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  Bacon

  Sophie Swithinbank

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  'I seen you looking at me. Like that. You gonna deny it? Go on. I swear down, Mark – deny it.'
  It's Year 10's first day back at school. Mark is new and too scared to make friends. Darren is out of control and too scary to make friends. The two of them need each other – but neither would ever admit it.
  Worlds apart, but more similar than they realise, the pair form a complex and manipulative relationship. And before they know it, they're embarking on a dangerous experiment that will alter the course of their lives.
  Sophie Swithinbank's play Bacon is an unflinching and unexpectedly humorous look at masculinity, sexuality and power, through the dizzying lens of youth.
  The play was first produced at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2022, directed by Matthew Iliffe, before touring in 2023 to Riverside Studios, London; Summerhall, as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; and Bristol Old Vic. First developed on the Soho Theatre Writers' Lab, Bacon won the 2018 Tony Craze Award, three Off-West End Awards (Best Director and two Best Performance in a Play awards), and the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and Film 4 Award for 2023.

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  The Secrets of Catspraddle Village

  Callie Browning

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  A grisly murder without a suspect. A bizarre love triangle. A philosopher moonlighting as a garbage man who gets a gun put to his head every Tuesday morning. 
  These are the secret lives of the residents of Catspraddle Village, a fictional district in the Caribbean island of Barbados. This collection of award-winning short stories by author Callie Browning is filled with hilarious banter, crazy escapades and thought-provoking events that tell The Secrets of Catspraddle Village. This one-hour literary fiction short story anthology by award-winning author, Callie Browning, will give you a front-row seat to all of the drama that can happen in a tiny Bajan village.

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  The Haystack in the Floods - The...

  William Morris

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  William Morris was born in Walthamstow, London on 24th March 1834 he is regarded today as a foremost poet, writer, textile designer, artist and libertarian.  
  Morris began to publish poetry and short stories in 1856 through the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine which he founded with his friends and financed while at university. His first volume, in 1858, The Defence of Guenevere and Other  Poems, was the first published book of Pre-Raphaelite poetry. Due to its luke-warm reception he was discouraged from poetry writing for a number of years.  
  His return to poetry was with the great success of The Life and Death of Jason in 1867, which was followed by The Earthly Paradise, themed around a group of medieval wanderers searching for a land of everlasting life; after much disillusion, they discover a surviving colony of Greeks with whom they exchange stories. In the collection are retellings of Icelandic sagas. From then until his Socialist period Morris's fascination with the ancient Germanic and Norse peoples dominated his writing being the first to translate many of the Icelandic sagas into English; the epic retelling of the story of Sigurd the Volsung being his favourite.  
  In 1884 he founded the Socialist League but with the rise of the Anarchists in the party he left it in 1890.  
  In 1891 he founded the Kelmscott Press publishing limited edition illuminated style books.  His design for The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is a masterpiece.  
  Morris was quietly approached with an offer of the Poet Laureateship after the death of Tennyson in 1892, but declined.  
  William Morris died at age 62 on 3rd October 1896 in London.

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  Born in the USA - The New York...

  Herman Melville, George Arnold,...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. 
   
  The United States may be many things: the world’s policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. 
   
  Little wonder that’s its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art.  Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up.   
   
  In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in one of the most famous cities in the World: New York. Within its five boroughs are a small universe of wonder and magic, a kaleidoscope of almost everything the planet has to offer.  In past times New York was a gateway to a new land and a new future whatever the misery and tragedy of your former life.  Of course, this golden vision was not attained by everyone.  But our local poets, including such luminaries as Emma Lazarus, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Alice Duer Miller, and Alan Seeger bring vision and truth to this unrivalled city and its hallowed status in the world of verse. 
   
   
  1 - Born in the USA. The New York City Poets.  Exploring American Poetry - An Introduction 
  2 - September by George Arnold 
  3 - October by George Arnold 
  4 - A Chant of Love for England by Helen Gray Cone 
  5 - Rheims Cathedral, 1914 by Grace Hazard Conkling 
  6 - To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window by Adelaide Crapsey 
  7 - Keats by Adelaide Crapsey 
  8 - The Revolt of Mother by Alice Duer Miller 
  9 - To the Night Breeze by Alice & Caroline Duer 
  10 - Nathan Hale by Francis Miles Finch 
  11 - The Wild Honey Suckle by Phillip Freneau 
  12 - A Political Litany by Philip Freneau 
  13 - To the Memory of the Americans Who Fell at Eutaw by Philip Freneau 
  14 - Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe 
  15 - Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe 
  16 - This Curse by Henry James 
  17 - Old Manuscript by Alfred Kreymborg 
  18 - Cradle by Alfred Kreymborg 
  19 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  20 - A June Night by Emma Lazarus 
  21 - Assurance by Emma Lazarus 
  22 - Evil In Design by Emma Lazarus 
  23 - America by Herman Melville 
  24 - Dupont's Round Fight (November 1861) by Herman Melville 
  25 - Look-Out Mountain by Herman Melville 
  26 - Shiloh by Herman Melville 
  27 - The Portent by Herman Melville 
  28 - A Visit From St Nicholas (T'Was The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 
  29 - Aspiration by Henrietta Cordelia Ray 
  30 - Life by Henrietta Cordelia Ray 
  31 - Silent Thoughts by Charles Lewis Reason 
  32 - The Spirit Voice or Liberty Call to The Disfranchised by Charles Lewis Reason 
  33 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger 
  34 - Resurgam by Alan Seeger 
  35 - Sonnet 12 by Alan Seeger 
  36 - At the Tomb of Napoleon by Alan Seeger 
  37 - Battle Sleep by Edith Wharton 
  38 - Survival by Edith Wharton 
  39 - Non Dolet by Edith Wharton 
  40 - Terminus by E

