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  Fifty Shades of London - 50 of...

  Samuel Johnson, Ella Wheeler...

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  This vast and teeming metropolis that many of us call home sits astride a small river on a small island anchored off the north-west shores of Europe.   Yet its very name ‘London’ is famed, admired and known worldwide.  Its growth from hamlet, town, fortification, city and centre of Empire is one of rich reward.  Within its ever-changing borders that are forever moving outwards are gems of architecture across cultures, times and influences that exist in very few other places.  Its diaspora of peoples and cultures overlap, thrive, compete and influence this leviathan of a world city.  
     
  1 - Fifty Shades of London - An Introduction 
  2 - A Ballad of London by Richard Le Gallienne 
  3 - London by Joanna Baillie 
  4 - Dear Old London by Eugene Field 
  5 - The London Bobby by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  6 - London Types - Bus Driver by William Ernest Henley 
  7 - The Cockney Soul by Henry Lawson 
  8 - London Roses by Willa Silbert Cather 
  9 - Behind the Scenes. Empire by Arthur Symons 
  10 - A London Fete by Coventry Patmore 
  11 - London Hast Thou Accursed Me by Henry Howard 
  12 - London by William Blake 
  13 - A London Thoroughfare. 2 AM by Amy Lowell 
  14 - Impression de Nuit (London) by Lord Alfred Douglas 
  15 - London, My Beautiful by F S Flint 
  16 - London in July by Amy Levy 
  17 - A London Plane Tree by Amy Levy 
  18 - In a London Square by Arthur Hugh Clough 
  19 - London I by Julian Bell 
  20 - London Poets by Amy Levy 
  21 - Chatterton in Holborn by Ernest Rhys 
  22 - West London by Matthew Arnold 
  23 - Ballade of the 'Cheshire Cheese' in Fleet Street by T W Rolleston 
  24 - Hyde Park At Night Before the War; Clerks by D H Lawrence 
  25 - London After The Great Fire 1666 by John Dryden 
  26 - His Tears To Thamesis by Robert Herrick 
  27 - The Thames At Mortlake by Ben Jonson 
  28 - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth 
  29 - London Interior by Harold Munro 
  30 - Compensation by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  31 - In A London Drawingroom by George Eliot 
  32 - Freedom in a Suburb by Ernest Radford 
  33 - Death In A London Lodging by Richard Le Gallienne 
  34 - In Westminster Abbey, October 12th 1892 by John Todhunter 
  35 - On the Tombs At Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont 
  36 - Scenes In London I - Piccadilly by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  37 - Scenes In London II - Oxford Street by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  38 - Scenes In London III - The Savoyard In Grosvenor Squeare by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  39 - London Snow by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  40 - From Piccadilly in August by John Freeman 
  41 - Piccadily Circus At Night; Street Walkers by D. H.  Lawrence 
  42 - Letter From Town; on a Grey Morning in March by D H Lawrence 
  43 - The Call to London by Radclyffe Hall 
  44 - The Foggy Dew by Katharine Tynan 
  45 - The Little London Girl by Kate Greenaway 
  46 - Farewell to London in the Year 1715 by Alexander Pope 
  47 - Written in London on the 19th March 1796 by Matilda Betham 
  48 - On My Leaving London, June the 29th by Sarah Fyge-Egerton 
  49 - His Return to London by Robert Herrick 
  50 - A Satire Against the Citizens of London by Henry Howard 
  51 - London, A Poem, In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal by Samuel Johnson

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  50 Shades of a Broken Heart -...

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

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  The beating heart, the drumbeat, the very force of life.  What then when we say ‘it breaks’? ‘I’m heart-broken’? Few of us escape a life without some measure of heartache and the pain it causes.   
   
  In this volume we give full rein to our classic poets across the centuries from Shakespeare and Aphra Behn to Rupert Brooke, Edna St Vincent Millay, A E Housman and continue through Radclyffe Hall, Emily Dickinson and Oscar Wilde. 
   
  It is a journey through feelings, thoughts and expressions in words that we instantly understand, claim as our own and yet reveal other layers, other avenues of thought. 
   
  Whether to soothe the soul, to reconcile with a different perhaps fractured reality, and come to terms with dejection, rejection or vent with bitterness, rage and seek revenge, our poets have words and lines of verse to help balm, repair and better understand these emotional times. 
   
