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  As the Sky Begins to Change - Poems

  Kim Stafford

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  In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, quoted in the New York Times, posted online in the Academy of American Poets poem-a-day series, gathered in a chapbook sold to benefit Ukrainian refugees, posted online in response to Supreme Court decisions, composed for a painter’s gallery opening, and in other ways engaged a world at war with itself, testifying for the human project hungry for kinship, exiled from bounty, and otherwise thirsting for the oxygen of healing song.

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  Noughts & Crosses

  Malorie Blackman

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  An electrifying, bittersweet love story with echoes of Romeo and Juliet, set in a society divided by racial bigotry and a world rocked by terrorism. Adapted from Malorie Blackman's best-selling novels.
  Sephy (a Cross) is the daughter of the Deputy Prime Minister. Callum is the son of a Nought agitator. United by a shared sense of injustice as children, and separated by intolerance as they grow up, their desire to be together begins to eclipse all family loyalty – sparking a political crisis of unimaginable proportions.
  'I wanted to turn society as we know it on its head, with new names for the major divisions, i.e. Noughts (the underclass) and Crosses (the majority, ruling society)' - Malorie Blackman
  Dominic Cooke's adaptation of Noughts & Crosses was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2007.

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  The Crown Jewels (NHB Modern Plays)

  Simon Nye

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  It's 1671, and the charismatic and unpredictable Colonel Blood is planning the greatest heist of all time: stealing – in plain sight – the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
  With an audacious plan and a gang of misfits by his side, can he possibly pull it off? And is King Charles II in any mood to have his crown jewels handled?
  Based on the scarcely believable true story, Simon Nye's play The Crown Jewels is a riotous and uproarious royal affair. It opened at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End in 2023 before touring, and was directed by Sean Foley with a star-studded cast including Al Murray, Mel Giedroyc, Carrie Hope Fletcher, Aidan McArdle, Neil Morrissey, Joe Thomas and Tanvi Virmani.
  It will appeal to any amateur theatre company – monarchists and republicans alike – who want to get their hands on a royally funny caper to perform.

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  Sea Things

  Hassan Abdulrazzak

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  A bold and startling comic thriller about climate crisis, conspiracy, and what lurks beneath the waves… 
  It's 2050 and, due to the rising sea level, a small coastal town in Britain is now underwater. Some of the town's inhabitants have taken shelter in a manor house, which has been converted into a camp for climate-change refugees. It's run by Maxscore, a shady private company.
  As they face power cuts, food scarcity and blackmail, the camp inmates start to realise that people are mysteriously disappearing. A strange force has been unleashed and is set to destroy them. Can they stop it before it's too late?
  Hassan Abdulrazzak's play Sea Things was first performed at Southwark Playhouse, London, in a production by Oxford School of Drama.
  The Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series features large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to young people. For more information, visit www.multiplaydrama.co.uk.

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  Dear Life

  Maya C. Popa

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  Exciting, accomplished, and shimmering with ideas, Dear Life is the work of an exceptional talent. Together as never before, such figures as Larkin, Galileo and Milton, Turgenev and Willie Nelson help the poet explore, explain and address life as it is lived in the 21st Century.

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  The Poetry of Edna St Vincent...

  Edna St Vincent Millay

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  Elinor Morton Hoyt was born on 7th September, 1885 in Somerville, New Jersey and from age 12 grew up in Washington D C where her father served as assistant attorney general and later solicitor general.  Her early education together with her renowned beauty suggests she was being trained for life as a debutante but her life quickly found another route as she became absorbed in the world of books. 
   
  An early marriage following her graduation ended when, after being pursued by Horace Wylie, 17 years her senior and a married Washington lawyer with three children, she eloped to England with him.  His wife would not divorce him and the subsequent scandal was widely publicised further fueled by the suicide in 1912 of her abandoned husband. 
   
  With Wylie's encouragement she published in 1912, ‘Incidental Number’, assembled from poems of the previous decade. 
   
  Despite a child from her first marriage Elinor subsequently endured miscarriages, a stillbirth and a premature child who lived for only one week.  When Wylie’s deserted wife agreed to a divorce, the couple returned to the United States and married but they were already drawing apart. 
   
  In 1921, Elinor’s ‘Nets to Catch the Wind’, was published. It was an immediate success and a prize-winner.  In New York’s literary circles she found her next husband who acted as her agent – the poer William Rose Benét, brother of the famed Stephen. They married in 1923 and that same year ‘Black Armor’, was published. The New York Times said "There is not a misplaced word or cadence in it."  She also published her first of four novels, ‘Jennifer Lom’, to excellent reviews. 
   
  She worked for a time as the poetry editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of Literary Guild, and a contributing editor of The New Republic.  Her third book of poetry, ‘Trivial Breath’ arrived in 1928 as did the failure of her marriage with Benét.  
   
  She moved again to England and fell in love with a friend’s husband, to whom she wrote, and later published a series of 19 sonnets; ‘Angels and Earthly Creatures’. 
   
  Elinor Wylie suffered high blood pressure all her adult life and this eventually led to her death at Benet’s New York apartment on 16th December, 1928 where she suffered a stroke. She was 43. 
   
  1 - The Poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay - An Introduction 
  2 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  3 - Dirge Without Music by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  4 - Renascence by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  5 - If Still Your Orchards Bear by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  6 - My Heart Being Hungry by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  7 - First Fig by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  8 - Feast by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  9 - Second Fig by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  10 - No Rose That in a Garden Ever Grew by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  11 - Three Songs of Shattering by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  12 - Rosemary by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  13 - I Too Beneath Your Moon by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  14 - Sonnet XLIII - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  15 - Sorrow by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  16 - Departure by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  17 - Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  18 - Journey by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  19 - Mist in the Valley by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  20 - Tavern by Edna St Vinent Millay 
  21 - Exiled by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  22 - A Visit to the Asylum by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  23 - Recuerdo by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  24 - The Philosopher by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  25 - Sonnet XXX -  Love is Not All by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  26 - Sonnet XVIII - I, Being Born a Woman by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  27 - The Betrothal by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  28 - When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Fa

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