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  Speed

  Mohamed-Zain Dada

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  'I don't get angry, people get angry at me. In fact, I've only ever sworn once in a car… in English.'
  In a hotel basement somewhere in Birmingham, three people – a nurse, a delivery driver and an entrepreneur – are attending a speed-awareness course to address their aggressive driving.
  Abz, a leading expert on road safety and the most in-demand course facilitator north of the M25, presents them with a choice: change your ways, or lose your licence. But the training course quickly veers into a tumultuous group-therapy session as they are forced to confront the real question: why are we all so angry?
  Mohamed-Zain Dada's play Speed is a breakneck journey through the daily annoyances and deep-buried secrets that leave us spinning. Wickedly comic and darkly thrilling, it was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Milli Bhatia.

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  Born in the USA - Exploring...

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Hart...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. 
   
  The United States may be many things: the world’s policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. 
   
  Little wonder that’s its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art.  Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up.   
   
  The great state of Ohio, also known as the “Buckeye State” is a bell-weather state in most elections, famed for its history, manufacturing prowess and its contribution to the union in the arts and culture.  Times in the rust belt have undeniably turned harder buts its poetic history continues to illuminate with verse from such mighty pens as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ambrose Bierce, Hart Crane and Alice Cary.  Genius in every name.

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  What Color Is Goodness?

  Emily Morrison

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  Inspired by the question of her cartwheeling five-year-old niece, “Emmy, What Color is Goodness?,” this poem was written to help readers find goodness in the most unexpected places.First-time author EMILY MORRISON offers a vision of kindness, acceptance, and understanding in unsettled times within this beautiful poem, featuring the delightful illustrations of accomplished artist PAM MCDONNELL. The book is a discovery of the infinite colors of goodness and all the places where it can be found. In its exploration, the tale takes the reader through all the colors of the rainbow, delving inside brown boxes and ribboned packages, in dark grey spaces, and even deep inside all of us. Goodness is found while dancing wildly, singing joyfully and in quiet spaces with almost no color. Morrison hopes to transport readers to a world where poetry tells a powerful story that relates to audiences of all ages. She believes lyrical poetry has the power to inspire emotions that can create change. What Color Is Goodness? explores friendships, vulnerability, mindfulness, gratitude, acceptance, and community, lessons that connect all generations.

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  An Old Song Half Forgotten

  Deirdre Kinahan

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  A play that opens a window into the life and soul of an older actor who is living in care with Alzheimer's disease, rebuilding a man just as he begins to crack and fade.
  Deirdre Kinahan's short play An Old Song, Half Forgotten was first staged by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in April 2023, performed by Bryan Murray.
  In 2024, Deirdre Kinahan and Bryan Murray were jointly awarded the inaugural Pratchett Prize for challenging the stigma of Alzheimer's Disease through the play.

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  Poets on Poets - Famous poets...

  Thomas Hood, Alice Meynell,...

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  Writing poetry always seems to be something we learn at school, usually beginning with a couplet of child-like rhyme that brings gales of laughter.  Later it may be agonising over a verse or two attempting to rhapsodise on love and then the years roll on with only an occasional desire to return.   
   
  In this volume we put together wordsmiths of the highest caliber as they write on Poets themselves.  Many of the poems provide valuable insights on how other poets are seen by their peers.  Some are deeply personal others are abstract.  Whether they speak at the celebration of a birth or the knowing tragedy of entering a slaughterous battle these poets take us into new uncharted territories revealing their inner selves in raw and tender ways. 
   
  Yeats, Flecker, Benet, Yeats, Dickinson, Coleridge, Millay, Levy, Gurney are but a few of their number who speak with the clarity, the eloquence and the truth that only a poet can know….but all can share. 
   
  01 - Poets on Poets - An Introduction 
  02 - A Caution to Poets by Matthew Arnold 
  03 - To a Poet by Emily Hickey 
  04 - To a Poet by Alice Meynell 
  05 - To a Poet by Claude McKay 
  06 - To Poets by Charles Sorley 
  07 - The Poet by Aleksandr Pushkin 
  08 - The Poet by Radclyffe Hall 
  09 - The Poet by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  10 - The Poet to Nature by Alice Meynell 
  11 - Sonnet VII - Sweet Poet of the Woods by Charlotte Smith 
  12 - To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time by Countee Cullen 
  13 - False Poets and True (To Wordsworth) by Thomas Hood 
  14 - On Dryden by Christopher Caudwell 
  15 - On Poet-Ape by Ben Jonson 
  16 - On the Morals of Poets by Richard Le Gallienne 
  17 - The Poets by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  18 - The Toast by Ernest Rhys 
  19 - A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benet 
  20 - To Alex Smith, the Glasgow Poet by George Meredith 
  21 - The Peasant Poet by John Clare 
  22 - London Poets by Amy Levy 
  23 - Negro Poets by Charles Bertram Johnson 
  24 - A Poet's Hope by Ambrose Bierce 
  25 - The Poet's Portion by Thomas Hood 
  26 - Poets by Khalil Gibran 
  27 - The Poet's Apology by Aristophanes 
  28 - A Tale of the Miser and His Poet by Anne Kingsmill Finch 
  29 - The Poet, the Oyster and Sensitive Plant by William Cowper 
  30 - The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad by Robert Herrick 
  31 - Besides The Autumn Poets Sing by Emily Dickinson 
  32 - A Poet of One Mood by Alice Meynell 
  33 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds  by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  34 - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers by W B Yeats 
  35 - Singers To Come by Alice Meynell 
  36 - To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker 
  37 - The Young Poet by James Elroy Flecker 
  38 - Portrait of the Author by William Carlos Williams 
  39 - The Modern Poet - A Song of Derivations by Alice Meynell 
  40 - The Poet to His Childhood by Alice Meynell 
  37 - A Poet's Father by Ambrose Bierce 
  42 - A Poet's Welcome To His Love Begotten Daughter by Robert Burns 
  43 - A Poet to His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson 
  44 - Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  45 - The Martyr Poets - Did Not Tell by Emily Dickinson 
  46 - Trench Poets by Edgell Rickword 
  47 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon 
  48 - A Poet Unknown by Ernest Rhys 
  49 - To the Poet Before Battle by Ivor Gurney 
  50 - The Poets Are Waiting by Harold Munro 
  51 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 
  52 - The Poet's Knowledge by Raymond Chandler 
  53 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas 
  54 - This Was A Poet - It Is That by Emily Dickinson 
  55 - The Old Poet by Amy Levy 
  56 - The Old Poet by James Elroy Flecker 
  57 - The

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  Her Birth and Later Years - New...

  Irena Klepfisz

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  Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry (2023)Finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, Berru Award for Poetry, in memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash (2022)A trailblazing lesbian poet, child Holocaust survivor, and political activist whose work is deeply informed by socialist values, Irena Klepfisz is a vital and individual American voice. This book is the first complete collection of her work. For fifty years, Klepfisz has written powerful, searching poems about relatives murdered during the war, recent immigrants, a lost Yiddish writer, a Palestinian boy in Gaza, and various people in her life. In her introduction to Klepfisz's A Few Words in the Mother Tongue, Adrienne Rich wrote: "[Klepfisz's] sense of phrase, of line, of the shift of tone, is almost flawless." Her Birth and Later Years was a Finalist for the Jewish Book Award and winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.

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