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  Floodmeadow

  Toby Martinez de las Rivas

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  The Floodmeadow draws us into a seething pastoral where lightning threatens and thunder gathers, pylons and powerlines hum, and steel-framed gates sing out into the wind. In these incantatory pieces, everything is present at once. The landscape, teetering on apocalypse, is characterised by collision and disintegration. Among fragments of memory and history are meticulously journaled observations of the natural world: the moorhen who 'with exaggerated delicacy steps / free of the reedbeds'; the dragonfly that 'pushes itself through the armour / of its body' to be born.  The world is populated by archangels and wild gods, the roar of military aircraft, hunting dogs caught permanently suspended in the chase and a car that veers from the road into the floodwater in which the whole collection is saturated. Human relations are fleeting and vulnerable, appearing in the impression of a wedding or the recurring moments captured between a father and son, who make between them delicate balsawood constructions, which - as the poems do themselves - take flight in the turmoil, ecstatic one moment, plunged into darkness the next. This is a visionary collection that invokes other times, dimensions and soundscapes to tell out some word of beauty and abundance in the here and now.

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  We Are The Winter People - The...

  Jenny Rowbory

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  We Are The Winter People is the collected works of Jenny Rowbory. The diverse range of poetry deals with love, loss and the poet's ever-changing relationship with faith. Despite the struggles depicted within the work, it is an ultimately empowering collection, filled with strength, determination and hope. We Are The Winter People contains poems to 'come alongside you and hold your hand' and will offer you compassion and company in your times of struggle. Beautifully written, sometimes playful and sometimes painful, the poetry speaks to our souls as we try to navigate this life together.We are the winter people was recorded and produced at Monkeynut Audiobooks, UK. monkeynutuk.com

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  Born in the USA - The...

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily...

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  1 - Born in the USA - The Massachusetts Poets - An Introduction 
  2 - June by Horatio Alger Jr 
  3 - America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates 
  4 - Beyond by Katharine Lee Bates 
  5 - Come Unto Me by Katherine Lee Bates 
  6 - Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves by William Stanley Braithwaite 
  7 - Hymn to the North Star by William Cullen Bryant 
  8 - Song of Marion's Men by William Cullen Bryant 
  9 - October by William Cullen Bryant 
  10 - The Death of Slavery by William Cullen Bryant 
  11 - Hope is the Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - I Measure Every Grief by Emily Dickinson 
  13 - Where Roses Would Not Dare to Go by Emily Dickinson 
  14 - A Light Exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  15 - This Was a Poet - It Is That by Emily Dickinson 
  16 - Credo by W E B Du Bois 
  17 - Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  18 - Letters by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  19 - Water by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  20 - A Nation's Strength by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  21 - Fate by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  22 - The Eyes of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  23 - The Black Finger by Angelina Weld Grimke 
  24 - Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  25 - In the Reading Room of the British Museum by Louise Imogen Guiney 
  26 - Forms of Heroes by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  27 - The Ocean by Nathamiel Hawthorne 
  28 - Address to the Moon by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  29 - The Old Man of the Sea by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  30 - Hymm for the Celebration at the Laying of the Cornerstone of Harvard Memorial Hall, Cambridge, October 6th 1870 by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  31 - Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  32 - A Calendar of Sonnets - February by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  33 - A Calender of Sonnets - May by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  34 - A Calender of Sonnets - November by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  35 - The Fir Tree and the Brook by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  36 - The Poet by Amy Lowell 
  37 - Meeting House Hill by Amy Lowell 
  38 - Madonna of the Evening Flowers by Amy Lowell 
  39 - Late September by Amy Lowell 
  40 - Lilacs by Amy Lowell 
  41 - Midnight by James Russell Lowell 
  42 - A Contrast by James Russell Lowell 
  43 - Winter Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell 
  44 - Threnodia by James Russell Lowell 
  45 - A Requiem by James Russell Lowell 
  46 - To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe 
  47 - In Youth I Have Known One by Edgar Allan Poe 
  48 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 
  49 - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe 
  50 - Alone by Edgar Allan Poe 
  51 - Here by the Brimming April Streams by Phillip Henry Savage 
  52 - On the 10th October by Phillip Henry Savage 
  53 - November Blind by Phillip Henry Savage 
  54 - Casey at the Bat by Ernest L Thayer 
  55 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
  56 - Woof of the Sun by Henry David Thoreau 
  57 - Pray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
  58 - What's the Railroad to Me by Henry David Thoreau 
  59 - A Day by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  60 - The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  61 - The Hunters of Men by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  62 - The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  63 - I H B Died August 11th 1898 by William Winter

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  Amédée The New Tenant Victims of...

  Eugène Ionesco

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  Three hilarious and provocative plays by the absurdist pioneer who remains “one of the most important and influential figures in the modern theater” (Library Journal). 
   
  The author of such modern classics as The Bald Soprano, Exit the King, Rhinoceros, and The Chairs, Eugene Ionesco’s plays have become emblematic of Absurdist theatre and the French avant-garde. This essential collection combines The New Tenant with Amédée and Victims of Duty—plays Richard Gilman has called, along with The Killer, Ionesco’s “greatest plays, works of the same solidity, fulness, and permanence as [those of] his predecessors in the dramatic revolution that began with Ibsen and is still going on.” 
   
  In Amédée, the title character and his wife have a problem—not so much the corpse in their bedroom as the fact that it’s been there for fifteen years and is now growing, slowly but surely crowding them out of their apartment. 
   
  In The New Tenant, a similar crowding is caused by an excess of furniture—as Harold Hobson said in the London Times, “there is not a dramatist . . . who can make furniture speak as eloquently as Ionesco, and here he makes it the perfect, the terrifying symbol of the deranged mind.” 
   
  In Victims of Duty, Ionesco parodies the conformity of modern life by plunging his characters into an obscure search for “mallot with a t.”

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  A Visit From Saint Nicholas

  Clement Clarke Moore

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of A Visit From Saint Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore. More commonly known today as 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 13th, 2009.

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  If I Didn’t Love the River - Poems

  Robert Priest

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  In this virtuoso display of sonnets, free verse, prose poems, villanelles, ghazals, and aphorisms, People’s Poet Robert Priest makes it clear why the Pacific Rim Review has called him “surely the most imaginatively inventive poet in the country.” A profound meditation on love, death, sex, and sickness, If I Didn’t Love the River speaks directly to the polarizations of our time. Priest’s mastery of dark satire, lyric ebullience, erotic verse, and the pithy maxim is as gratifying as it is unique and will appeal to the yearning for poetry, which so often goes unsatisfied in the reading public. No emotional territory — from angst, anger, anguish, and despair to whimsical delight — is off-limits here. Intent on releasing reverberations from the full depths and heights of what it is to be human, this is Robert Priest at his protean best.

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