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  Poetry Hour The - Volume 14

  John Donne, William Shakespeare,...

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  Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words.  The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one.  But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition.  Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. 
   
  Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children’s textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today.  
   
  Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We’ve put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations.   
   
  In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of John Donne and Jane Austen as well as themes on November, The Female Poet, Westminster Memorials and more. 
   
  All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can’t.  Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes.  Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores.  
   
  This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that.   
   
  Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey. 
   
   
  The Poetry Hour – Volume 14 - An Introduction 
  John Donne – An Introduction 
  Death Be Not Proud by John Donne 
  The Good Morrow by John Donne 
  The Expiration by John Donne 
  A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by John Donne 
  Westminster Memorials – An Introduction 
  Longing by Matthew Arnold 
  London by William Blake 
  Heaven by Rupert Brooke 
  Apostasy by Charlotte Bronte 
  When We Two Parted by Lord Byron 
  He That is Down Needs Fear No Fall by John Bunyan 
  Turtle Soup by Lewis Carroll 
  A Thought For A Lonely Death Bed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  November 
  November by Thomas hood 
  November by Amy Lowell 
  November by John Payne 
  A November Night by Sara Teasdale 
  At Day Close In November by Thomas Hardy 
  The Poetry of William Shakespeare - An Introduction 
  If Music Be the Food of Love, from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 
  How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been (Sonnet 97) by William Shakespeare 
  Shall I Compare Thee to A Summers Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare 
  The Witches Spell by William Shakespeare 
  Full Fathom Five by William Shakespeare 
  No Longer Mourn For Me by William Shakespeare 
  Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare  
  The Female Poet – An Introduction. Volume 2 
  No Coward Soul is Mine by Emily Bronte  
  If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning  
  If Infinite Worlds, Infinite Centres by Margaret Cavendish  
  Isabella Valancy Crawford – We Parted in Silence 
  When My Love Did What I Would Not, What I Would Not by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge  
  I’m Ceded – I’ve Stopped Being Theirs by Emily Dickenson  
  Ah, Silly Pug by Queen Elizabeth I  
  Sweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George Eliot  
  The Poets of 19th Century America. An Introduction – Volume 2 
  Heaven is What I Cannot Reach by Emily Dickinson  
  Knee Deep in June by James Whitcomb Riley <

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  A Gay Century Volume 2 1973-2001...

  Peter Scott-Presland

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  ‘A Gay Century: Vol 2’ is a vivid portrait of gay life in recent history, using a series of seven playlets which are dramatic, angry, funny and heartbreaking in turn. A camp old man collides with Gay Liberation and gets a new lease of life; a gay bandsman can’t grieve for his lover killed in an IRA bomb – until he’s thrown out of the army for being gay; a gay man and a lesbian decide to have a baby, but their partners plot to stop it; the bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub devastates not only the victims but their friends. Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde – repression and liberation – battle for supremacy; there can only be one victor.

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  This Is Our Youth

  Kenneth Lonergan

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  Starring Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton and Missy Yager, the original cast was reunited for this exclusive L.A. Theatre Works performance of This is Our Youth. In 1982, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, three pot-smoking teenagers are resoundingly rejecting the 1960’s ideals of their affluent parents. In hilarious and bittersweet detail, This is Our Youth follows forty-eight turbulent hours in the lives of three very lost souls at the dawn of the Reagan Era.Includes an interview with playwright Kenneth Lonergan, director Mark Brokaw and the three actors who originated the roles of Warren, Dennis and Jessica – Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton, and Missy Yager. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Mark Ruffalo as WarrenJosh Hamilton as Dennis Missy Yager as JessicaDirected by Mark Brokaw. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

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  Wormwood (NHB Modern Plays)

  Catherine Czerkawska

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  A poetic and heart-rending play written in response to the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Wormwood homes in on the experience of Natalya, a scientist and the only member of her family to survive.

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  Gielgud's Hamlet

  William Shakespeare

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  This outstanding historical recording made in 1941 for radio is widely regarded as one of the finest Hamlet performances ever, and one of John Gielgud’s greatest moments. Though he went on to record it for commercial release, nothing matched this recording in the BBC studios, made before the days of editing.

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  The Noel Coward Collection

  Noel Coward

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  Six phenomenally sophisticated Noël Coward comedies:Fallen Angels: Julia and Fred and Willy and Jane are happily married and the best of friends, until a postcard arrives with news of the imminent arrival of a certain handsome Frenchman.Gay, debonair, and utterly sophisticated. Performed by: Annette Bening, Harriet Harris, Judith Ivey, Joe Mantegna, John Rubinstein and Kristoffer Tabori.Hay Fever: A country house weekend goes haywire when the guests and their hosts play a game of romantic musical chairs. This witty masterpiece is filled with Coward’s biting commentary on his own profession. Performed by: Tate Donovan, Arabella Field, Joy Gregory, Jeffrey Jones, Lynne Marta, Serena Scott Thomas, Carolyn Seymour, Eric Stoltz and Simon Templeman.Private Lives: On the French Rivera, the lights of a yacht are reflected in the water and in the eyes of four hilariously mismatched lovers. Perhaps Coward’s greatest comedy, Private Lives shimmers with romance, desire and bittersweet truth. Performed by: Rosalind Ayres, Marnie Mosiman, Ian Ogilvy, Begonya Piazza and Kristoffer Tabori.Design For Living: Three terminally stylish friends attempt to uncoil their twisted love triangle in this sexy and scandalous gem. Written in 1932, the play was deemed extremely daring, and is controversial even by today’s standards. Performed by: Michelle Arthur, Claire Forlani, Thomas Hildreth, Tim Morrison, Sarah Rafferty, Douglas Weston and Hamish Linklater.Present Laughter: Stage star Garry Essendine struggles to plan his trip to Africa while his flat is invaded by a love struck ingénue, an adulterous producer, a married seductress, Garry’s estranged wife Liz and an aspiring playwright who is quite, quite mad. Performed by: Gregory Cooke, Arthur Hanket, Jon Matthews, Ian Oglivy, Siri O’Neal, Christina Pickles, Carolyn Seymour and Yeardley Smith.Blithe Spirit: A convivial evening party among friends is transformed when a séance conjures the ghost of Elvira, the host’s first wife, who delights in wreaking havoc among the living. An absolutely enchanting Coward comedy. Performed by: Rosalind Ayres, Alexandra Boyd, Judy Geeson, Shirley Knight, Lynne Marta, Christopher Neame and Ian Ogilvy.Exclusive bonus material: Two rarely-performed shorts by Noël Coward, “Design for Rehearsing” (performed by Michael Gladis, Matthew Wolf and Sarah Zimmerman) and “Age Cannot Wither” (performed by Juliet Mills, Susan Sullivan and JoBeth Williams), as well as two conversations on Coward with Barry Day (Noel Coward Foundation) and John Lahr (The New Yorker).

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