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  Poison (NHB Modern Plays)

  Lot Vekemans

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  An extraordinary play that asks a simple question: is it ever possible to move on?
  Poison by Dutch writer Lot Vekemans had a critically acclaimed run in New York in 2016, and was premiered in the UK at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in November 2017, directed by Paul Miller.
  'An absorbing dance around the truth, in which tenderness and starkness alternate and the awkward cadences of debate are chasteningly authentic… considers the effects of grief, but instead of making pain appear poetic it portrays with sober precision the essential ordinariness of its two characters' - Evening Standard
  'Painful, powerful… a minutely realistic look at the oddly colourless nature of grieving, and the grim concrete structures that 21st-century secular society builds around it' - Time Out
  'Quietly unflinching… an almost forensic exploration of the hard, sharp edges of grief and loss… [has a] bruising truthfulness' - The Stage
  'searing... a tear-jerker' - New York Times
  'truly astounding' - Broadway World

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  Fifty Shades of September - 50...

  William Wordsworth, Thomas...

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  The Land of the Free, the Home of the Brave.  This illustrious phrase encapsulates the aspirations of America and its people.   
   
  In this volume we feature 50 American poets beginning with the Colonist Anne Bradstreet in the 17th century, when American poetry was entirely rooted in its parental British forms.  From here our classic poets take us through Centuries of history, through Independence and expansion Westward, across the cities and vast landscapes of their words.  Along the journey we also meet the Imagists, the poets from the Harlem Renaissance by way of the Transcendentalists and the Fireside Poets.   
   
  The giants of the poetic way loom large; Walt Whitman. Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Edna St Vincent Millay.  Our rambling poetic stroll gives voice to the nation’s hopes, its dreams, its failings, its musings.   
   
  We cannot hope to define America but we do provide the many changing moods and flavours of the times as we discover the essence of its soul. 
  1 - Fifty Shades of September - An Introduction 
  2 - September by George Arnold 
  3 - September by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  4 - September 1st 1802 By William Wordsworth 
  5 - Lines Written Beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow-on-the-Hill September 2nd 1807 by Lord Byron 
  6 - Sonnet XXL, Sacred to the Memory of Edward Spedding Who Died September 3rd 1832 by Henry Alford 
  7 - An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay 
  8 - Lines Written on the 6th September by Thomas Gent 
  9 - Autumn in Sussex by Radclyffe Hall 
  10 - Autumn in Cornwall  by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  11 - Written in London September 1802 by William Wordsworth 
  12 - Autumn by Kahlil Gibran 
  13 - September by Carlos Wilcox 
  14 - A Calendar of Sonnets - September by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  15 - September by John Payne 
  16 - The Name of it is Autumn by Emily Dickinson 
  17 - September 1815 by William Wordsworth 
  18 - Autumn Song by Dante Gabriel Rosetti 
  19 - Autumn Dawn by Charles Sorley 
  20 - An Autumn Sunset by Edith Wharton 
  21 - A September Night by George Marion McClellan 
  22 - In Autumn Moonlight by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  23 - Indian Summer by Henry Van Dyke 
  24 - September 1819 by William Wordsworth 
  25 - The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  26 - Autumn by Thomas Hood 
  27 - Elegy in April and September by Wilfred Owen 
  28 - September 1918 by Amy Lowell 
  29 - 21st September, 1870 by Charles Kingsley 
  30 - An Autumn Rain Scene by Thomas Hardy 
  31 - Sonnet. September 1922 by Ivor Gurney 
  32 - September by Janet Hamilton 
  33 - In September by Thomas MacDonagh 
  34 - Autumn Overlooked My Knitting by Emily Dickinson 
  35 - The Golden Wedding of Sterling and Sarah Lanier September 27th, 1868 by Sidney Lanier 
  36 - To Autumn by William Blake 
  37 - Written in September 1804 by Christian Milne 
  38 - Autumn by Anne Bradstreet 
  39 - Ode to Autumn by John Keats 
  40 - Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  41 - Autumn - A Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  42 - In September by Amy Levy 
  43 - Postscriptum, September 1913 by Thomas MacDonagh 
  44 - Hold the Harvest by Fanny Parnell 
  45 - September Midnights by Sara Teasdale 
  46 - September 1913 by William Butler Yeats 
  47 - Late September by Amy Lowell 
  48 - Love's Harvest by Alfred Austin 
  49 - Autumn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  50 - A Carol of Harvest for 1867 by Walt Whitman 
  51 - September Dark by James Whitcomb Riley

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  Hating To Love My Life - The...

  Courtlin D. Fields

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  The first of five planned volumes of poetry, The Chapbook 1 speaks of suicide, love, breakups, the loss of a child, and the loss of a parent. However, Courtlin found a way to turn these darkest memories and feelings into something positive. 
  As a man, it is hard to express your feelings. Then, to be a Black man adds another layer. To be a light-skinned Black man, there is trouble in those waters too. 
  This is not a book to tell you how to live your life. This is not a book to tell you how to make millions. This is a book of poetry to let you know that you are not alone. Every expressed emotion is real. Every poem means something personal. Hopefully, sharing my poems with you will inspire some degree in knowing no matter your skin color.

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  Major Barbara

  George Bernard Shaw

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  Barbara is a major in the Salvation Army - but she’s also the daughter of Andrew Undershaft, a man who’s made millions from the sale of weapons of war. The real battle, however, rages between between the devilish  father and his idealistic daughter as they answer the question: does salvation come through faith or finance? This sparkling comedy traverses family relations, religion, ethics and politics - as only Shaw, the master dramatist, can!An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring J.B. Blanc, Kate Burton, Matthew Gaydos, Brian George, Hamish Linklater, Henri Lubatti, Kirsten Potter, Roger Rees, Russell Soder, Amelia White, Missy Yager and Sarah Zimmerman.

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  Deaf Republic - A Lyric Essay

  Ilya Kaminsky

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  Finalist for the National Book Award; finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award; finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; winner of the National Jewish Book Award; finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize; and a finalist for the Forward Prize for Best CollectionIlya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya's girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky's long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.

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  Broken Wings

  Carla Stewart

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  Carla Stewart follows up her OFBI Fiction Book of the year debut with her compelling novel Broken Wings. Stage performers Gabe and Mitzi Steiner captured America’s heart for two decades. Now, after 60 wonderful years of marriage, Gabe has drifted into the fog of Alzheimer’s, leaving Mitzi to ponder her future—alone. In the midst of her own grief, Mitzi encounters a battered young woman desperate for someone to help her pick up the broken pieces of her life.  “A memorable story, beautifully written.”—Tina Forkner, best-selling author

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