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  Living by Troubled Waters

  Roy McFarlane

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  Living by Troubled Waters is the third poetry collection by Roy McFarlane – an extraordinary, uncompromising book exploring slavery, colonialism, and the continued tragedies visited upon Black bodies whilst these legacies remain unresolved. In his close examination of the horror of racialised violence, McFarlane examines how the strong currents of the past and present flow side by side. His poems ask us to think about the Black Mediterranean of today as much as we do about the Windrush scandal and the aftershocks of trans-Atlantic slavery, where Black people are still imprisoned, enslaved and drowned as they flee persecution and poverty.
  Living by Troubled Waters is innovative, formally experimental and far ranging in scope; erasure & inclusion (to make known) poems interweave and speak to the wider body of the collection. In his use of archival documents as a space for activism and linguistic intervention, McFarlane writes back into history, reclaiming voices and reshaping narratives. His poems also draw strength from themes of place and displacement, social justice, Black motherhood, family, art - and from the power of poetry itself as a witness to troubled times.

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  Jesus Hopped the “A” Train

  Stephen Adly Guirgis

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  Angel Cruz is imprisoned at Riker’s Island because he shot the cult leader who brainwashed and stole his friend. Angel meets Lucius, who is awaiting extradition to Florida—where he casually killed eight people while paranoid and high on drugs. Two men who might otherwise never have met are brought together behind bars. Lucius takes his solace in God and Angel thinks he knows what he believes in but finds that he doesn’t. A riveting work from the recipient of the 2006 PEN Literary Award for Drama, which cites Guirgis as “creating a theatre that feels vital, political, intimate and undeniably of the moment”.
  
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
  
  Marco Greco as Charlie d’Amico
  Janel Moloney as Mary Beth Harnahan
  Joe Quintero as Angel Cruz
  Charlie Robinson as Lucius Jenkins
  David Zayas as Valdez
  
  Directed by Richard Masur. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in November of 2006.

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  Noesis - A Poetic Journey into...

  Rob Taylor

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  Noesis takes readers through a transcendent journey into the substratum of our collective consciousness serving as a poetic complement to Rob Taylor’s first book, The Irreducible Primary. In unison, these fifty poems boldly engage contentious spiritual, social, and political conditions commonplace in today’s global community. 
  Rob Taylor’s poetry sharply captures how the widespread absence of spirituality is causative to conditions of child abuse, violence, and failures by government and religion; equally contributing to the apathy, pain, suffering, and despair infecting the human population and threatening any possibility for a harmonious existence within the species. 
  In contrast, many of the poems are inspirational and suggest an alternate course by which we all join in the process of mindfulness and spiritual introspection. We have an immense potential to achieve unconditional love for each other. Peace lives in this place.

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  Animal (NHB Modern Plays)

  Jon Bradfield, Josh Hepple

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  David is gay, disabled and profoundly horny. He can't eat, drink or shower by himself – or wank. Totally inexperienced, he embarks on a sexual and romantic odyssey, armed with a fierce brain, and dick pics that he has to get someone to take.
  Can he keep it casual whilst also relying on round-the-clock care? And will he manage the thrill and uncertainty of random hook-ups after a lifetime of knockbacks?
  Animal is a hilarious, challenging and heartbreaking play by Jon Bradfield, from a story by Bradfield and Josh Hepple. It won the inaugural Through the Mill Playwriting Prize, was shortlisted for the Papatango Prize, and was first performed at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester, and Park Theatre, London, in 2023.

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  Great Poets The: Matthew Arnold

  Matthew Arnold

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  Considered the bridge between romanticism and modernism, Matthew Arnold wrote verse that is simple, unadorned and straightforward. From the hypnotic and beautiful lines of "Dover Beach," to the pastoral narrative of "The Scholar Gipsy," Arnold cast a gaze at the main intellectual issues of the nineteenth century while giving a timeless insight into man and nature. This collection covers his major poetic works, including the narrative poems, sonnets and elegiac poems, illuminating the lyricism and serenity of Arnold’s best poetry.  
   Delivered with verve and passion, Jonathan Keeble’s reading is suffused with an energy found in Arnold’s most moving poetry.  
   Other poems include: Desire Longing A Summer Night Consolation Philomela A Dream East London West London Thyrsis Immortality Growing Old A Wish Bacchanalia; Or, The New Age A Modern Sappho The Hayswater Boat The River Human Life The Buried Life Austerity of Poetry A Farewell Requiescat

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  The Ayah's Secret

  Harry MacLure

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  The Ayah's Secret is written by Harry MacLure and read for you by Pallavi Bharti and Andrew Hoffland.An old Ayah, Indian nanny, is forced to reveal a scandalous and shameful secret about an Anglo-Indian family living in India.Helen, an Anglo-indian divorcee living in England, returns to Chennai, the place of  her birth in India, to find that her father has recently died. Before passing away, he had decided to hide Helen’s younger sister, Laura, who has mental health issues. Helen is determined to find Laura and hopes their long-time family Nanny, the Ayah, will be able to help with the search. But she soon discovers that the wily old Ayah conceals a disturbing secret too scandalous and shameful to reveal. The Ayah weaves a trail of misleading clues and enlists her young grand-daughter, Anjali, to help with the deception, thus making it harder for Helen to find the whereabouts of her missing sister. Helen must employ all her amateur detective skills to reunite with Laura and expose The Ayah’s secret.

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