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  How Beautiful People Are

  Ayaz Pirani

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  In How Beautiful People Are, his third collection, Ayaz Pirani continues to write his people’s pothi: a trans-national, inter-generational poetry of post-colonial love and loss animated by the syncretizing figure of Kabir and drawn from the extraordinary diwan of ginan and granth literature. Walking alongside the tiger of Ali and an assortment of beloved infidels, Ayaz uncovers just How Beautiful People Are. After all, what will darkness do, his poems ask, when a true guru makes light?

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  Heretic Voices (NHB Modern...

  Sonya Hale, Annie Fox, Tatty...

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  This volume presents the best new writing in monologue form, celebrating unique voices with exceptional stories to tell. These three plays, finalists in the inaugural Heretic Voices competition, were first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2018.
  Set in Croydon, South London, Dean McBride by Sonya Hale is a vivid and poetic story of deprivation, loss and redemption through love, which tells the story of Dean, a young man hardened by suffering, who struggles in life before finding his way back to happiness.
  A university professor is caught in a storm when an image of her in a changing room is shared online. Exploring how images of women are represented in art and social media, Annie Fox's Woman Caught Unaware is a searing examination of the culture of body-shaming.
  Depicting a teenage girl's solo journey to the North Pole with her father's ashes, A Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy is a complex, epic and undulating story that pitches themes of death and rebirth against a shifting backdrop of climate change, exploration and the uncertain geography of the North.
  This collection includes a foreword from actor and playwright Lolita Chakrabarti, one of the judges of the competition, which was organised by Heretic Productions.

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  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde, Paul Edwards

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  A full cast dramatization of one of the great classics of contemporary Western literature. Dorian Gray, an effete young gentleman, is the subject of a striking portrait by the artist Basil Hallward. Gray’s narcissism is awakened, and he embraces a lifestyle of hedonism and casual cruelties. Increasingly consumed by his own vanity, he is forced to confront his true inner-self, in a manner that is as shocking as it is terrifying.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Steve Juergens, Jim Ortlieb, Colleen Crimmins, Roger Mueller, Thomas Carroll, Paulin Brailsford, Rush Pearson and Martin Duffy.

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  The Poetry of Kissing

  John Keats, William Shakespeare,...

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  In many ways the title says it all. Kissing is poetry. The kiss is perhaps the most loving and intimate moment there is. It is amongst our most soothing and treasured memories. And perhaps also our most erotic.  This volume is not about the kiss of a mother to her child's scraped knee, or the father to his baby's head as he settles down to sleep. No, when the poets here talk of the kiss, they describe the longing and desire, the want and hunger to be part of something that so connects them to another that it can transcend all manner of reason and decorum. That first kiss can be something so anticipated that it is almost electric.  A thousand volt charge of tension and pleasure.  It is also addictive. Who has not wanted to kiss on? Who has not kissed some part of a lover that shrugs off convention in the taming of desire? Who has not kissed, or been kissed by surprise, in wonderment or even on a street corner in the squalling rain. The kiss takes us where our dreams want to go.  This collection of poems is read for you from the lips of Ghizela Rowe and Tim Graham.

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  The Family Romance of Neurotics

  JT Lawrence

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  Junichuro Matsumato is a handsome 42-year-old man: dark-haired, wealthy, and devastated. 
  He stares forlornly at the small glass buddha statue illuminated by the blue LED light behind it. 
  There are thousands of the buddhas behind the glowing panes of glass, five hundred per wall. 
  For easy identification, the light behind his wife’s buddha glows a different hue as he swipes his card to enter. 
  He doesn’t need to be shown where his wife’s glass box is. 
  Junichuro visits here every day and has done for 21 months. He never cries. 
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  "Lawrence makes every word count, telling each story with elegance and emotional punch.” — Patsy Hennessey 
  "Each story is masterfully constructed ... Humorous, touching, creepy, but most of all entertaining, this collection is superb." — Tracy Michelle Anderson

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  The Deep Blue Sea (The Rattigan...

  Terence Rattigan

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  Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.
  
  
  The play opens with the failed suicide of Hester Collyer, who has deserted her husband for the raffish charms of an ex-fighter pilot.
  
  
  This edition includes an authoritative introduction by Dan Rebellato, biographical sketch and chronology.
  
  
  The Deep Blue Sea premiered at the Duchess Theatre, London, in March 1952. It has twice been adapted for film: in 1955, starring Vivien Leigh, and in 2011, starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale.
  
  
  'a masterpiece... a play that cuts at the heart' Telegraph
  
  
  'probably his greatest play... Ibsenesque' Financial Times
  
  'masterly... a perennially moving play' Guardian
  
  'excellent... particularly moving... interlaced with moments of humour and black comedy' WhatsOnStage

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