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  The Invincibles

  Amanda Whittington

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  1917: World War One is raging in Europe. In Britain, Sterling Ladies – known as the Dagenham Invincibles – are playing to win. For two whirlwind seasons, they never lose a game. Yet once peace is restored, the factory girls must hang up their boots and see triumph fade into obscurity.
  2023: Injured footballer Maya follows England's progress through the Women's World Cup. The world has changed, yet the roar of the Lionesses echoes the Invincibles' war-cry. Watching at home, Maya fears she'll never play again – but as she loses herself in the present, she hears the call of the past and finds fresh hope for the future.
  Amanda Whittington's play The Invincibles celebrates two generations of inspirational women, and their adventures on the football pitch a century apart. It was premiered at Queen's Theatre Hornchurch in 2023, and offers rich opportunities for other theatre companies looking to score a hit with their audiences.

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  The Top 10 Poets – English...

  John Keats, William Wordsworth,...

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
  In this volume we listen to the world through the eyes and words of the English Romantics.  This very special poetical period is filled with the loving and tender verse of poets who still beguile us all with their beauty.

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  A Waiter Made of Glass - Stories...

  Verlyn Flieger

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  Award-winning author Verlyn Flieger takes readers through a series of insightful short stories exploring tragic aspects of human nature. A few of the tales are dark, others a bit lighter, but all celebrate the creativity of storytelling. The second part of the book is a collection of new poetry unearthing the wonders of language, the mundane, and grief and mourning as part of life—the dark spot within the light. Death is the inevitable, inescapable result of mortality, and grief is the price the living pay for that condition. Readers are invited to join in the journey, take some comfort in the knowledge of shared darkness, and know that even within the dark moments, there is always at least a speck of splintered light.

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  Color Me White

  Alfred Lloyd

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  Code of Conduct Good qualities in me You will find As you explore my body… And my mind Should you like what you see Then, tell it to others… Sing praises of me In halls and corridors But, if faults are what You see in me Please my love… Tell it first to me.

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  100 Great Catholic Poems

  Sally Read

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  Poetry is the language of Catholicism. From the songs of Scripture to the hymns of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Church has always used metaphor and image, meter and rhyme, and the music of language to illuminate and inculcate the faith.  Yet, when it comes to Catholic poetry itself, the song too often remains unsung. Many devout believers recoil from poetry, even when it is deeply Catholic. Many poetry lovers overlook Catholic poetry, even when it is truly great. And passionate readers are left with few resources from which to draw inspiration—even as the number of great Catholic poems continues to grow. This groundbreaking collection is designed to change that. Edited by acclaimed poet and author Sally Read, it includes a carefully curated collection of poetry with brief essays to introduce each selection; a detailed introduction and glossary of poetic terms; and a wide range of poetic voices—from giants like Dante and Shakespeare, to mystical saints like Hildegard of Bingen and John of the Cross, to modern masters like Gerard Manley Hopkins and Oscar Wilde, to contemporary female poets like Denise Levertov and Anne Porter. What emerges is truly universal: an unparalleled collection spanning twenty countries and twenty centuries. Whether Catholic or non-Catholic, a poetry skeptic or a poetry lover, readers will glean from these pages a deepened appreciation of the history of poetry, the life of the Church, and the powerful ways in which each strengthens the other. 

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  Around the World in 80 Poems - A...

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  In the Victorian age that great adventurer Phileas Fogg attempted to traverse the globe in a mere 80 days using only the existing transport infrastructure and his own nous.    
   
  Today the globe can be spanned much quicker and in more comfortable fashion but alas without much of the intrigues, stories and landscape that accompanied Mr Fogg and made the trip so exciting. 
   
  In this volume we have an answer: Let’s travel the globe with the words and verse of 80 esteemed and voluble poets.  Let’s explore places, peoples, philosophical musings on our world and all manner of things that Mr Fogg had no access to.  With the words of classic poets such as John Keats, Rabindranath Tagore, Du Fu and Edna St Vincent Millay as your companions it’s one heck of a journey. 
   
