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  Songbook - The Lyrics and Music...

  Steven Heighton

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  From the award-winning, multi-genre author and musician Steven Heighton, Songbook brings together Heighton’s lyrics and music for the first time in a single volume, including his final songs, which have never been heard or seen until now. When Steven Heighton died suddenly of cancer in 2022, he was in the middle of an intensely creative period of songwriting. He released his first album of original material, The Devil’s Share, in 2021 and was preparing to record his second album. Known first as a poet, Heighton had always held that “music and poetry are two words for the same thing.”
  		 
  As in his songwriting, in Songbook, Heighton moves fluidly between genres and subjects, from political songs like “The Butcher’s Bill,” about the carelessness of nations sending their youth to war, to reimagining the myth of Orpheus (“I'll hold my breath the whole way down / And find your soul in the undertown”), to blues tunes like “Last Living Woman Alive,” and a tribute to the late John Prine, the “Buddha of Song.” With chords accompanying the lyrics, readers and musicians have the ability to bring the songs to life with their own interpretations. The music in Songbook was the final work of Heighton’s life, and it is not only a gift to have his lyrics and chords but an invitation from Heighton himself, challenging his readers to answer the call and keep singing along.

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  Notes on Burials

  Jayant Kashyap

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  Winner of the 2024 New Poets Prize, judged by Holly Hopkins.
  An archaeological dig, a visit to an imagined London, puppies that come back from the dead. In Notes on Burials, Jayant Kashyap makes a series of journeys: real, mythological and etymological as he navigates what is lost and what is buried. Kashyap's poems of love and remembrance reach out to collective losses, human and environmental, in a series of disappearing acts and excavations that take us from broken childhood patio to a snowboarder in an avalanche.

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  The Merry Wives of Windsor

  William Shakespeare

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  First published in 1602 by William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor features the popular figure Sir John Falstaff, who first appeared in Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2. Some speculate that Merry Wives was written at the behest of Queen Elizabeth I, who wanted to see Falstaff in love; and that Shakespeare was forced to rush its creation as a result, and so it remains one of Shakespeare's lesser-regarded plays.
  The play revolves around two intertwined plots: the adventures of the rogue Falstaff who plans to seduce several local wives, and the story of young Anne Page who is being wooed by prominent citizens while she has her sights set on young Fenton. The wives come together to teach Falstaff a lesson, and in the end love triumphs.
  The Merry Wives of Windsor is believed to have been first performed in 1597 and was subsequently published in quarto in 1602, in a second quarto in 1619, and then in the 1623 First Folio. Despite holding a lesser place in Shakespeare's canon, it was one of the first Shakespearean plays to be performed in 1660, after the reinstatement of Charles II and theatre once again was permitted to be performed in London.

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  Very Close to Pleasure There's a...

  Shakti Chattopadhyay

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  In the early 1960s, the Hungry Generation revitalized Bengali poetry in Calcutta, liberating it from the fetters of scholarship and the fog of punditry and freeing it to explore new forms, language, and subjects. Shakti Chattopadhyay was a cofounder of the movement, and his poems remain vibrant and surprising more than a half century later. In his 'urban pastoral' lines, we encounter street colloquialisms alongside high diction, a combination that at the time was unprecedented. Loneliness, anxiety, and dislocation trouble this verse, but they are balanced by a compelling belief in the redemptive power of beauty.
  
  This book presents more than one hundred of Chattopadhyay's poems, introducing an international audience to one of the most prominent and important Bengali poets of the twentieth century.

