Verlag: Nick Hern Books
Two Dublin cousins, Damian and Kevin, are reunited for a family funeral in a highly charged encounter full of disillusion, denial and dark laughter. Deirdre Kinahan's short play Hue & Cry was first staged by Tall Tales theatre company at Bewley's Café Theatre, Dublin, in 2007.
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "William Butler Yeats: 16 Poems and Analyses" invites listeners into the luminous, mysterious world of one of Ireland’s greatest poets, presented with a fresh sense of intimacy and emotional depth. This audiobook brings together sixteen of Yeats’s most compelling works, each paired with a thoughtful, accessible analysis that illuminates the poem’s themes, symbols, and craft without sacrificing its magic. Whether Yeats is exploring the longing of youth, the ache of unfulfilled desire, or the turning of history’s wheel, his voice resonates with a timeless beauty that continues to move readers more than a century later. Each poem is accompanied by an original piano underscore, composed and adapted by A. M. Bly to reflect the unique emotional atmosphere of Yeats’s verse. These musical settings do not overpower the poetry; instead, they enhance its rhythms and imagery, offering listeners a deeper, more immersive experience. From gentle, wistful harmonies to bold, dramatic motifs, the music enriches the language and invites the listener to feel each poem as Yeats might have intended: alive, mysterious, and resonant with inner music. Narrated by the expressive and natural-sounding AI voice Willow, this collection balances clarity with warmth, guiding listeners through Yeats’s shifting landscapes of myth, memory, love, and dream. Willow’s narration brings a steadiness and emotional sensitivity to each piece, helping the nuances of the poetry—and the insights that follow—to unfold with ease. Ideal for longtime admirers of Yeats and newcomers alike, this audiobook offers not only a rich appreciation of the poems themselves but also a set of interpretations that deepen understanding and spark reflection. William Butler Yeats: 16 Poems and Analyses is an evocative blend of literature, insight, and music—an invitation to revisit, re-hear, and rediscover a master poet’s enduring work.Zum Buch
Rosa Santori has always been a rebel, refusing to conform to the limitations placed upon her. But when a car accident changes her life forever, she must fight for survival and find a new path forward. As a psychology intern at Remington Hospital, Laura Falifax is eager to prove herself. But her husband's resentment and sabotage threaten to hold her back. When Laura meets Rosa, their worlds collide, and they both find themselves in a place where struggle becomes motivation. But can they overcome their differences and work together, or will life's obstacles hinder their growth?Zum Buch
Performed by Propaganda and featuring four exclusive original songs. In this debut collection of essays and poetry, musician, speaker, and activist Propaganda inspires us to create a better, more equitable world. “If we get to make the very cultures that shape who we are, then let us remake them in the best way possible.” In this deep, challenging, and thoughtful book, Propaganda looks at the ways in which our world is broken. Using the metaphor of terraforming—creating a livable world out of an inhospitable one—he shows how we can begin to reshape our homes, friendships, communities, and politics. In this transformative time—when we are redefining what a truly just and equitable world looks like, and reflecting on the work that needs to be done both in our spiritual and secular lives—Propaganda rallies readers to create that just world. He sheds light on how nefarious origin stories have skewed our views of ourselves and others and allowed gross injustices, and demonstrates how great storytelling and excellent art can create and shape new perspectives of the world and make all of us better. ?Includes the songs "" IAGBTW (It Ain't Gotta Be This Way)”, "" The Soils Alive"", "" Us We "", and ""Imagine"" (featuring Nahoa Life) by Propaganda.Zum Buch
"you start every new day with an inventory: a moth, a cape, a parachute, a coffin, a gun, the wall you built to mount the gun." On the Subject of Fallen Things is an addictive, Chekhovian metanarrative: phenomenological, absurd, and dripping with black humour. James Kearns' speaker keeps company with Lazarus, an inept psychic, and a deceased superhero, but finds himself increasingly alone—lost in dialogue with mortality, both personal and anthropological. Permanence, culpability, the function and corruption of human storytelling: all come into play in a surge of momentum that grips the reader, even as it breaks apart: a lean explosion, a gunshot in the distance. "On the Subject of Fallen Things weaves whimsy into narrative epiphanies that you never see coming. Each line aggregating weight like the lightness of snowflakes gathering into an avalanche. Hugely enjoyable. Get it now." Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise, Winner of the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize "This is a really brilliant sequence of poems. Like Ponge, or Herbert, or Steger, or Simic, it manages to be both serious and fleeting, weighty and funny. It's hopeful, actually." S.J. Fowler, 3:AM MagazineZum Buch
A pretty, dark and eclectic book of poetry by Allpoetry.com's Poet called The Poette.Requiem Under the moon's silver glow, I could forget everything and live in this moment forever, tugs on the heartstrings like a beautiful voice in song, words are the dreams the heart makes, all now of the dream I have is a requiem.Zum Buch
In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse. These poems - considered the greatest written during WWI and some of the greatest poetry of the twentieth century - show the horror of war but also shine a light on the strength of human courage, bravery, and virtue. The full list of poets included in this collection are: Thomas Hardy; Isaac Rosenberg; Rupert Brooke; Katharine Tynan; Jessie Pope; Charles Hamilton Sorley; Laurence Binyon; Wallace Stevens; May Wedderburn Cannan; Vera Mary Brittain; May Sinclair; Robert Nichol; John McCrae; Siegfried Sassoon; Edward Thomas; Alan Seeger; Edith Wharton; Edward Thomas; Sara Teasdale; Julian Grenfell; WB Yeats; Margaret Postgate Cole; Rudyard Kipling; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson; Arthur Graeme West; Henry Newbolt; Robert W. Service; Florence Ripley Mastin; Anna Gordon Keown; Wilfred Owen; Robert Graves; Francis Ledwidge; Ivor Gurney; Mary Borden; Gertrude Stein; Carl Sandburg; Robert Nichols; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; John Peale Bishop; Charlotte Mew; Ezra Pound; Carl Sandburg; Robert Frost; Edgell Rickword; Hervey Allen; G. K. Chesterton; Edmund Blunden; A. E. Housman; Ernest Hemingway; Jessie St. John.Zum Buch
