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  Poetry & Prose

  Jordi Llavina

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  Poetry & Prose is the first time Jordi Llavina’s work has been translated into English and published. The book is a collection of two of his most important and popular pieces of work: The Hermitage and The Pomegranate. In both, Jordi Llavina evokes the sights, sounds and smells of the Mediterranean landscape while weaving together themes of singular poetic beauty. The Hermitage, a long poem of more than 1400 lines, tells of the author’s physical and metaphysical journey up a hill in southern Catalonia to visit a hermitage. Llavina touches on many themes in this poem, including love, death, family, loss, hope and memories. In 2019, Jordi Llavina was awarded the prestigious Lletra d’Or prize for this poem. The second piece of work in the collection is The Pomegranate. Again written about a journey, The Pomegranate is a mix of both poetry and prose and tells the story of a grieving wanderer through the Catalan countryside.

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  Short Poetry Collection 134

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of 18 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2014.

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  Working

  Studs Terkel, Stephen Schwartz,...

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  The first revised and updated version of this 1970’s cult classic. A rousing musical with a cast of twenty, Working is for anyone who has ever punched a clock, a cow or a supervisor - or wanted to. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Eileen Barnett, Orson Bean, Harry Groener, Kaitlin Hopkins, Michael Kostroff, Kenna Ramsey, Vickilyn Reynolds, Vincent Tumeo and B.J. Ward.

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  The Poetry of Harold Munro

  Harold Munro

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  Harold Edward Munro was born on the 14th of March 1879 at 137 chaussée de Charleroi, Saint-Gilles, Brussels. 
   
  He was educated at Radley College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. On 2nd December 1903 in Ireland Munro married Dorothy Elizabeth Browne. Unfortunately the marriage was not to last and they separated in 1908.   
   
  In 1906 his first collection of poetry, Poems, was published.  Many volumes followed but Munro was never regarded as highly as his contemporaries.  Perhaps his forays into magazines, editing and publishing and his bookshop has unfairly diminished his poetic contribution. 
   
  In 1912 he became the editor of the influential magazine, The Poetry Review, but was ousted after a year. In 1913 he founded the Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury.  From here he would also publish new volumes of poetry by himself and other writers.  With Edward Marsh he published annual volumes of Georgian Poetry in the process establishing it as a very fine poetry movement.   
   
  Munro was often tortured by his sexuality and although he married twice some of his poems reveal his truer feelings.  As the Great War smothered Europe with its monstrous destruction of a generation, the War Poets spoke. 
   
  Munro himself wrote only a few war poems but his ‘Youth in Arms’ quartet, written in the first months of the carnage, was an early attempt to explore the human psychology of soldiering and to understand how ungrudgingly youth dies. 
   
  After the war Munro continued his efforts with the Poetry Bookshop and expanded into several new projects.  He was searching both as a writer, and as a publisher, for the middle ground that was both culturally exciting and commercially worthwhile. 
   
  In his later years his mood darkened, his drinking escalated and became a real problem.  Sadly amongst the stresses and the strains he contracted tuberculosis.  
   
  Harold Edward Munro died on the 16th March 1932 aged 53.  He was cremated at Golders Green crematorium. 
   
  It was later remarked of him ‘Perhaps no one did more for the advancement of twentieth-century poetry’.

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  The Tradition

  Jericho Brown

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  Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for PoetryFinalist for the 2019 National Book AwardJericho Brown's daring book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we've become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown's mastery, and his invention of the duplex—a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues—is testament to his formal skill. The Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while reveling in a celebration of contradiction.

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  Witches' Brew (MacBeth Act IV...

  William Shakespeare

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  Librivox volunteers bring you seven readings of The Witches' Brew from Act IV Scene I of MacBeth, by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for October 26, 2014.

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