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  Venus and Adonis - One of the...

  William Shakespeare

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  Despite William Shakespeare being regarded as the most significant figure in the Western literary canon, relatively little is known about his early life and his later ‘lost years’.  Even the exact date of his birth is uncertain. 23rd April generally accepted to be the date of his birth, could be a scholarly mistake amplified by the coincidence of it also being the date of his death.  
   
  What is known for certain is that Shakespeare was born to middle class, but probably illiterate parents, John and Mary, in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1565 and baptised there on the 26th April.  He was the third of eight children and the first and eldest surviving son of the remaining five.  
   
  It’s assumed he attended, King’s New School the nearby grammar school, but no records from the time still exist.  However, information on the standardised curriculum that did exist, introduced the young Shakespeare to the disciplines of mathematics, Greek, law, classical history and Latin which greatly influenced his writing. 
   
  At 18, in some haste, he married Anne Hathaway, his senior by 8 years and pregnant with their first child Susanna who was to be followed by the twins, Hamnet and Judith.   Little else is known until in 1590 Shakespeare probably comes to London as by 1592 he becomes relatively well known – first as an actor and then, of course, as a playwright despite some early criticism for having a writing style of his better educated contemporaries and not of his own lower status.  
   
  His iconic status now spans global literature and stems directly from the magnitude of his plays, both tragedies and comedies, and his poetry which is often cited as some of the greatest love poetry ever written.  His legacy endures despite the passing of centuries. 
   
  William Shakespeare died at Stratford-upon-Avon on the April 23rd, 1616.  He was 52.

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  Now You Care

  Di Brandt

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  Nominated for a Griffin Poetry Prize
   
  In Now You Care, her fifth collection of poetry, Di Brandt voices a passionate argument against environmental degradation and a plea for psychic transformation in our violent times. Tuned in to the toxic fallout of over-industrialization and war, these poems face the dark side of our postmodern climate with a language that doesn't give in. They tremble and shake,they rage against despair, they speak against death and wrestle with the fateful spirits of Armageddon to loosen their choke-hold on humanity. Perhaps we won't figure it out and the horizon is already on fire, and our best love will never be more than an approximation of regret, but grass still grows between the cement blocks of the sidewalk to 'grin of the wild.'

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  The Dust of Everyday Life - An...

  Jana Harris

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  Spanning the years 1853–1933—beginning with conveyance by oxcart and ending with air travel—this series of dramatic monologues tells the story of Helen Walsh and Thomas Hodgson, whose families trekked the trails of the great migration to the West. Helen and Thomas get married, and together, tame the remote corners of the wilderness by means of their imperishable love and a clear, well-beaten path.

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  Cafe Daughter

  Kenneth T. Williams

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  Café Daughter  is a one-woman drama inspired by a true story about a Chinese-Cree girl growing up in Saskatchewan in the 1950s and 60s. 
  Charlie Wong emigrated from China to rural Saskatchewan, where he opened a restaurant. But provincial law prevented Charlie from hiring white women to work for him. Katherine, a young Cree woman from a nearby reserve, took a job at the café. In time, the two fell in love, married, and had a daughter—Yvette. 
  The story begins in 1957, as nine-year-old Yvette Wong helps out in her parents’ café in Alistair, Saskatchewan. She’s incredibly bright but has been placed in the slow learners’ class because of her skin colour. Her mother Katherine, who was forced to attend a residential school, is conflicted about her identity and has charged Yvette with a secret—to never tell anyone she’s part Cree. Yvette has dreams that her mother nourishes, but when Katherine dies and Yvette and her father move to Saskatoon, Yvette must try to pursue her dreams alone, carving a path uniquely her own.

