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  The Poetry of Trains - A wide...

  Damon Runyon, Amy Lowell,...

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  The mythology of the Train, the Railroad, those two shiny tracks running off into the far distance is a powerful symbol of the industrial age. 
   
  The train was the first mass transit system to network the land and to carry people and materials of every class and of every shape.  A sort of democracy with the only requirement of use being the price of a ticket. 
   
  Poets who grew up with this pulsating leviathan of industry were quick to see its merits for their own lines and verse.   
   
  Across these poems comes both an individual eye across a wide range of feelings, thoughts and ideas as well as, occasionally, the trainspotter’s delight for form and detail from poets such as Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas, Edna St Vincent Millay, Damon Runyon and a host of others. 
   
  1 - The Poetry of Trains - An Introduction 
  2 - A Song of the Rails by Damon Runyon 
  3 - Song of a Train by John Davidson 
  4 - Song of the Rail by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  5 - Rhyme of the Rail by John Godfrey Saxe 
  6 - Up the Line by Will Carleton 
  7 - From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  8 - An Incident in a Railroad Car by Jamers Russell Lowell 
  9 - Railway Times by Martin Faraquar Tupper 
  10 - On the Engine by Night by Alexander Anderson 
  11 - The Night Journey by Rupert Brooke 
  12 - Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  13 - Train Ride by Federico Garcia Lorca 
  14 - The Train by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 
  15 - Homeward Ho! by Ada A Mosher 
  16 - The Rail Road by James Very 
  17 - The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson 
  18 - In the Train by James Thomson 
  19 - The Division Superintendent by Ambrose Bierce 
  20 - The Word of an Engineer by James Weldon Johnson 
  21 - The Train Among the Hills by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 
  22 - The Gospel Train. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 1873 
  23 - The Jaffa and Jerusalem Railway by Eugene Field 
  24 - In the Train and At Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  25 - The Ledbury Train by Radclyffe Hall 
  26 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas 
  27 - The Ancient Arteries of America by Daniel Sheehan 
  28 - Subway Wind by Claude McKay 
  29 - In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound 
  30 - Railway Rhymes by C L Graves 
  31 - What's the Railroad to Me by Henry David Thoreau 
  32 - The Railway Station by Archibald Lampman 
  33 - Thompson's Lunch Room, Grand Central Station by Amy Lowell 
  34 - Faintheart in a Railway Train by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - Song O' the Lost Trains by Damon Runyon 
  36 - The Phantom Train by Tom Hood 
  37 - One of the Unfair Sex by Ambrose Bierce 
  38 - September 1st. 1802 by William Wordsworth 
  39 - Autumn in the Garden by Fredegond Shove 
  40 - A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird 
  41 - In the Train by Sara Teasdale 
  42 - To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman 
  43 - On the Departure Platform by Thomas Hardy 
  44 - Guild Signal by Bret Harte 
  45 - The Send Off by Wilfred Owen

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  Collier Laddie

  Rab Wilson

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  Forty years on from the 1984–85 UK Miners' Strike, the largest union-led industrial action in the 20th century, Rab Wilson – a former miner deeply entrenched in the strike – delivers a powerful narrative through his mining poems and strike diary, addressing contemporary social and economic issues in Scotland and the UK then and now.
  Having toiled in Scotland's mining industry for eight years, Rab provides an authentic voice that resonates with the struggles faced during the strike, vividly captured from his involvement between 12 March 1984 and 5 March 1985. This book serves as a testament to the working-class struggle, offering a unique perspective on the historical significance of Scotland's mining industry, skillfully expressed by a poet intimately connected to it. Rab Wilson emerges as an essential chronicler, ensuring the legacy of the miners' challenging strike endures in the pages of this evocative and timely work.
  Collier Laddie is an ode to resilience, solidarity and the enduring legacy of those who fought for justice during a pivotal moment in industrial history.

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  A Rare Recording of Sylvia Plath...

  Sylvia Plath

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  Sylvia Plath born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, MA, was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), and also The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide on February 11, 1963. In this recording, Plath reads "Tulips," "Poppies In October," "Daddy," "Ariel," "Lady Lazarus," and "The Applicant."

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  Falsely Accused

  Pamela J

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  Is Spank a cheater? Or is Daphne just an insecure, paranoid wife, who believes her husband is always cheating if she is not right in front of him.  Come alone to find out if Spank is a loving caring husband or if Daphne is right and he is a cheater or is Spank just is Falsely Accused

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  The Rupture Tense - Poems

  Jenny Xie

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  Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, Jenny Xie cracks open reverberant, vexed experiences of diasporic homecoming, intergenerational memory  
  transfer, state-enforced amnesia, public secrecies, and the psychic fallout of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Across these poems, memory—historical, collective, personal—stains and erodes. Xie voices what remains irreducible in our complex entanglements with familial ties, language, capitalism, and the histories in which we find ourselves lodged. 
   
  The Rupture Tense begins with poems provoked by the photography of Li Zhensheng, whose negatives, hidden under his floorboards to avoid government seizure, provide one of the few surviving visual archives of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and concludes with an aching elegy for the poet’s grandmother, who took her own life shortly after the end  
  of the Revolution. This extraordinary collection records the aftershocks and long distances between those years and the present, echoing out toward the ongoing past and a trembling future.

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  Dying To End It

  Joey Sanchez

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  When Frank’s wife of many years is killed in a car accident and he is left badly injured, he quickly grows tired of life. No longer wishing to be a burden on his daughters who are missing out on their own lives by having to care for him, he hatches a plan. 
  Heading off out onto the mean streets of New York, the city he grew up in, Frank decides that he will find a way to end his life there without resorting to the sin of taking it himself. 
  However, his plans are thrown into confusion when he bumps into an old friend, Carlo. In years gone by Frank had helped Carlo, who was part of the Mafia, with fraudulent insurance claims but had turned his back on a life of crime, leading to Carlo being demoted by his bosses. 
  Now, the two old friends catch up on past times as Frank’s plans for his final hours slowly draw closer. But Carlo has a dark secret that he has kept from Frank. The resentment he had been carrying after being betrayed by his friend had been allowed to fester and boil to the surface, and now he is about to reveal the full shocking truth of his actions to him. 
  How will Frank react? Will he still be able to find a way to end his life on his terms? Or is that nagging feeling at the back of his mind about to show him something terrifying?

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