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  Other People's Lives

  Dermot Bolger

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  Every night during a year spent in lockdown, Dermot Bolger set out on long walks through deserted streets, armed only with a pen and paper. Bolger follows in the footsteps of the great Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa, using walks through his native city to allow his imagination free rein to revisit pivotal moments in his own life and speculatively meditate on the lives of others in a series of remarkable poems.
  The book starts with his parents honeymooning in a wartime Wicklow orchard and ends, eight decades later, as the poet dances with his partner in a Wicklow field. In between we encounter Nuala O'Faolain on a bicycle on Brooklyn Bridge; Grace Gifford Plunkett, defiant in her lonely final years; Herbert Simms, Dublin's brilliant, tragically overworked housing architect; and Patricia Lynch, writing The Turf-Cutter's Donkey in one room while her husband wrote communist tracts in the next. Interlaced with such real lives are imagined ones – a hardened criminal detailing prison life in haikus, a doppelganger exploring alternative pasts for the author. Taken together, these poems chart a dazzling constellation of experiences.

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  Golden Days of good Queen Bess

  Sir John Comyns Carr

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Parody on "The Golden Days of good Queen Bess" by Sir John Carr. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 15th, 2009.

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  Oils

  Stephen Sexton

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  Oils is a gorgeous, beguiling collection of poems where the poise of the delivery belies the emotional, existential turmoil within.
  Through his portraits of an atheist, a pickpocket and a spinach-loving sailor (among others), Stephen Sexton evokes a strange kind of melancholy as he strives to reconcile passion with detachment and profound self-doubt with unwavering love.

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  Boats on a River

  Julie Marie Myatt

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  American expatriate Sidney Webb and Sister Margaret, his British colleague, work tirelessly to rehabilitate Cambodian children from the nightmare of prostitution.  After a surprise raid on a brothel, an eager young U.S. lawyer places three liberated orphans under Sidney and the Sister’s care.  The girls begin the inspirational process of recovery under the loving watch of their new protectors.   An excitingly original script by an emerging American playwright.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Samantha Abrigo, John Cabrera, Gregory Itzin, Jane Le, Amy Sara Lim, Emily Liu, William Mapother, Jenny O'Hara, Michelle Ongkingco, Elizabeth Pan and Keo Woolford.

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  The Divine Sister

  Charles Busch

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  A crumbling convent school is on the verge of insolvency, when a young postulant begins to display strange heavenly powers. And when a dashing film executive arrives to buy the rights to her story, the Reverend Mother refuses to put profits over prayer. Playwright Charles Busch made his name with genre-skewering hits like Psycho Beach Party, Die Mommie Die, and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, which L.A. Theatre Works recorded in 2007. This time around, we present Busch’s high-voltage spoof of religious melodramas, starring three of the principal players from its original 2010 Off-Broadway run. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Emily Bergl as AgnesCharles Busch as Mother SuperiorMaxwell Caulfield as Jeremy/Brother VeneriusAlison Fraser as Sister Walburga/Mrs. MacDuffieJulie Halston as Sister AcaciusJuliet Mills Mrs. Levinson/TimothyDirected by Carl Andress. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.

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  The Silver Poets

  Michael Drayton, Sir Philip...

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  Poetry has over the centuries grouped poets or poems into many different themes and movements. 
   
  Amongst its most unusual movements are the English wordsmiths, The Silver Poets. 
   
  This select band lived during the sixteenth century reign of Queen Elizabeth 1st.  Amongst their storied ranks were Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Davies, Michael Drayton and Mary Sidney (Herbert), the Countess of Pembroke. 
   
  The theme The Silver Poets most often took to their pens was Love. Their offerings on the subject came in many poetic forms from the beginning of the English renaissance till the end of the Elizabethan Age.  In this regard it broke with previous approaches and re-identified this complex emotion in new ways. 
   
  Allied to this these poets spoke on many subjects, including faith and politics, in new ways against a background of a century riven by religious conflicts as it turned from the suffocating and corrupt Catholic faith to welcome, and at times reject, the purer form of Protestantism. Across Europe new ideas brought turmoil, the threat of invasion, new expressions of art and many other elements to these shores. 
   
  It was also an age when England began to confidently survey the horizon and look to a future that promised much, including a golden age of literature, and fleets venturing overseas in search of trade, dominions and ideas. 
  1 - The Silver Poets - An Introduction 
  2 - My Lute Awake by Sir Thomas Wyatt 
  3 - They Flee From Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt 
  4 - And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus by Sir Thomas Wyatt 
  5 - The Forsaken Lover Consoleth Himself With Rememberances of Past Happiness by Sir Thomas Wyatt 
  6 - Farewell Love and All Thy Laws Forever by Sir Thomas Wyatt 
  7 - A Satire Against the Citizens of London by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 
  8 - London Hast Thou Accursed Me by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 
  9 - The Fraility and Hurtfulness of Beauty by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 
  10 - Life by Sir Walter Raleigh 
  11 - My Last Will by Sir Walter Raleigh 
  12 - Farewell To The Court by Sir Walter Raleigh 
  13 - My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His by Sir Phillip Sidney 
  14 - Ode by Sir Philip Sidney 
  15 - Sonnet I from Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney 
  16 - Leave Me O Love by Sir Philip Sidney 
  17 - The Smokes of Melancholy by Sir Philip Sidney 
  18 - The Doleful Lay of Clorinda by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke 
  19 - O by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke 
  20 - O Lord in Me There Lieth Naught by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke 
  21 - To My Most Dearly Beloved Friend by Michael Drayton 
  22 - To His Coy Love by Michael Drayton 
  23 - The Ballad Of Agincourt by Michael Drayton 
  24 - Glastonbury from Poly-Olbion by Michael Drayton  
  25 - Woodstock. Rosamond to King Henry by Michael Drayton 
  26 - Sonnet I by Sir John Davies 
  27 - A Lover Out of Fashion by Sir John Davies 
  28 - Man by Sir John Davies

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