Publisher: Good Press
The American poet Longfellow is probably best known for Hiawatha, but he was an extremely gifted writer whose body of work is very large and varied, He was the first to translate Dante's Divine Comedy into English among other things. This collection represents some of his finest work.
Eighty Four is a new anthology of poetry on the subject of male suicide in aid of CALM (campaign against living miserably). Poems have been donated to the collection by Andrew McMillan, Salena Godden, Anthony Anaxogorou, Katrina Naomi, Ian Patterson, Carrie Etter, Peter Raynard and Joelle Taylor while a submissions window yielded many excellent poems on the subject from both known and hitherto unknown poets we are thrilled to have been made aware of. Curated by poet Helen Calcutt, Eighty-Four showcases human vulnerability in all its forms. From the baby in the bath who knows daddy is gone, to the woman whose father haunts her through the window, here is a diverse collection of voices, delicately speaking the intense difficulties of the human predicament, courageously engaging with the profound impact that male suicide is having on all of us. There's a glittering strength to this volume, because of the honesty from which its poems have been created, giving this book the truth it was seeking. We hope to shed light on an issue that is cast in shadow, and often shrouded in secrecy and denial. If we don't talk, we don't heal, and we don't change. In Eighty Four, we are talking. Are you listening?Show book
A sharp and savage play about the animals we are and the people we try to be. Liv is in trouble - her mum's planning a dog fight, her dad's getting out of jail, her brother's getting too close to her baby, the police are sniffing around and the pack is closing in. "From the night you were born, puppy, I knew I'd do anything for you" 'disturbing... powerful... grisly and engaging' - The Times 'Ramsden hits upon something in Breed. It is a strong offering by a clearly talented young writer' - The StageShow book
A bewitching play by Jez Butterworth, author of the global smash-hit Jerusalem. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2012. On a moonless night in August when the sea trout are ready to run, a man brings his new girlfriend to the remote family cabin where he has come for the fly-fishing since he was a boy. But she's not the only woman he has brought here – or indeed the last... 'A delicately unfolding puzzle... all of it is wrapped in marvelous language... extraordinary.' The Times 'One of the best productions of the year... a magnetically eerie, luminously beautiful psychodrama.' Time Out 'Strange, eerie, tense... Butterworth possesses a singular talent.' GuardianShow book
Sunshine is the new collection from Next Generation Poet Melissa Lee-Houghton. A writer of startling confession, her poems inhabit the lonely hotel rooms, psych wards and deserted lanes of austerity Britain. Sunshine; combines acute social observation with a dark, surreal humour born of first-hand experience. Abuse, addiction and mental health are all subject to Lee-Houghton's poetic eye. But these are also poems of extravagance, hope and desire, that stake new ground for the Romantic lyric in an age of social media and internet porn. In this new book of poems, Melissa Lee-Houghton shines a light on human ecstasy and sadness with blinding precision.Show book
A renowned film critic returns to his small Ohio hometown for a high school reunion – and to make peace with his past. The town and most of his former classmates, including the school bully, have fallen on hard times, and the successful critic soon finds himself caught up in a culture clash of economics, sex and long-submerged resentment.A winner of the Joseph Jefferson Award for best new script.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Amy Morton, William Petersen, Linda Reiter and Marc Vann.Show book
Over the centuries the Christian festival of the celebration of Christ has lost much of its religious element as it has morphed into becoming a convenient date for mass marketing and the consumption of excess food, drink and material goods to a now global audience.
But look below the glossy veneer of commercialism and we find a truer meaning, a moral message and guidance that whilst we may all want it watered down a little in these more secular times does contain some truths and principles for us all to enjoy better lives and better relationships with those around us.
In this volume of fifty poems our classic poets bring us everything from the tried and trusted view to the irreverent but mainly focus on their faith that can rejoice at this festival and makes us all part of the human race, its ideals and its joys.
1 - Fifty Shades of Christmas - An Introduction
2 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan
3 - Nativity by John Donne
4 - Wondrous Sight For Men and Angels by Ann Griffiths
5 - Angels From the Realms of Glory by James Montgomery
6 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell
7 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
8 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart
9 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale
10 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling
11 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere
12 - Carol by Ben Jonson
13 - A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
14 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton
15 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi
16 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling
17 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick
18 - A Carol. I by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland
19 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell
20 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy
21 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan
22 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan
23 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan
24 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
25 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti
26 - The Oxen by Thomas Hardy
27 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore
28 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott
29 - In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti
30 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton
31 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats
32 - Winter Sunset by Katharine Tynan
33 - Joseph by G K Chesterton
34 - The White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire
35 - A Winter's Sad Retreat by Daniel Sheehan
36 - December's Snow by Arthur Conan Doyle
37 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson
38 - Winter Heavens by George Meredith
39 - Sweetheart Winter by Vachel Lindsay
40 - The Foolish Fir Tree by Henry Van Dyke
41 - Minstrels. A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth
42 - The Mahogany Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray
43 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson
44 - Twas Just This Time Last Year I Died by Emily Dickinson
45 - The House of Christmas by G K Chesterton
46 - Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson
47 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
48 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick
49 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson
50 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
51 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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