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  Henry VIII

  William Shakespeare

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  This is Shakespeare's dutiful trubute to one of the most imposing and terrifying rulers in European history. The kingdom trembles as the giant monarch storms through his midlife crisis, disposing of the faithful Katharine of Aragon and starting a new life and, the king hopes, a line of succession with the captivating young Anne Bullen. Unlike his predecessors, Henry has no doubt about the security of his tenure on the throne, and dominates the royal court with absolute authority. The play has a surprising modern flavour: there is even a set of "Royal watchers" - the three gossipy gentlemen!

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  Weekend On The Isle

  Stephanie Nicole Norris

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  Note: This is a follow-up story to No Holds Barred. I encourage you to read that book first before reading Weekend On The Isle. 
  Deciding they need quality time away from the hustle and bustle of their busy lives, Hunter takes Camilla to St. Lucia, where the two don’t come up for air as they indulge in a weekend on the isle.

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  With My Back to the World - Poems

  Victoria Chang

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  A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit.Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square.With My Back to the World engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do. Filled with surprise and insight, wit and profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence, life and death, grief and depression, time and space. Strikingly original, fluidly strange, Victoria Chang's new collection is a book that speaks to how we see and are seen.

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  Fifty Shades of February - 50 of...

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,...

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  The second month adds tiny dashes of colour.  Nature begins to gently rouse herself for the coming season.  Winter begins to withdraw its raw and elemental fingers in soft remembered surrender to the natural cycle that welcomes Spring.  
  Our classic poets, in 50 poems of inky verse, reveal all manner of events, sights and sounds. Among their ranks are Longfellow, Coleridge, Dickinson, Teasdale, Clare and a wealth of many others, who, with their thoughts and desires express the world in lines of revelation. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of February - An Introduction 
  2 - February by John Clare 
  3 - Lines on Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  4 - February by Dollie Radford 
  5 - On the Death of Ms Burnite Who Died February the 2nd 1878 by David John Scott 
  6 - The Snowdrop by Henry James Pye 
  7 - February 3rd, 1830 by Henry Alford 
  8 - February by Arthur Christopher Benson 
  9 - February by Edward Ward 
  10 - February by Louisa Sarah Bevington 
  11 - February 10th, 1840 by Henry Alford 
  12 - A Calendar of Sonnets by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  13 - Hymn Written Sunday February 11th, 1798 by Robert Anderson 
  14 - In February by Alice Meynell 
  15 - A Valentine's Song by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  16 - A Valentine by Matilda Betham Edwards 
  17 - February by Edwin Arnold 
  18 - Meeting in Winter by William Morris 
  19 - Valentine by Elinor Wylie 
  20 - Sonnet I - Go Valentine and Tell That Lovely Maid by Robert Southey 
  21 - A Valentine by Lewis Carroll 
  22 - St Valentine's Day by Edith Nesbit 
  23 - The February Hush by Thomas Wentworth Higginson 
  24 - Snow Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  25 - In February by John Addington Symonds 
  26 - London Snow by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  27 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  28 - Snow Beneath Whose Chilly Softness by Emily Dickinson 
  29 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens 
  30 - Woods in Winter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  31 - The Brook in February by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 
  32 - Before You Thought of Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  33 - Winter - My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  34 - Winter Calls by Daniel Sheehan 
  35 - February by George Walter Thornbury 
  36 - To Susanna, February 1824 by Eliza Acton 
  37 - To A Primrose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  38 - To Primroses Filled With Morning Dew by Robert Herrick 
  39 - February by Sara Teasdale 
  40 - February by James Berry Bensel 
  41 - February Morning by Laurence Binyon 
  42 - The Thrush in February by George Meredith 
  43 - February Twilight by Sara Teasdale 
  44 - Evening in February by Francis Ledwidge 
  45 - Rainy Midnight by Ivor Gurney 
  46 - The Rain and the Wind by William Ernest Henley 
  47 - February by Edith Nesbit 
  48 - To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman 
  49 - Ode to France, February 1848 by James Russell Lowell 
  50 - To H W L on His Birthday 27th February, 1867 by James Russell Lowell 
  51 - February. An Elegy by Thomas Chatterton

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  Why Can't We Live Together? (NHB...

  Steve Waters

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  Set against the low hum of the War on Terror, Why Can't We Live Together? is a kaleidoscopic vision of our times through the lives of one man and one woman.
  This play is taken from Steve Waters: Shorts, five short plays from acclaimed playwright Steve Waters, all of them deeply personal accounts of his attempts to make sense of twenty-first-century Britain and an ever-changing world.

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  Pericles

  William Shakespeare, Edith Nesbit

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  Pericles, the young Prince of Tyre in Phoenicia. modern day Lebanon, hears the riddle, and instantly understands its meaning: Antiochus is engaged in an incestuous relationship with his daughter. If he reveals this truth, he will be killed, but if he answers incorrectly, he will also be killed. 
  This edition of Pericles is an adaptation of Shakespeare's eponymous drama, narrated in plain modern English, capturing the very essence and key elements of the original Shakespeare's work. This work was adapted by Edith Nesbit.

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