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  The Swan (NHB Modern Plays)

  DC Moore

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  An examination of the ties that hold us together in a fractured society.
  In a decaying pub in South London, preparations are being made for a wake. With only an hour before their guests arrive, a family begin to settle their accounts. The ghosts of lives lived and opportunities missed are laid to rest as new and ancient betrayals are confronted and forgiven.
  'coarse, tart and funny' - The Times
  'DC Moore is the laureate of disappointed blokes in boozers and Jim is one of his most accurate, compassionate inventions' - Time Out
  'a savvy, worldly piece about deception and loyalty. Moore is one of the best thirty-something playwrights around, an expert analyst of half-truths and human weakness' - Evening Standard

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  Eunoia - The Upgraded Edition

  Christian Bock

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  Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (2002)
   
  Stunning and masterful in its execution, Eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram.
   
  The word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (l’Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), a French writers’ group interested in experimenting with different forms of literary constraint, Eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapteris a univocal lipogram – the first chapter has A as its only vowel, the second chapter E, etc. Each vowel takes on a distinct personality: the I is egotistical and romantic, the O jocular and obscene, the E elegiac and epic (including a retelling of the Iliad!).
   
  Stunning in its implications and masterful in its execution, Eunoia has developed a cult following, garnering extensive praise and winning the Griffin Poetry Prize. The original edition was never released in the U.S., but it has already been a bestseller in Canada and the U.K. (published by Canongate Books), where it was listed as one of the Times’ top ten books of 2008.
   
  This new edition features several new but related poems by Christian Bok and an expanded afterword.
   
  'Eunoia is a novel that will drive everybody sane.' —Samuel Delany
   
  'Eunoia takes the lipogram and rendersit obsolete.' —Kenneth Goldsmith
   
  'A marvellous, musical texture of rhymes and echoes.' —Harry Mathews
   
  'An exemplary monument for 21st century poetry.' —Charles Bernstein
   
  'Bök's dazzling word games are the literary sensation of the year.' —The Times
   
  'A resounding success ... brilliant.' —The Guardian
   
  'Brilliant ... beautiful and strange.' —Today Programme, BBC Radio 4
   
  'Impressive.' —Sunday Telegraph
   
  'No mere Christmas stocking filler for Countdown fans. Rather, it's an ingenious little novel ... playful and irreverent ... charming.' —Metro

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  East is East

  Ab Khan-Din

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  The play that gave birth to the smash-hit film - a wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.
  The six Khan children, entangled in arranged marriages and bell-bottoms, are trying to find their way growing up in 1970s Salford. They are all caught between their Pakistani father's insistence on Asian traditions, their English mother's laissez-faire attitude, and their own wish to become citizens of the modern world.
  'First plays don't come much better than this... full of intelligence, irresistable laughter and serious promise.' Sunday Times

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  Reading the Bible Backwards

  Robert Priest

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  Reverse engineering the word, meme splicing, morpheme replacement therapy, phonetic modifications: these are some of the techniques in play throughout Reading the Bible Backwards, the lyrical thought experiments that make up this eagerly anticipated new collection of poems by Robert Priest. By throwing the Bible and other cultural narratives on the turntable and spinning them backwards, Priest unleashes surprisingly new but strangely familiar music and meaning. Whether the movements are sideways, inverted, or omni-directional, his satire has never been sharper — or darker. Ultimately, though, Priest’s lyric voice has never been more finely tuned or elegant, especially in the wonderfully groundbreaking “I Love You Forwards” poems that afford this book its remarkable balance.

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  The Road Builders

  Voltairine de Cleyre

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of The Road Builders, by Voltairine de Cleyre. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 29th, 2008.

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  329 Haiku Poems for Your...

  Adrian Tanase

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  In this rather extensive collection of 3-line Japanese haiku poems, the mystical blends with the simplicity of the world to create sacred, transparent, and yet profound and inspiring insights, to guide you further, on your spiritual path.Listening to these poems will sustain your mindfulness and will inspire you to practice/meditate more, in your daily routine. Each chapter begins with a general spiritual explanation of the subject of the haikus, continuing with the haikus of that particular chapter.The book is organized into 29 chapters related to virtues, human traits, and other spiritual aspects. I have covered most of the topics that a seasoned spiritual practitioner or even a beginner would need for his meditative practice. I am sure that any practitioner will find plenty of poems that he can resonate with while listening to this audiobook.May all these poems that I wrote with much love, guide your heart on the path of beauty and simplicity. Namaste

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