  01 - 50 Shades of a Broken Heart - An Introduction 
  02 - Ebb by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  03 - Heart We Will Forget Him by Emily Dickinson- 
  04 - I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling 
  05 - Loves Lies Bleeding by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  06 - My Own Heart, Let Me Have More, Have Pity by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  07 - They Flee From Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt 
  08 - The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by John Bodenham 
  09 - Love Arm'd by Aphra Behn 
  10 - A Shropshire Lad LIV - With Rue My Heart is Laden by A.E. Housman 
  11 - A Poor Torn Heart, a Tattered Heart by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Proctor 
  13 - A Careless Heart by Isaac Rosenberg 
  17 - My Heart is Lame by Charlotte Mew 
  15 - A Fallen Leaf by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  16 - Helas! by Oscar Wilde 
  17 - A Pause of Thought by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  18 - A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy 
  19 - The Last Betrayal by Edith Nesbit 
  20 - Greater Love by Wilfred Owen 
  21 - In the Tavern of My Heart by Willa Cather 
  22 - Hearts First Word I by Isaac Rosenberg 
  23 - I Have Loved Flowers That Fade by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  24 - I So Like Spring by Charlotte Mew 
  25 - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  64 - Renouncement by Alice Meynell 
  27 - A Shropshire Lad XXXIII - If Truth in Hearts That Perish by A.E. Housman 
  28 - The Forsaken Lover Consoleth Himself With Rememberance of Past Happiness by Sir Thomas Wyatt 
  29 - Sonnet 139 - O! Call Not Me to Justify the Wrong by William Shakespeare 
  06 - Love and Folly by Charlotte Smith 
  31 - No One So Much As You by Edward Thomas 
  32 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing by William Shakespeare 
  33 - Love's Farewell by Michael Drayton 
  34 - The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley 
  35 - Jilted by Radclyffe Hall 
  36 - Jealously by Rupert Brooke 
  09 - Love and Hate by Elizabeth Siddal 
  38 - Amour XXX Three Sorts of Serpents Do Resemble Thee by Michael Drayton 
  28 - Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  40 - Modern Love II by George Meredith 
  41 - To the Ladies by Lady Mary Chudleigh 
  42 - Divorce by Anna Wickham 
  10 - Dead Love by Elizabeth Siddal 
  44 - Modern Love I by George Meredith 
  45 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron 
  46 - We Parted in Silence by Isabella Valancy Crawford 
  47 - Sailing Beyond Seas by Jean Ingelow 
  48 - If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 
  49 - I Shall Not Care by Sara Teasdale 
  50 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke 
  51 - He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead by W B Yeats

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  The Malevolent Volume - Poems

  Justin Phillip Reed

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  The Malevolent Volume explores the myths and transformations of Black being, on a continuum between the monstrous and the sublime. Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath the exploited civilities of marginalized people. In these poems, Reed finds agency in the other-than-human identities assigned to those assaulted by savageries of the state. In doing so, he summons a retaliatory, counterviolent Black spirit to revolt and to inhabit the revolting.

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  Requiem - In Memory of All That...

  Daniel Ståhl

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  Through its 211 interwoven poems, this double-tiered recursive crown of sonnets takes the reader on an epic journey to the heart of mankind’s would-be nemesis – herself – and back again. Does her destiny await in the unexplored depths of the cosmos, or in a toxic wasteland of her own making? Does she have the will to shape her own future, or is she a slave to her myopic wants and impulses? 
  Requiem takes the existential threats facing humanity – from the destruction of the environment to nuclear holocaust – as a lens through which to reflect on the fate of civilization, humanity and ultimately conscious life in the universe.

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  Of the Subcontract - Or...

  Nick Thurston

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  Of the Subcontract is a collection of poems about computational capitalism, each of which was written by an underpaid worker subcontracted through Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk service. The collection is ordered according to cost-of-production and repurposes metadata about the efficiency of each writer to generate informatic typographic embellishments. Those one hundred poems are braced between two newly commissioned essays; the whole book is threaded with references to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Wolfgang von Kempelen and the emerging iconography of cloud living.
   
  Of the Subcontract reverses out of the database-driven digital world of new labour pools into poetry’s black box: the book. It reduces the poetic imagination to exploited labour and, equally, elevates artificial intelligence to the status of the poetic. In doing so, it explores the all-too-real changes that are reforming every kind of work, each day more quickly, under the surface of life.
   
  'The first "computers" were people, hired to do the tedious work of creating accounting systems and tax roles for the administration of newly created bureaucratic structures in post-Revolutionary France. Of the Subcontract presents the poems of their descendants. While this imaginative project extends a line of conceptualist practice that shows us how forms of aesthetic expression take root in the broader culture and what the continuum of amateur and professional work is, it also shows us how poetic acts, like other modes of production, conceal the contradictions and inequities of labour and value in a global world.'
   
  – Johanna Drucker, artist, author and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Bibliography, UCLA
   
  'In an expanded field of writing Nick Thurston is changing the literary landscape. Unlike Francis Alÿs’ workers, who were moving mountains in the desert by shoveling sand, Thurston’s underpaid writers are moving (one spadeful at a time) Robert Smithson’s heap of language from one place to another, leaving us with language to be looked at / things to be read.'
   
  – Kenneth Goldsmith, poet and founding editor of Ubu Web

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  Pillars of Society

  Henrik Ibsen

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  Pillars of Society was Ibsen's first successful realist drama, first performed in 1877. Karsten Bernick is the dominant businessman in a small coastal town in Norway, with interests in shipping and shipbuilding in a long-established family firm. Now he is planning his most ambitious project yet, backing a railway which will connect the town to the main line and open a fertile valley which he has been secretly buying up. Suddenly his past explodes on him with the arrival of Lona Hessel, the woman he once jilted, and Johan Tonnesen, who left town in disgrace fifteen years earlier. - Summary by Wikipedia and Elizabeth KlettKrap: Rob BoardAune: alanmapstoneRorlund: ToddMrs. Rummel: Kathy WrightMrs. Holt: AvailleMrs. Bernick: Beth ThomasDina Dorf: Kristin GjerløwMartha Bernick: DigsHilmar Tonnesen: Algy PugOlaf Bernick: Tricia GMrs. Lynge: LydiaKarsten Bernick: Bruce PirieVigeland: HamletRummel: Larry WilsonSandstad: David OlsonLona Hessel: Elizabeth KlettJohan Tonnesen: mbNarrator: April Waltersaudio edited by Elizabeth Klett

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