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  H P Lovecraft - Chapter & Verse...

  HP Lovecraft

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - H P Lovecraft - An Introduction 
  2 - The Lurking Fear by H P Lovecraft 
  3 - Laeta - a Lament by H P Lovecraft 
  4 - Despair by H P Lovecraft 
  5 - The Conscript by H P Lovecraft 
  6 - Nemesis by H P Lovecraft 
  7 - Hallowe'en in a Suburb by H P Lovecraft 
  8 - What the Moon Brings by H P Lovecraft 
  9 - Sunset by H. P. Lovecraft 
  10 - The City by H P Lovecraft 
  11 - Providence by H P Lovecraft 
  12 - The Wood by H P Lovecraft 
  13 - Fact and Fancy by H P Lovecraft 
  14 - The Picture In The House by H P Lovecraft

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  The Crazy Bunch - Penguin Poets

  Willie Perdomo

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  From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era 
    
  Willie Perdomo, a native of East Harlem, has won praise as a hip, playful, historically engaged poet whose restlessly lyrical language mixes “city life with a sense of the transcendent” (NPR.org). In his fourth collection, The Crazy Bunch, Perdomo returns to his beloved neighborhood to create a vivid, kaleidoscopic portrait of a “crew” coming of age in East Harlem at the beginning of the 1990s. In poems written in couplets, vignettes, sketches, riffs, and dialogue, Perdomo recreates a weekend where surviving members of the crew recall a series of tragic events: “That was the summer we all tried to fly. All but one of us succeeded." 
    
  “This immersive poetry collection proceeds like a mixtape or a gnostic gospel … Oracular, intoxicating … Perdomo’s vibrant diction refashions the high lyric, drawing on local cant to render the intimacy of home, friendship, and shared loss. Part rhapsody, part elegy, the book memorializes neighborhood legends, and, even as it impishly indulges nostalgic romance, it never forgets, or forgives, the violence that threatens these young lives.”—The New Yorker 

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  Life Unresolved and Other Short...

  Susan C. Hunter

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  This collection of short, contemporary plays by award-winning playwright Susan C. Hunter provides a wide range of thought-provoking listening. Each play is a stand-alone gem, yet experienced together, they are eloquently connected, often mirroring the humorous and dramatic sides of the same themes. Alternately hilarious and moving, it is read by a full cast of talented narrators.

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  Vital Possessions

  Marc Nair

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  Vital Possessions by Marc Nair contemplates how city-dwellers negotiate their uneasy relationship with nature in a world where growth is both man-made and natural. The jungle is always one trim away from over-running us and we are often oblivious to it. The poems question what we hold as vital amid ceaseless consumption and our urban existence.

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  Top 10 Poets – England The - The...

  Wilfred Owen, A E Housman, Mary...

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
  For centuries England has always had a leading and admired reputation for its poets and poetry.  In this volume we explore those born in the West Midlands who created such revered, enduring and respected verse.

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - Trains - 12...

  Damon Runyon, Walt Whitman,...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  01 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Trains - An Introduction 
  02 - A Song of the Rails by Damon Runyon 
  03 - Song of a Train by John Davidson 
  04 - Song of the Rail by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  05 - To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman 
  06 - Faintheart in a Railway Train by Thomas Hardy 
  07 - From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  08 - An Incident in a Railroad Car by James Russell Lowell 
  09 - What's the Railroad to Me by Henry David Thoreau 
  10 - On the Engine by Night by Alexander Anderson 
  11 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas 
  12 - In the Train and At Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  13 - The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson

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