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  The Poetry of Lord Byron -...

  Lord Byron

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  George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, but more commonly known as just Byron was a leading English poet in the Romantic Movement along with Keats and Shelley. 
  Byron was born on January 22nd, 1788.  He was a great traveller across Europe, spending many years in Italy and much time in Greece.  With his aristocratic indulgences, flamboyant style along with his debts, and a string of lovers he was the constant talk of society.  
  In 1823 he joined the Greeks in their war of Independence against the Ottoman Empire, both helping to fund and advise on the war’s conduct.  
  It was an extraordinary adventure, even by his own standards. But, for us, it is his poetry for which he is mainly remembered even though it is difficult to see where he had time to write his works of immense beauty. But write them he did.  
  He died on April 19th 1824 after having contracted a cold which, on the advice of his doctors, was treated with blood-letting.  This cause complications and a violent fever set in.  Byron died like his fellow romantics, tragically young and on some foreign field. 
   This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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  Elegies & Laments - Poetic...

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas...

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  In these more modern time perhaps our first thoughts of an Elegy or a Lament is for someone’s passing.  Wreathed in grief and death we think of a headstone on a silent grave and the memories that shelter within our hearts, slowly receding from one generation to the next, as an often lonely voice extols the virtues and traits of the one who has passed. 
   
  But these two very early forms of poetry, dating back to at least Ovid and probably further, are also surprising in their lyrical touch.  These are not just mournful and sad but also whimsical or rich with celebration and tribute as they journey through joy, laughter, love, tears and comfort. 
   
  Our Classic Poets, who have specifically chosen to include the form in the title of their work, include the likes of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Chatterton, Aphra Behn, Rainer Maria Rilke, Radclyffe Hall and many others of equal measure are always surprising in their views, their analysis and their sharing of words and thoughts, offering feelings that mirror our own and provide a balm of many hues for our wounded and tender souls. 
   
  1 - Elegies and Laments - An Introduction 
  2 - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 
  3 - The Lament of Swordy Well by John Clare 
  4 - An Elegy on a Pile of Ruins by John Cunningham 
  5 - Lament by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  6 - Elegy - Supposed to Be Written in Barnet Churchyard by George Townsend 
  7 - Elegy by Thomas Chatterton 
  8 - A Lament by Radclyffe Hall 
  9 - An Elegy by Ben Jonson 
  10 - Laeta - A Lament by HP Lovecraft 
  11 - Angellica's Lament by Aphra Behn 
  12 - Amores - Book I Elegy V - Corinna in an Afternoon by Ovid 
  13 - Morning Lament by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
  14 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones 
  15 - Noon Day Elegiacs by T W Rolleston 
  16 - Midnight Lamentation by Harold Munro 
  17 - February. An Elegy by Thomas Chatterton 
  18 - Elegy in April and September by Wilfred Owen 
  19 - Elegy by Anna Seward 
  20 - Autumn Elegy by Leslie Norris 
  21 - Elegy on the Year 1788 by Robert Burns 
  22 - Elegy for an Enemy by Stephen Vincent Benet 
  23 - An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith 
  24 - Pointless It Is To Lament by Narsinh Mehta 
  25 - To the Beloved Dead - A Lament by Alice Meynell 
  26 - The Slave's Lament by Benjamin Cutler Clark 
  27 - The Slaves Lament by Robert Burns 
  28 - A Lament by Katharine Tynan 
  29 - The Going of the Battery (Wives Lament November the 2nd 1899) by Thomas Hardy 
  30 - Lament in 1915 by Harold Munro 
  31 - An Elegy on the Death of Llywelyn ab Gruyffyd by Gruffydd ap Yr Ynad Coch 
  32 - Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady by Alexander Pope 
  33 - Elegy on a Lady Whom Grief for the Death of Her Bethrothed Killed by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  34 - Lament by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  35 - The Mother's Lament For Her Infant by Lucretia Maria Davidson 
  36 - Elegy on the Death of Mr Phillips by Thomas Chatterton 
  37 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 
  38 - Lament for Thomas McDonagh by Francis Ledwidge 
  39 - Elegy on the Earl of Rochester by Anne Wharton 
  40 - Elegy on William Shakespeare by William Basse 
  41 - Adonais - An Elegy on the Death of John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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