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  Short Poetry Collection 133

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2014.

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  Hail the Invisible Watchman

  Alexandra Oliver

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  Hail, The Invisible Watchman is haunted poetry—Oliver’s formal schemes are as tidy as a picket-fence and as suggestive; behind the charm of rhyme is a vibrant, dark exploration of domestic and social alienation.
  		 
  The poems in Hail, the Invisible Watchman are as tidy as a picket-fence—and as suggestive. Behind the charms of iambs lurks a dark exploration of domestic and social alienation. Metered rhyme sets the tone like a chilling piano score as insidiousness creeps into the neighbourhood. A spectral narrator surveils social gatherings in the town of Sherbet Lake; community members chime in, each revealing their various troubles and hypocrisies; an eerie reimagining of an Ethel Wilson novel follows a young woman into a taboo friendship with an enigmatic divorcée. In taut poetic structures across three succinct sections, Alexandra Oliver’s conflation of the mundane and the phantasmagoric produces a scintillating portrait of the suburban uncanny.

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  The Witness (NHB Modern Plays)

  Vivienne Franzmann

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  A dark and penetrating thriller of modern morals, by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Mogadishu.
  Captured in an award-winning shot, Alex was rescued from Rwanda and adopted by the man behind the lens. Years later, she's back from university, returning to the Hampstead home in which she was raised. As a long-hidden secret is exposed, the distance between father and daughter stretches taut.
  The Witness premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2012.
  'powerful, original and deeply moving' Telegraph
  'a marvellous piece of writing, delivered with quiet intensity and not an atom overdone' Financial Times
  'if there is a finer new play than The Witness this year, I'll be astonished' Evening Standard

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  Mrs G

  Mike Tibbetts

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  An unkempt man sits in a dingy and extremely untidy bedsit room. A half brick crashes through his window. Unsurprised, the man resignedly attempts to clear up the broken glass, succeeding only in cutting his hand. A knock at his door is unwelcome but persistent so he opens it to admit the bustling Mrs. G. who announces herself as the local cleaning lady. She saw the brick-throwing incident and wanted to know if the man was injured. Over the course of the audio drama Mrs. G. sets about clearing up the man’s flat and does her best to clear up his life, too. Tidying the flat is one thing, but bringing her idea of order to the man’s situation and thinking proves far more complex, despite her best efforts. Ultimately, for what she sees as the good of all concerned, she applies the final cleaning solution to the situation. After all, if you don’t deal with it effectively, dirt spreads.

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  Somehow

  Helen Calcutt

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  In September 2017, Helen Calcutt's brother Matthew took his own life. He was 40 years old.
  '… the phone rang / and when I answered it / you'd killed / yourself, and that was the start / of you being dead.'
  This is the starting point of an astonishing new pamphlet of poems by Helen Calcutt. At times harrowing; at others hopeful – always deeply felt and beautifully realised. These poems display the poise and precision of a poet already at the height of her powers, writing the un-writable, weaving the terrible into something relatable and filled with the light of understanding.
  How do we survive the tumultuous presence of grief? How does the trauma of losing a loved one to suicide affect, our identity, our creativity, and our ability to love? How – in a world shattered by incomparable change and severe loss – do we build a life from the wreckage? Because we do.
  Somehow, we do.

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  Ghosts (version 2)

  Henrik Ibsen

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  A Family-drama in three acts. Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th century morality. (Summary by Kristingj) 
   
  Cast:Mrs. Helen Alving, widow of Captain Alving: Rhonda FedermanOswald Alving, her son, a painter: Chris MarcellusPastor Manders: Algy PugJacob Engstrand, a carpenter: John TrevithickRegine Engstrand, Mrs. Alving's maid: KristingjNarrator: Amanda Friday

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