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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Thomas Gray, Alexander Anderson,...

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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. 
   
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Churchyards - An Introduction 
  2 - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 
  3 - In Kirkonnel Old Churchyard by Alexander Anderson 
  4 - Contemplative Verses on the Tombs in Drumcondra Church Yard by Thomas Dermody 
  5 - Reflections in a Churchyard by Jane Timbury 
  6 - Lines Written Beneath An Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow On The Hill Sept 2nd 1807 by George Gordon Byron 
  7 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley 
  8 - Scenes in London IV - The City Churchyard by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  9 - Elegy - Supposed To Be Written in Barnet Churchyard by George Townsend 
  10 - In a Christian Churchyard by James Thomson 
  11 - Eastnor Churchyard by Radclyffe Hall 
  12 - Epitaph for a Roman Catholic Churchyard by John Kenyon 
  13 - Church Monuments by George Herbert

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  Parliament Square (NHB Modern...

  James Fritz

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  How far would you go for what you believe in?
  Kat gets up one morning, leaves her family behind and travels to London to carry out an act that will change her life and, she hopes, everyone else's.
  Raw, disturbing and compassionate, James Fritz's searingly powerful play forces a confrontation with some of the most urgent questions we face. What can one individual do to effect change? And where do we draw the line between absolute commitment and dangerous obsession?
  Parliament Square won the Judges' Award in the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. It premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in October 2017, before transferring to the Bush Theatre, London.
  'Powerful' - Guardian
  'Thought-provoking… Fritz's writing is strong throughout' - The Stage

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  The Toll

  Luke Wright

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  An escaped lion roams the streets of Essex;
  
  a lonely pensioner holds a tower block fete; ,brand a young woman dreams of leaving home.
  
  Travel the unfashionable A-roads and commuter lines of England -'where industry meets marsh'- with poet Luke Wright. In his stunning new collection, discover a country riven by inequality and corruption but sustained by a surreal, gallow's humour. The Toll combines the elegaic with the anarchic, placing uproarious satire cheek-by-jowl with wild experiments in form and touching poems of parenthood.
  
  In this mature follow-up to his best-selling debut, Mondeo Man, Wright captures the strain of austerity Britain, speaking truth to power and registering the toll it takes on us all.

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  The Urban Girl's Guide to...

  Fin Kennedy

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  Four young friends leave the city behind and head into the wilderness, but a burning secret threatens to tear their lives apart. A bittersweet comedy about life, love and friendship once school is long gone.
  Written in an ensemble storytelling style that will suit younger performance groups around the country, especially those looking for predominantly female roles.

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  The Evil Doers (NHB Modern Plays)

  Chris Hannan

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  Tracky is a teenage heavy metal fan with life issues. Her mother's an alcoholic. Her father's a taxi driver with delusions of becoming a tour guide. Now they're being pursued by a loanshark. None of this is going to end well...
  Chris Hannan's play The Evil Doers is a chaotic, violent, comic odyssey through the dismal streets of 1980s Glasgow.
  'An alcoholic is not someone who drinks too much; an alcoholic is an emotional whirlwind, a destructive force which tears up everything in his or her path, and then passes, disappears, utterly unaware of the devastation caused. The Evil Doers is about the whirlwind and those in its path.' Chris Hannan
  First produced at the Bush Theatre, London, in August 1990, The Evil Doers won a Time Out Award, a Plays and Players' Critics Award, and that year's Charrington London Fringe Award for Best Play.
  'Uproariously funny... Hannan has a sharp eye for flaky characterisation and a wonderful ear for quirky vernacular dialogue, a sawn-off language of violent verbal collisions, like a pile-up on the motorway… We never quite stop laughing but it becomes increasingly painful to do so, and I suspect that no-one will be able to watch the bruising final scene without physically flinching.' Telegraph
  'A gorgeously enjoyable play. As in the comedies of Ben Jonson and Middleton, the hunt for money gives the play its structure. Like Jonson and Middleton also, Hannan owns a penetrating eye for tricks of character and an equally sharp ear... A world of uncertain egos where the characters bounce off each other like bumper cars, powered by sources beyond their control.' The Times
  'A vicious and idiosyncratic Glaswegian city comedy.' Observer
  'The verve, the iconoclastic humour is tremendous, each character brilliantly personalised.' Herald
  'Extraordinary free-ranging vitality.' Independent on Sunday
  'No plot description can explain the beauty, warmth and poetic energy of Chris Hannan's The Evil Doers. In its generosity of attention, its expansiveness and richness, in the scale of its emotional intensities, it is as broad as a city itself. It is a modern masterpiece.' Encore Theatre Magazine

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  Sorrow Tears and Blood - Poetry...

  David Onamade

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  David’s book is one of despair and hope; one that paints a picture of our society that is both dark and broken up by fleeting rays of light. From his plight on the streets in one of England’s richest regions, to the interactions of people he observes and encounters every day, to the impacts of Covid-19 and the changing seasons – this is poetry and prose at its most powerful. It is a book that reveals the double-talk of homeless service provision – a society that consigns people as worthless without knowing their backgrounds; which assumes that homelessness is a choice rather than a predicament. It is impossible not to have read this book and come away changed: to feel the biting need to make a difference and sense of injustice as to why so many individuals – people who could otherwise fulfil their potential, for the benefit of others as well as themselves – are thrown cruelly to the fringes. 
   

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