Maison d'édition: Babelcube
Three short stories that share a theme of introspective journeys through the inextricable twists and turns of the main characters.
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Christina Rossetti’s poetry is marked by lyrical restraint, emotional depth, and spiritual intensity. Her verse weaves simplicity with symbolism, exploring love, renunciation, faith, longing, and mortality in language that is both clear and haunting. Drawing on natural imagery, biblical resonance, and quiet musicality, Rossetti’s poems speak with a voice that is intimate yet enduring, tender yet unsparing. This audiobook presents a carefully curated selection of her poems, each accompanied by an original literary analysis that illuminates Rossetti’s themes, imagery, and emotional architecture. Enhancing the experience, a specially composed piano underscore accompanies every poem, written to reflect its mood, rhythm, and inner tension. Together, poetry, analysis, and music create an immersive listening experience that deepens understanding while preserving the quiet power of Rossetti’s voice.Voir livre
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD Poetry that navigates the science of cold waterways to consider the warmth of the poet’s Chinese-Mauritian family ties Fire Cider Rain is about the limits to which shared cultural and geographic histories can hold a family together. It follows the lives of three Chinese-Mauritian women on the course of dispersing, settling, and rooting over northern landscapes, and the brittle family bonds that tie them to one another and to their home country. Told from the perspective of the youngest of the three women, Fire Cider Rain follows the events leading up to and following the death of her grandmother, an ex-lighthouse keeper and matriarch whose fractured relationship with her own daughter haunts the narrator’s life in soft, painful aftershocks. As she navigates the cold cities and waterways of Southern Ontario, our narrator struggles with conflicting desires to run toward and flee from her island identity, which grows ever distant, ever more difficult to find her way back to. At its core, Fire Cider Rain is a book about parent-child relationships as vessels for cultural identity, and the ways in which expressions of love and non-love within those relationships can rupture sense of place, self, and at times, a collective diaspora. Throughout the book, Ng Cheng Hin explores the geopolitics of island nations, the dilution of family histories over time, and the experience of water as a medium for the cyclical movement of island bodies, stories, and cultures. The Mauritian landscape and waterways of southern Ontario recur through the book as convergence points for its many themes. "In this stunning debut, Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin weaves wondrous verse across geological spaces that extend from Mauritius to Canada. In this poetry, the Indian Ocean converses with northern landscapes to give voice to the (un)settling of diasporic women in search of rootedness. Water becomes a medium, a metaphor, a rhythm, a motif, and a metamorphosing figure through which memory, loss and mourning become bodies. Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin's sweeping poetry is infused with dexterous and lavish verse that makes the reader want to live within the nuances of each line. Fire Cider Rain is a dazzling debut!" – Kama La Mackarel, author of ZOM-FAM “Mauritian waters of memory migrate through ‘imperial decay’ and ‘calcic dust’ to the cold northern continent where Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin’s lustrous poetic telemetry manifests a lexical biogeography of uprootedness—her lyrical ‘I’ the connecting thread between past and future, between mother and moth, grandmother and cyclone, selia lover and terra nullius. Fire Cider Rain erupts as ebb and swell, distilling belonging and meaning in postcolonial drift, filling absence with terraqueous inquiry and salvaged wake.” – Jeffrey Yang, author of Line and Light "In reading Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin’s poetry, I became immersed within a deep sense memory of why I came to love poetry in the first place. Her attunement to language and cadence vibrates, or as she writes 'love – or recognition, catches in my throat and stings.' Hers is a voice that can make nerve endings sing and one that speaks with such artful earnestness to the difficulties there are in a personal history. Ng Cheng Hin’s poetry is cousin to the spider's web, which belies a kind of vulnerability through its delicate beauty, yet each of its strands contains an exceptional tensile strength." – Liz Howard, author of Letters in a Bruised CosmosVoir livre
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles. For nine long years, the armies of Greece have besieged the walls of Troy. But when a bitter quarrel erupts between King Agamemnon and Achilles, the greatest of all warriors, rage threatens to destroy the Greeks from within. As Achilles withdraws from battle, the tide of war turns – and gods and mortals alike are drawn into a conflict where honor demands blood, and glory comes at a terrible price. Homer's Iliad stands at the very beginning of Western literature: a monumental epic of war, pride, grief, and the fleeting nature of human life. From the duel of Paris and Menelaus to the death of Hector before the gates of Troy, its scenes have echoed through three millennia – and lost none of their power. This audiobook presents Samuel Butler's celebrated prose translation, prized for its clarity and directness, which renders the ancient epic vivid and accessible to the modern listener. A timeless story of anger and reconciliation, fate and free will – and of what it truly costs to be remembered forever.Voir livre
Jayne is newly retired and disappointed with her life. She's in danger of becoming her daughter's babysitting service, and is desperate to make a change. When she meets a handsome stranger in the park – and an opportunity to do something for herself arises – can Jayne allow herself a second chance at happiness? Matt Hartley's play The Wife of Cyncoed is a charming and open-hearted play about self-discovery later in life. It premiered at Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, in 2024, and provides gloriously entertaining opportunities for a mature solo performer.Voir livre
The Tragedy of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare is a powerful political drama that explores pride, power, loyalty, and the fragile relationship between leaders and the people they govern. Inspired by stories from ancient Roman history, this gripping tragedy reveals the rise and fall of a brilliant but deeply flawed warrior whose strength on the battlefield cannot save him from his own pride. The story follows Caius Martius, a fearless Roman general whose unmatched courage and military success earn him great honor after a decisive victory against Rome's enemies. For his achievements, he is given the name Coriolanus, a title celebrating his triumph in battle. Admired by the Roman elite for his bravery and discipline, Coriolanus appears destined for even greater power. However, the same qualities that make him a formidable soldier also become his greatest weaknesses. Coriolanus despises political compromise and openly scorns the common citizens whose support he must gain in order to rise in Roman politics. His arrogance and refusal to flatter the people create tension between him and the public, as well as with the tribunes who represent them. Encouraged by his ambitious mother, Volumnia, Coriolanus seeks the position of consul. Yet his inability to hide his contempt for the masses quickly turns public opinion against him. Manipulated by political rivals and angered by his pride, the citizens ultimately banish him from Rome. Driven by rage and betrayal, Coriolanus makes a shocking decision—he allies himself with Rome's former enemies and prepares to lead an attack against the very city he once defended. As war looms, the fate of Rome rests not on soldiers or politicians, but on personal loyalty, family bonds, and the emotional struggle within a proud warrior who must choose between revenge and mercy. Through intense conflict and unforgettable characters, Shakespeare examines themes of leadership, political power, public opinion, and personal honor. The Tragedy of Coriolanus offers a timeless reflection on the dangers of pride, the complexity of political life, and the challenges faced by those who hold great power. Both a gripping historical drama and a profound psychological tragedy, this remarkable play continues to resonate with modern readers, reminding us that the greatest battles are often fought not on the battlefield, but within the human heart.Voir livre
This book is not written for today's poets, pundits and professors. It is written for the mature people who have known, understood and experienced the love as only two passionate humans together can. If Lady Luck has smiled upon you, you have hit the jackpot. The right person makes all the difference. These poems are the expression of such fortune. This one is written, as simply as I can, for those who have tenaciously clung to each other through all their ups and downs and are still smiling, laughing, hugging, bantering, and, most importantly, still cooing. Those who have made their lives a love song, through all the unsavory political, social, and emotional upheavals that eternally surround us. This book covers a gamut of everyday interactions between mates, touching on sarcasm, banter, laughter, and even her experience of a simple trip to Home Depot. It is like an ice cream flavor you haven't yet tasted.Voir livre