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  Unruly Blood

  Olivia Douglass

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  'the song soil sweat of it knowing nothing ofa binary bondage a bountiful mess of myself everything under the sun is changing all thetime all my skin soft lovers flocking to the river'
  Olivia Douglass' new pamphlet takes us into the shape-shifting experiences of young selfhood, family and what it means to be between worlds. Douglass' poetry is like a strong shot of the good stuff, an irresistible introduction to this multi-talented artist.
  'The poems of Unruly Blood are careful, dangerous, sparse; full. Each space held within it sings as much as its words do, its every phrase simmers first before spilling over with untold possibility.'  Victoria Adukwei Bulley
  'An artist of the body, in Unruly Blood, Douglass transmits physical sensation to the page with rapturous fluidity. Expressive of the joy and pain of every kind of love, their work sings with exciting originality.' Erica Wagner
  'Olivia Douglass is a new, clear voice and these are deep, intriguing, dangerous poems.' Brian Eno

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  Born in the USA - The New...

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,...

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  1 - Born in the USA - The New England Poets - An Introduction 
  2 - June by Horatio Alger Jr 
  3 - On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, January 14th 1807 by Joel Barlow 
  4 - America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates 
  5 - If You Could Come by Katharine Lee Bates 
  6 - Above the Battle by Katherine Lee Bates 
  7 - Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves by William Stanley Braithwaite 
  8 - A Hymn of the Sea by William Cullen Bryant 
  9 - Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant 
  10 - November by William Cullen Bryant 
  11 - I Would Not Paint a Picture by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - I Have a Bird in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  13 - The Name of it is Autumn by Emily Dickinson 
  14 - Some Too Fragile for Winter Winds by Emily Dickinson 
  15 - I Went to Heaven by Emily Dickinson 
  16 - Credo by W E B Du Bois 
  17 - Teach Me I Am Forgotten by the Dead by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  18 - Waves by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  19 - Culture by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  20 - Berrying by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  21 - Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  22 - Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  23 - The Black Finger by Angelina Weld Grimke 
  24 - The Eyes of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  25 - In the Reading Room of the British Museum by Louise Imogen Guiney 
  26 - Address to the Moon by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  27 - The Ocean by Nathamiel Hawthorne 
  28 - Go to the Grave by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  29 - The Old Man of the Sea by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  30 - Prologue by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  31 - Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  32 - A Calender of Sonnets - December by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  33 - A Calender of Sonnets - January by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  34 - A Calendar of Sonnets - September by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  35 - Octobers Bright Blue Weather by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  36 - In London Town by Walter Learned 
  37 - The Slave's Singing at Midnight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  38 - Song of Haiwatha (Extract) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  39 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  40 - Loss and Gain by Henry Wadswoth Longfellow 
  41 - A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  42 - Despair by H P Lovecraft 
  43 - Sunset by H P Lovecraft 
  44 - Ode for July 4th 1917 by H P Lovecraft 
  45 - Pacifist War Song - 1917 by H P Lovecraft 
  46 - Providence by H P Lovecraft 
  47 - In a Garden by Amy Lowell 
  48 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell 
  49 - Monadnock in Early Spring by Amy Lowell 
  50 - The Crescent Moon by Amy Lowell 
  51 - March Evening by Amy Lowell 
  52 - The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell 
  53 - Above and Below by James Russell Lowell 
  54 - Of the Dawn of Freedom by James Russell Lowell 
  55 - To H W L on His Birthday 27th February 1867 by James Russell Lowell 
  56 - Slaves by James Russell Lowell 
  57 - The Red Cross Nurses by Thomas L Masson 
  58 - A December Day by Robert Fuller Murray 
  59 - Warren's Address by John Pierpoint 
  60 - The Economy of Slavery by John Pierpoint 
  61 - Hymn for the First of August by John Pierpoint 
  62 - Prayer for the Slave by John Pierpoint 
  63 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato 
  64 - Reflections, Written on Visiting the Grave of a Venerated Friend by Ann Plato 
  65 - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe 
  66 - Dreamland by Edgar Allan Poe 
  67 - The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe 
  68 - Sonnet - Silence by Edgar Allan Poe 
  69 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe 
  70 - Luke Havergal by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  71 - Mr Flood's Party by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  72 - The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  73 - The Flying Dutchman by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  74 - In No

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