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  The Poetry of Harold Munro

  Harold Munro

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  Harold Edward Munro was born on the 14th of March 1879 at 137 chaussée de Charleroi, Saint-Gilles, Brussels. 
   
  He was educated at Radley College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. On 2nd December 1903 in Ireland Munro married Dorothy Elizabeth Browne. Unfortunately the marriage was not to last and they separated in 1908.   
   
  In 1906 his first collection of poetry, Poems, was published.  Many volumes followed but Munro was never regarded as highly as his contemporaries.  Perhaps his forays into magazines, editing and publishing and his bookshop has unfairly diminished his poetic contribution. 
   
  In 1912 he became the editor of the influential magazine, The Poetry Review, but was ousted after a year. In 1913 he founded the Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury.  From here he would also publish new volumes of poetry by himself and other writers.  With Edward Marsh he published annual volumes of Georgian Poetry in the process establishing it as a very fine poetry movement.   
   
  Munro was often tortured by his sexuality and although he married twice some of his poems reveal his truer feelings.  As the Great War smothered Europe with its monstrous destruction of a generation, the War Poets spoke. 
   
  Munro himself wrote only a few war poems but his ‘Youth in Arms’ quartet, written in the first months of the carnage, was an early attempt to explore the human psychology of soldiering and to understand how ungrudgingly youth dies. 
   
  After the war Munro continued his efforts with the Poetry Bookshop and expanded into several new projects.  He was searching both as a writer, and as a publisher, for the middle ground that was both culturally exciting and commercially worthwhile. 
   
  In his later years his mood darkened, his drinking escalated and became a real problem.  Sadly amongst the stresses and the strains he contracted tuberculosis.  
   
  Harold Edward Munro died on the 16th March 1932 aged 53.  He was cremated at Golders Green crematorium. 
   
  It was later remarked of him ‘Perhaps no one did more for the advancement of twentieth-century poetry’.

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  Holloway Jones (NHB Modern Plays)

  Evan Placey

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  Holloway dreams of being a world-class BMXer, but she is held back by the tough reality of a parent in prison.
  Evan Placey's play Holloway Jones was commissioned by Synergy Theatre Project, toured schools and the Unicorn Theatre in 2011, and won the 2012 Brian Way Award for Best Play for Young People.

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  Richard II (Argo Classics)

  William Shakespeare

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  William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. 
  ‘Bear you well in this new spring of time, 
  Lest you be cropp'd before you come to prime.’ 
  King Richard II rules England in a wasteful and short-sighted way, spending money unwisely and selecting his counselors foolishly. His manner ostracises him from his people and his country and it’s not long before both commoners and noblemen feel Richard has gone too far. 
  When Richard seizes land that rightfully belongs to his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke retaliates by invading England while Richard is at war in Ireland. More popular with the commoners, Henry is eventually crowned King Henry IV. 
  All of the Shakespeare plays within the ARGO Classics catalogue are performed by the Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players. The Marlowe was founded in 1907 with a mission to focus on effective delivery of verse, respect the integrity of texts, and rescue neglected plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and the less performed plays of Shakespeare himself. The Marlowe has performed annually at Cambridge Arts Theatre since its opening in 1936 and continues to produce some of the finest actors of their generations. 
  Thurston Dart, Professor of Music at London University and a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge, directed the music for this production. 
  The full cast includes: Richard Pasco; William Devlin; Cyril Luckham; Timothy West; Roy Spencer; John Shrapnel; Peter Jeffrey; Sidney Bromley; George Rylands; Gary Watson; Peter Orr; David King; Gordon Gardner; Harvey Hall; Denis McCarthy; Frank Duncan; Dudley Jones; Barbara Leigh-Hunt; Beatrix Lehmann; Peter Woodthorpe; Clive Swift; Alaric Cotter; Norman Mitchell. 
  This rendition of Richard II by William Shakespeare, performed by the Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players, is a top performing production in the realm of European theatre. The best of Shakespeare's lesser-known works, it is a testament to the enduring power of his storytelling. 
  For fans of Richard Parsons (GCSE English Shakespeare Text Guide), and Arthur Miller (Incident at Vichy).

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  Cage of Lit Glass

  Charles Kell

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  The debut poetry collection of Charles Kell, Cage of Lit Glass engages themes of death, incarceration, and family through a range of physical, emotional, and philosophical spaces. In startling images of beauty and violence, Kell creates a haunting world that mirrors our individual and cultural fears. Boldly engaging with the absurdity, strain, and horrors of life, Kell’s poems expand upon the lineage of writers such as Kafka, Beckett, and Rimbaud. Cage of Lit Glass follows multiple individuals and points of view, all haunted by various states of unease and struggle that follow them like specters as they navigate their world. Kell’s poems form blurred narratives and playful experiments from our attempts to build lives from despair. A tense and insightful collection, these works will follow the reader long after the book is finished. 

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  Paul and Vincent

  David P. Reiter

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  Based on Gauguin’s reflections of his stormy relationship with Vincent at Arles, France, this audio production brings the personalities of the two artists alive. Based on the extracts from the book Letters We Never Sent by David P. Reiter and the source for the ABC PoeticA production.

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  vvlna - A Black Earth Tale of...

  William Pauley III, Joseph...

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  Brushing away dust and dirt and sand and grit, the towering penumbra men stagger, drift, and wonder of the dark earth that surrounds them. These gods of an ancient world are simple men staring at a nothing moon struggling to invent a word to describe such darkness. The penumbra once had a word for the sun, VVLNA, but in this strange world, this black earth, there seems no use for it. And Father Jackal... every trace has vanished. The penumbra wonder if indeed they are alone here. In the distance stands The House of Wolves. There they will find answers. Some wish for food. Some wish for God. Only one will see the light.

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