiguous, aching present and looks towards what comes next.
  
   
  ‘Watch for theplaces where Pinder goes for the imperative: like the book as a whole, these commands are generous, beautiful, and difficult lifelines thrown from a fellow survivor of the present.’
  
   
  – Jennifer Nelson, author of Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife
  
   
  ‘Common Place feels like the logbook of a survivor, one that shows how the intimate and the idiosyncratic persist within the post-capitalist technosphere. A tatteredrecord keeping, Common Place is friend of the abject landscape, “home of the lesser, lowercase subject.�* Grasp its compassionate disposition, and this fragmentary poem reveals the affective centre of its ingeniously dissociative fabric.’
  
   
  – Sue Sinclair, author of Heaven’s Thieves

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  Fifty Shades of Spring - 50 of...

  William Wordsworth, Kahlil...

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  Nature’s year begins.  Temperatures slowly rise.  Green gradually becomes the dominant colour of the landscape.  Rain from drenching showers to windy squalls help nourish the land.  Nature has embarked on her epic symphony of the year.   
   
  Each year, each season, each day is a little different from her previous work.  Days lengthen as her canvas and palette grows more confident. Colour emerges from the shades of monochrome.  She is at work on tasks everywhere. 
   
  Naturally our classic poets rise to the challenge knowing that they will only be able to detail fragments or broad brush stroke the whole.  They ponder, they write, they wonder. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of Spring - An Introduction 
  02 - The Year's at the Spring by Robert Browning 
  03 - A Spring Poem from Bion by Eugene Field 
  04 - A March Snow by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  05 - Very Early Spring by Katherine Mansfield 
  06 - The Life of Love - Spring by Kahlil Gibran 
  07 - Lines Written In Early Spring by William Wordsworth 
  08 - To A Daisy Found Blooming March 7th by John Hartley 
  09 - A Shropshire Lad XXIX - The Lent Lilly by A E Housman 
  10 - March by John Payne 
  11 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 
  12 - March by A E Housman 
  13 - Song of Haiwatha (Extract) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  14 - March - An Ode by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  15 - A Light Exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  16 - Sonnet XLIII. The Malvern Hills, March 12th 1835 by Henry Alford 
  17 - In March by Archibald Lampman 
  18 - These, I, Singing In Spring by Walt Whitman 
  19 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  20 - Next Years Spring by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 
  21 - The Message of the March Wind by William Morris 
  22 - April by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  23 - Love Like An April Day Beguiles by James Bland Burgess 
  24 - An April Love by Alfred Austin 
  25 - It Was An April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth 
  26 - An April Fool by Alfred Austin 
  27 - Stanzas April 1814 by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  28 - April Evening, France, April 1916 by John William Streets 
  29 - In Springtime by Rudyard Kipling 
  30 - A Petition to April, Written During Sickness by Susanna Blamire 
  31 - The Soul of April by Bliss William Carman 
  32 - April by Sara Teasdale 
  33 - Here by the Brimming April Streams by Phillip Henry Savage 
  34 - The Idlers Calender - April - Trout Fishing by William Scawen Blunt 
  35 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  36 - April 1844 by Henry Alford 
  37 - Over the May Hill by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  38 - Song on May Morning by John Milton 
  39 - May Day by Edith Nesbit 
  40 - It is Not Always May by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  41 - Slow Spring by Katharine Tynan 
  42 - Ode Composed on a May Morning by William Wordsworth 
  43 - A Calender of Sonnets - May by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  44 - In May by William Henry Davies 
  45 - May Night by Sara Teasdale 
  46 - The Young May Moon by Thomas Moore 
  47 - In Praise of May by Akiko Yosano 
  48 - Winds of May That Dance on the Sea by James Joyce 
  49 - May Song by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 
  50 - A Little Madness in the Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  51 - May Magnificat by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  52 - May 1918 by John Jay Chapman

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