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  Cutting Room

  Sarah Pinder

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  Cutting Room both describes and pushes against the anxious hum of the technologically saturated present. Sarah Pinder's poems navigate domestic and 'natural' spaces as landscapes charged with possible violence and desire. Using hyper-focus and the long gaze, they draw the eye to the corners and seams of these spaces, slowing us down, shifting our focus to worn detail, asking us to seek pattern and possibility in a hyper-paced present tense. Theseare little ominous films, documenting the minutiae around us that can be our undoing.

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  Milk Snake - Poems

  Toby Buckley

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  In Milk Snake, Toby Buckley invites us to look at the world from a slightly different angle, where small things become unsettling if you look closely enough. The poet explores queerness, displacement and trauma through clear-voiced, deceptively gentle poems about fishermen, maggots and bees.
  bleary
  from sleep and warm
  water and no glasses
  i spot an uncertain comma
  sliding
  he drags his tail up my
  shower wall cumbersome
  and not unmaggotesque and i
  can see
  his guts
  or maybe it's
  his dinner
  
  - from 'companion'

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  The Poetry of Edith Wharton -...

  Edith Wharton

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  Edith Newbold Jones was born in New York on 24th January 1862.   Born into wealth, this background of privilege gave her a wealth of experience to eventually, after several false starts, produce many works based on it culminating in her 1921 Pulitzer Prize winning novel ‘The Age of Innocence’ 
   
  Marriage to Edward Robbins Wharton, who was 12 years her senior in 1885 seemed to offer much and for some years they travelled extensively.  After some years it was apparent that her husband suffered from acute depression and so the travelling ceased and they retired to ‘The Mount’, their estate designed by Edith.  By 1908 his condition was said to be incurable and prior to divorcing Edward in 1913 she began an affair, in 1908, with Morton Fullerton, a Times journalist, who was her intellectual equal and allowed her writing talents to push forward and write the novels for which she is so well known.  
   
  Acknowledged as one of the great American writers Wharton was also a dazzling though largely unrecognised poet.  Her talents allowed her to create poems that both capture and explore many situations of life and society.  
   
  Edith Wharton died of a stroke in 1937 at the Domaine Le Pavillon Colombe, her 18th-century house on Rue de Montmorency in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, in France. 
   
  1 - The Poetry of Edith Wharton - An Introduction 
  2 - Terminus by Edith Wharton 
  3 - Some Busy Hands by Edith Wharton 
  4 - A Failure by Edith Wharton 
  5 - A Hunting Song by Edith Wharton 
  6 - Happiness by Edith Wharton 
  7 - Mould and Vase by Edith Wharton 
  8 - Jade by Edith Wharton 
  9 - Aeropagus by Edith Wharton 
  10 - Non Dolet by Edith Wharton 
  11 - Botticlelli’s Madonna in the Louvre by Edith Wharton 
  12 - Patience by Edith Wharton 
  13 - The Comrade by Edith Wharton 
  14 - Mona Lisa by Edith Wharton 
  15 - Life by Edith Wharton 
  16 - The Bread of Angels by Edith Wharton 
  17 - Chartres by Edith Wharton 
  18 - Survival by Edith Wharton 
  19 - All Saints by Edith Wharton 
  20 - All Souls by Edith Wharton 
  21 - The Young Dead by Edith Wharton 
  22 - Belgium by Edith Wharton 
  23 - Battle Sleep by Edith Wharton 
  24 - Experience by Edith Wharton 
  25 - A Torchbearer by Edith Wharton 
  26 - A Grave by Edith Wharton 
  27 - An Autumn Sunset by Edith Wharton 
  28 - Grief by Edith Wharton

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  Glee & Me (NHB Modern Plays)

  Stuart Slade

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  Lola is sixteen years old, sharp-witted and has her whole life ahead of her – until she's diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour. Now her brilliant mind is rapidly turning into useless mush.
  So she's promised herself two things before she dies:1. She's going to get All The Sex and2. She'll definitively discover the Meaning of Life.
  Stuart Slade's play Glee & Me is an unexpectedly optimistic portrayal of love and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit. It won the Judges Award in the 2019 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in September 2021.

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  Mayfly (NHB Modern Plays)

  Joe White

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  Ben thinks his family might be better off without him, but his wife Cat has read her stars: 'Today a very special person will appear from out the blue.'
  Their daughter Loops is getting ready for a date. It's her first one, and she has everything crossed.
  An ethereal family drama, Joe White's debut play Mayfly explores rebirth in the aftermath of tragedy. It premiered at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in April 2018.

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  The Great Poets: Lord Byron

  Lord Byron

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  Today Byron is regarded as the ultimate romantic – a rebel, a Casanova and a man of intense, brooding passion. He was the most famous literary man of his time, and his poetry, endlessly witty and often insightful, was immensely popular and hugely influential. From the delicate romanticism of She Walks in Beauty to the evocative reflections of So We’ll Go No More a Roving, Byron’s poems were unrivalled in their power and potency. Lesser-known poems such as Destruction of Sennacherib, a reimagining of the biblical story of Sennacherib, Prometheus, a sardonic poem about the Greek gods, and Darkness, an apocalyptic story of the last man on earth, also included here, reveal Byron to be a poet of great range and variety. ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’, Lord Byron was without equal in English literature.

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