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  G K Chesterton - Chapter & Verse...

  GK Chesterton

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse. 
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - G K Chesterton - An Introduction 
  2 - The Resurrection of Father Brown by G K Chesterton 
  3 - The Song Against Songs by G K Chesterton 
  4 - The Strange Music by G K Chesterton 
  5 - The Song of Right and Wrong by G K Chesterton 
  6 - Americanisation by G K Chesterton 
  7 - The Englishman by G K Chesterton 
  8 - The Mystery by G K Chesterton 
  9 - Le Panto by G K Chesterton 
  10 - The Convert by G K Chesterton 
  11 - The Human Tree by G K Chesterton 
  12 - The Secret People by G K Chesterton 
  13 - The Last Hero by G K Chesterton 
  14 - A Prayer in Darkness by G K Chesterton 
  15 - A Ballad of Suicide by G K Chesterton 
  16 - The Rolling English Road by G K Chesterton 
  17 - A Somewhat Improbable Story by G K Chesterton

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  Nonsense Songs and Laughable Lyrics

  Edward Lear

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  There was a verse writer named LearWho said “in the future I fearThat the verses I write be recorded (they might)for all who desire so to HEAR”(R.M. with apologies to E. L.)Edward Lear is justly renowned as a writer of humorous verse. His “Nonsense Songs”were published in 1871 and includes probably his best known and most loved poem “The Owl and the Pussycat”. “Laughable Lyrics “ (1877) contains other popular  rhymes including “The Dong with a Luminous Nose”, “The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo”, “The Pobble Who Has No Toes” and more.

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  Wisdom Command Handbook -...

  Dr Emmanuel Marboah

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  The ‘Wisdom Command Handbook’ is ideal for leaders, workers, aspiring ministers, role models and maturing believers in the Body of Christ and beyond. The ideas and quotes in this book have been carefully selected and repeatedly thought over to ensure that it is healthy and inspiring enough for any class of listeners. This book is richly informed to help catapult the listener to the next level in both their spiritual life and life in general. It is a ‘must listen to’ for all levels of believers and non-believers alike. Judging from its content, it is impossible for one to remain uninspired or non-imparted after thoroughly listening to it, because they are inspirational and life-transforming in content wise. But to be evidently affected by them, one must make a conscious effort to fully act upon and apply them to their life. They would do you much more good if you are able to duly apply them to your life, because it has the potential to effect a revolutionary change in your life within the shortest possible time. Listen, enjoy and be blessed! 

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  Measure for Measure

  William Shakespeare

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  When a young woman is offered the choice ofsaving a man's life at the price of her own chastity,what should she do? 
  The political and moral corruption of Vienna has driven Duke Vincentio into hiding while his deputy governor, Angelo is left to revive the old discipline of civic authority. Angelos First act is to imprison Claudio, a young nobleman who has gotten his betrothed, Juliet, with child. Under the old laws, this is punishable by death. Angelo next offers Isabella, sister to Claudio and a beautiful young novice about to take her vows, the chance to save her brother's life at the price of her own chastity. Disguised as a friar, the duke returns to manipulate the players and deliver justice in one or Shakespeare's darkest plays concerned with the nature of justice and morality.

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  Expressway

  Sina Queyras

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  Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry
   
  This poem resembles urban sprawl. This poem resembles the freedom to charge a fee. The fee occurs in the gaps. It is an event. It is not without precedent. It is a moment in which you pay money. It is a tribute to freedom of choice.
   
  Reality is a parking lot in Qatar. Reality is an airstrip in Malawi.
   
  Meanwhile the expressway encloses, the expressway round and around the perimeters like wagon trains circling the bonfire, all of them, guns pointed, Busby Berkeley in the night sky.
   
  Echoing the pastoral and elegiac modes of the Romantic poets, whose reverence for nature never prevented them from addressing it with all the ideas and sensibilities their times allowed, Sina Queyras's stunning collection explores the infrastructures and means of modern mobility. Addressing the human project not so much as something imposed on nature but as an increasingly disturbing activity within it, Expressway exposes the paradox of modern mobility: the more roads and connections we build, the more separate we feel. 'Cleanse the doors of perception,' Blake urged, and with that in mind, Queyras has written a bravely lyrical critique of our ethical and ecological imprint, a legacy easily blamed on corporations and commerce, but one we've allowed, through our tacit acquiescence, to overwhelm us. Every brush stroke, every bolt and nut, every form and curve in our networks of oil and rubber, every thought and its material outcome – each decision can make or unmake us.
   
  'The works in Expressway are all so tightly wound, hyper-distilled and stressed ... This is poetry for the apocalypse.'
   
  —Broken Pencil
   
  'As a poet, Queyras is secretly romantic, writing with lyricism and a voice that's unafraid of sentiment or emotion ... Queyras' words spark like pickaxes on old asphalt.'
   
  — Eye Weekly
   
  'Queyras show[s] what poetry can do when it simultaneously maps roadways of transportation and lines of human thought.'
   
  —Spacing
   
  'Eclectic engagements characterize Queyras’s work, but any suggestion of characterization of her work immediately brings a morphing to something new, intelligent, and provocative ... Sina Queyras is a poet to read and reckon with.'
   
  —Lambda Literary Review

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  Captain Underhill Uncoils the...

  Steven Thomas Oney

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  In “The Whirlpool,” retired Cape Cod Police Captain Waverly Underhill and Dr. Alexander Scofield try to take a vacation but instead find themselves kidnapped by an escaped convict before being swept into the spiral maw of a monstrous tidal whirlpool, fourteen hundred feet across. Can even their wits save them from one of nature's rarest and most awesome displays of raw power?In “The Cobra in the Kindergarten,” Underhill and Scofield must find a deadly Egyptian cobra escaped in the vicinity of the Robin Hood Elementary School before it kills a child—unless, of course, it finds them first.

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