  1 - Around the World in 80 Poems - An Introduction 
  2 - Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  3 - Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  4 - A Ballad of London by Richard Le Gallienne 
  5 - The World State by G K Chesterton 
  6 - The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud 
  7 - In the Train and at Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  8 - Train Ride by Federico Garcia Lorca 
  9 - I Go on Dreaming of Paths by Antonio Machado 
  10 - Sonnet I by Fernando Pessoa 
  11 - Sonnet on Approaching Italy by Oscar Wilde 
  12 - To Italy by Radclyffe Hall 
  13 - Sicily December 1908 by Henry Van Dyke 
  14 - Sonnet to Lake Leman by Lord Byron 
  15 - Pathways by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  16 - In the Black Forest by Amy Levy 
  17 - Calm at Sea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
  18 - Sonnet to Ocean by Thomas Hood 
  19 - In Amsterdam by Eugene Field 
  20 - Sonnet at Ostend July 22nd 1787 by William Lisle Bowles 
  21 - Belgium by Edith Wharton 
  22 - Forced March by Miklos Radnoti 
  23 - Autumn Evening in Serbia by Francis Ledwidge 
  24 - The Cretan Dance by Sappho 
  25 - The Isles of Greece by Byron 
  26 - Sailing to Byzantium by W B Yeats 
  27 - Constantinople by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 
  28 - Beirut Wedding Poem by Tim Graham 
  29 - The Life of Love - Spring by Khalil Gibran 
  30 - Gates of Damascus by James Elroy Flecker 
  31 - Walk to Caesarea by Hannah Senesh 
  32 - The City of Baghdad by Sultan Bahu 
  33 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  34 - To the Nile by Keats 
  35 - Ode to Ethiopia by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  36 - My Africa by Gladys May Casely Hayford 
  37 - Africa by Lewis Alexander 
  38 - Poem by Sarah of Yemen 
  39 - Sleepless I Kept the Night Vigil by Khansa 
  40 - The Golden Journey to Samarkand by James Elroy Flecker 
  41 - A World with No Boundaries by Jalaluddin Rumi 
  42 - All Pervading Consciousness by Farid ud-Din Attar 
  43 - The Cloud on the Mountain by Alama Iqbal 
  44 - In the Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu 
  45 - To the City of Bombay by Rudyard Kipling 
  46 - An Old Tibetan Rug by Else Lasker Schuler 
  47 - Dawn by Du Fu 
  48 - Chiang Chin Chiu by Li Po 
  49 - In Praise of May by Akiko Yosano 
  50 - Having Slept The Cat Gets Up by Kobayashi Issa 
  51 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear 
  52 - The Loji Expedition by Tom Hood 
  53 - The Ocean by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  54 - A Song for January the 26th 1824 by Charles Tompson 
  55 - Brother, You'll Take My Hand by Henry Lawson 
  56 - Tiare Tahiti by Rupert Brooke 
  57 - A Song of the Panama Canal by Damon Runyon 
  58 - Tezcotzinco by Alan Seeger 
  59 - Down By The Carib Sea by James Weldon Johnson 
  60 - North and South by Claude McKay 
  61 - Bermudas by Andrew Marvell 
  62 - Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman 
  63 - New York at Night by Amy Lowell 
  64 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  65 - Away to Canada by Joshua McCarter Simpson 
  66 - The Railway Station by Archibald Lampman 
  67 - Past One O'Clock by Vladimir Mayakovsky 
  68 - A Dish of Peaches in Russia by Wallace Stevens 
  69 - Aurora Borealis by Herman Melville 
  70 - Iceland First Seen by William Morris 
  71 - My Artificial Flowers by Edith Sodergran 
  72 - The Wayfarer by Patrick Pearse 
  73 - The Lake Isle of Inisfree by W B Yeats 
  74 - Beauti

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