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  Joy Is So Exhausting

  Susan Holbrook

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  Joyfully melding knowing humour and torqued-up wordplay, Holbrook’s second collection is a comic fusion of the experimental and the experiential, the procedural and the lyric. Punch lines become sucker punches, line breaks slip into breakdowns, the serious plays comical and the comical turns deadly serious. Holbrook's poems don’t use humour as much as they deconstruct the comic impulse, exposing its roots in the political, the psychological and the emotional life of the mind. Many of these poems import shapes and source texts from elsewhere – home inspection reports, tampon instructions, poems by Lorca – in a series of translations, transpositions and transgressions that invite a more intimate and critical rapport with the written word. This is not merely a book, it is a chocolate-covered artificially intelligent virus with an impish sense of humour that will continue to replicate in your mind long after initial exposure.

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  50 Shades of a Broken Heart -...

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

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  The beating heart, the drumbeat, the very force of life.  What then when we say ‘it breaks’? ‘I’m heart-broken’? Few of us escape a life without some measure of heartache and the pain it causes.   
   
  In this volume we give full rein to our classic poets across the centuries from Shakespeare and Aphra Behn to Rupert Brooke, Edna St Vincent Millay, A E Housman and continue through Radclyffe Hall, Emily Dickinson and Oscar Wilde. 
   
  It is a journey through feelings, thoughts and expressions in words that we instantly understand, claim as our own and yet reveal other layers, other avenues of thought. 
   
  Whether to soothe the soul, to reconcile with a different perhaps fractured reality, and come to terms with dejection, rejection or vent with bitterness, rage and seek revenge, our poets have words and lines of verse to help balm, repair and better understand these emotional times. 
   
  01 - 50 Shades of a Broken Heart - An Introduction 
  02 - Ebb by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  03 - Heart We Will Forget Him by Emily Dickinson- 
  04 - I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling 
  05 - Loves Lies Bleeding by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  06 - My Own Heart, Let Me Have More, Have Pity by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  07 - They Flee From Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt 
  08 - The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by John Bodenham 
  09 - Love Arm'd by Aphra Behn 
  10 - A Shropshire Lad LIV - With Rue My Heart is Laden by A.E. Housman 
  11 - A Poor Torn Heart, a Tattered Heart by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Proctor 
  13 - A Careless Heart by Isaac Rosenberg 
  17 - My Heart is Lame by Charlotte Mew 
  15 - A Fallen Leaf by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  16 - Helas! by Oscar Wilde 
  17 - A Pause of Thought by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  18 - A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy 
  19 - The Last Betrayal by Edith Nesbit 
  20 - Greater Love by Wilfred Owen 
  21 - In the Tavern of My Heart by Willa Cather 
  22 - Hearts First Word I by Isaac Rosenberg 
  23 - I Have Loved Flowers That Fade by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  24 - I So Like Spring by Charlotte Mew 
  25 - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  64 - Renouncement by Alice Meynell 
  27 - A Shropshire Lad XXXIII - If Truth in Hearts That Perish by A.E. Housman 
  28 - The Forsaken Lover Consoleth Himself With Rememberance of Past Happiness by Sir Thomas Wyatt 
  29 - Sonnet 139 - O! Call Not Me to Justify the Wrong by William Shakespeare 
  06 - Love and Folly by Charlotte Smith 
  31 - No One So Much As You by Edward Thomas 
  32 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing by William Shakespeare 
  33 - Love's Farewell by Michael Drayton 
  34 - The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley 
  35 - Jilted by Radclyffe Hall 
  36 - Jealously by Rupert Brooke 
  09 - Love and Hate by Elizabeth Siddal 
  38 - Amour XXX Three Sorts of Serpents Do Resemble Thee by Michael Drayton 
  28 - Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  40 - Modern Love II by George Meredith 
  41 - To the Ladies by Lady Mary Chudleigh 
  42 - Divorce by Anna Wickham 
  10 - Dead Love by Elizabeth Siddal 
  44 - Modern Love I by George Meredith 
  45 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron 
  46 - We Parted in Silence by Isabella Valancy Crawford 
  47 - Sailing Beyond Seas by Jean Ingelow 
  48 - If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 
  49 - I Shall Not Care by Sara Teasdale 
  50 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke 
  51 - He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead by W B Yeats

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