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  A-Typical Rainbow (NHB Modern...

  JJ Green

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  An imaginative child's glorious fantasies – of dolphins and dragonflies, gingerbread houses and chocolate rivers – offer him an escape from hostile reality.
  When reality dictates he has to conform to the 'real world', he has to make a choice. Should he live authentically and risk stigma, or can he continue to hide?
  Based on real events from the perspective of the writer and the autistic community, JJ Green's A-Typical Rainbow is an uplifting play about the experience of growing up neurodivergent and queer in early 2000s Britain.
  It premiered at London's Turbine Theatre in June 2022, produced by Aria Entertainment, directed by Bronagh Lagan, and starring playwright JJ Green, who is a passionate advocate for autistic artists like himself.
  This edition includes the full text of the play along with testimonies about working in the theatre industry by the largely – and proudly – neurodivergent creative team.

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  Boat

  Lisa Robertson

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  From the author of The Baudelaire Fractal, a poetry classic, with new work
  		 
  In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau’s Boat, poems culled from years of notebooks that are, nevertheless, by no means autobiographical. In 2010, she expanded the work into a full-length book, R’s Boat. During the pandemic, she was drawn back into decades of journals to shape Boat. These poems bring fresh vehemence to Robertson’s ongoing examination of the changing shape of feminism, the male-dominated philosophical tradition, the daily forms of discourse, and the possibilities of language itself.

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  Even the Milky Way is Undocumented

  Amy Shimshon-Santo

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  Amy Shimshon-Santo's EVEN THE MILKY WAY IS UNDOCUMENTED is a testament to the lost, the loved, the courageous. Each poem is the past and the future. Each page turns for those built by families that span political borders -- families that see borders as nothing more than lines drawn by an invisible hand that's long forgotten that we belong to the earth and not the other way around.

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  Goddess Muscle

  Karlo Mila

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  This long-awaited poetry collection from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila spans work written over a decade. The poems are both personal and political. They trace the effect of defining issues such as racism, poverty, violence, climate change and power on Pasifika peoples, Aotearoa and beyond. They also focus on the internal and micro issues – the ending of a marriage, the hope of new relationships, and the daily politics of being a partner, woman and mother. The collection meditates on love and relationships and explores identity, culture, community and belonging with a voice that does not shy away from the difficult.

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  A Peter Piper's Practical...

  Anonymous Anonymous

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of A Selection from Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by Anonymous. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 20, 2011.'Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation' contains the famous 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper's' tongue twister, although this twister was tripping tongues for many years before it first appeared in print. The book also contains a tongue twister of a similar style for every letter of the alphabet. This selection contains the verses for C, F and K. (Summary by Lucy Perry)

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  The Poetry of Dreams - The...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  ‘Perchance to dream’ is an offer that most of us would accept in the blink of an eye.  That mysterious ‘other world’ where the day’s reality is processed by our subconscious, really is a mystery, even to the experts and self-help books who decipher our beguiling imaginings with all sorts of reasonings.  Perhaps the better truth is that most of us don’t remember much about our dreams, unlike its near neighbour the nightmare!  Day-dreams too fall into a fantasy imagining where we try to re-route the natural course of events as we move from one emotion to another. 
   
  Our unconscious dreams seem essential for our mental and emotional well-being and some believe they provide solutions, answers and prophesize important events.  In the conscious world we use the word to describe our goals, desires and wishes which reveal much about who we are and our chosen path for life.   
   
  Whatever their significance may or may not be, they are universal and a subject on which our poets have much to say. 
   
  With such a rich seam to mine, our poets from Sarojini Naidu to Lewis Carroll, Edna St Vincent Millay to Shakespeare by way of Antonio Machado and Longfellow and a host of others provide a pillowful of poems that will set you dreaming. 
   
  01 - The Poetry of Dreams - An Introduction 
  02 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats 
  03 - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe 
  04 - The Dream by John Donne 
  05 - The Dream by Amy Levy 
  06 - Ay, Workman, Make Me A Dream by Stephen Crane 
  07 - House of Dreams by Sara Teasdale 
  08 - My Darling Dear, My Daisy Flower by John Skelton 
  09 - Roses of a Dream by Damon Runyon 
  10 - A Ballad of Dreamland by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  11 - Longing by Matthew Arnold 
  12 - The Dream by Alexander Pushkin 
  13 - A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe 
  14 - The Dream by Aphra Behn 
  15 - Love by Rupert Brooke 
  16 - This Faulted Dream by Daniel Sheehan 
  17 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing by William Shakespeare 
  18 - The Dream Called Life by Pedro Calderon de la Barca 
  19 - Dream Fable by Rabia al Basri 
  82 - Under the April Moon by Bliss William Carman 
  21 - Song of a Dream by Sarojini Naidu 
  22 - A Midday Dreamer by James Weldon Johnson 
  23 - Dreams Old by D H Lawrence 
  24 - A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky (Life Is But a Dream) by Lewis Carroll 
  25 - Dream Town by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  26 - A Little Boy's Dream by Katherine Mansfield 
  27 - The Opal Dream Cave by Katherine Mansfeild 
  28 - Dreams by John Dryden 
  29 - Life Tells the Dreamer by Margaret Widdemer 
  30 - Dreams by Anne Bronte 
  31 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  32 - My Dead Dream by Sarojini Naidu 
  33 - Dreams by Edgar Allen Poe 
  34 - I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark Not Day by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  35 - I Go on Dreaming of Paths by Antonio Machado 
  36 - Dreamland by Edgar Allen Poe 
  37 - I Dream'd I Lay by Robert Burns 
  38 - A Dream Lies Dead by Dorothy Parker 
  39 - Harlem by Langston Hughes 
  40 - Forgotten Dreams by Edward Silvera 
  41 - Boaz Asleep by Victor Hugo 
  42 - A Dream of Glory by Albery Allson Whitman 
  43 - I Rose From Dreamless Hours by James Elroy Flecker 
  44 - From Dewy Dreams, My Soul Arise by James Joyce 
  45 - Dream Variation by Langston Hughes 
  46 - Dreams by Robert Tannahill 
  47 - Dreams by Robert Herrick 
  48 - Dream Pediary by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 
  49 - Dreamland by Christina Rossetti 
  50 - A Nocturnal Reverie by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 
  51 - Dreams and Duty by Tom Kettle 
  52 - Last Night I Dreamed by Hafiz 
  53 - Musselman's Dream by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 
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