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  The Apothecary of Flight

  Jane Burn

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  The Apothecary of Flight by Jane Burn is a heady flight into the art of poetry itself: its vital importance as a tool for expression; for understanding and translating the self; for articulating the sheer force and joy of poetry and the way, for a person with autism, it can hold, identify and celebrate both the smallest and weightiest of life's experiences and concepts.
  These unfettered and exquisite poems pulse with the details of both the wild and tame, the sacred and the humane – observing nature and animals with an artist's eye, capturing the ways in which place and time can hold the experiences of the body, memory and identity. This ongoing dialogue with poetry itself sets a visionary path towards discovery – the page as a place to root oneself, a place of deep creative freedom, self-permission, belonging and defiance. Ultimately, the form, presence and physicality of Burn's extraordinary poems move us with compassion towards the happiest solitude of words, and of love.

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  Purgatorio

  Alighieri Dante

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  Purgatorio, the second canticle of Dante Alighieri's monumental epic The Divine Comedy, is a profound and poetic exploration of redemption, transformation, and the soul's ascent toward divine grace. Following the harrowing descent through the depths of Hell in Inferno, Dante now turns his gaze upward—toward hope, purification, and spiritual renewal.
  
  The journey begins at dawn on the shores of Mount Purgatory, a towering mountain rising from the ocean in the Southern Hemisphere. Having witnessed the despair of the damned, Dante, guided by the Roman poet Virgil, now encounters souls who suffer not in eternal punishment, but in patient expectation. These souls are the repentant—those who turned toward God before death and now undergo purification to cleanse themselves of lingering sin. Unlike the hopeless anguish of Hell, Purgatory is filled with longing, humility, prayer, and even song. It is a realm of hope.
  
  Structured as a mountain with seven terraces, each corresponding to one of the seven deadly sins—pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust—Purgatorio presents sin not merely as wrongdoing, but as distorted love. Through symbolic punishments that mirror and heal their earthly faults, souls learn to redirect their desires toward divine goodness. As Dante ascends each level, he witnesses profound examples of repentance, hears moving prayers, and engages in philosophical and theological discussions that explore free will, grace, justice, and the nature of true happiness.
  
  What distinguishes Purgatorio is its luminous tone. The darkness of Inferno gives way to starlight, music, friendship, and anticipation. The poetry reflects a gradual movement from shadow into radiance, culminating in the Earthly Paradise at the mountain's summit. Here, Dante encounters Beatrice, the embodiment of divine wisdom and love, who will guide him further into the celestial realms of Paradiso.
  
  At its heart, Purgatorio is a meditation on growth—the painful yet beautiful process of becoming worthy of heaven. It speaks to the universal human experience of failure, repentance, and the longing for transformation. Through vivid imagery, rich allegory, and profound insight, Dante portrays purification not as punishment, but as mercy in action.
  
  Timeless and deeply moving, Purgatorio stands as one of literature's greatest reflections on hope, resilience, and the enduring possibility of redemption.

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  The Strange Egg - A Symptoms Diary

  Kirstie Millar

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  'Doctor, I had a terrible dream.
  In my dream I saw my own body, and I saw what you will do to it.'
  A woman is faced, month after month, with the birth of a strange egg. Her doctor asks that she take notes on her symptoms, documenting black blood clots as big as pennies, winking stars in her eyes, and relentless pain. As the woman waits for aid from her doctor, she begins to have strange premonitions of what will be done to her body. The egg, meanwhile, is watchful and demanding. Impatient.
  The Strange Egg is as gorgeous as it is horrifying. Highly original, it challenges long-held beliefs that people of marginalised genders are unreliable and irrational witnesses to our own bodies.
  The Strange Egg is a luminous gothic prose poem that delves into the mythopoeic to express injustice at the hands of abusive medical systems.

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  The Crazy Bunch - Penguin Poets

  Willie Perdomo

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  From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era 
    
  Willie Perdomo, a native of East Harlem, has won praise as a hip, playful, historically engaged poet whose restlessly lyrical language mixes “city life with a sense of the transcendent” (NPR.org). In his fourth collection, The Crazy Bunch, Perdomo returns to his beloved neighborhood to create a vivid, kaleidoscopic portrait of a “crew” coming of age in East Harlem at the beginning of the 1990s. In poems written in couplets, vignettes, sketches, riffs, and dialogue, Perdomo recreates a weekend where surviving members of the crew recall a series of tragic events: “That was the summer we all tried to fly. All but one of us succeeded." 
    
  “This immersive poetry collection proceeds like a mixtape or a gnostic gospel … Oracular, intoxicating … Perdomo’s vibrant diction refashions the high lyric, drawing on local cant to render the intimacy of home, friendship, and shared loss. Part rhapsody, part elegy, the book memorializes neighborhood legends, and, even as it impishly indulges nostalgic romance, it never forgets, or forgives, the violence that threatens these young lives.”—The New Yorker 

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  Headlong Hall

  Thomas Love Peacock

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  Headlong Hall is the first novel by Thomas Love Peacock, published in 1815 (dated 1816). As in his later novel Crotchet Castle, Peacock assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and derives humor and social satire from their various interactions and conversations. The setting is the country estate of Squire Harry Headlong Ap-Rhaiader, Esq. in Wales. (Summary by Wikipedia) 
   
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  Narrator: Timothy FergusonMr. Escot: John FrickerMr. Foster: Mike PeltonMr. Jenkison: Leonard WilsonReverend Doctor Gaster & Mr. Chromatic: ToddHWMr. Milestone: TriciaGHarry Headlong, Esquire & Old Squire: Algy PugMr. MacLaurel: Delmar H. DolbierMr. Cranium, Mr. Panscope, Graziosa Chromatic, Mr. Nightshade: Amy GramourThe Sexton: Martin GeesonMiss Brindle-mew: Ruth GoldingCephalis & Tenorina Chromatic: Liberty StumpMr. Gall & Mr. Treacle: hoardacSir Patrick O'Prism: DublinGothicMiss Philomela Poppyseed: Bev J. StevensCaprioletta: Amanda FridayAudio edited by: Amy Gramour

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  Here (NHB Modern Plays)

  Clive Judd

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  A family packs into a small house with a tangled history. Matt is here, yearning to reach someone he's lost. His cousin Jess is here, too; she just wants to feel something. Anything. And Aunt Monica and Jeff are still here, just about. Together, ferocious and funny, they laugh, they scrap, they remember.
  Tonight these four people, inextricably bound yet so far apart, will finally confront the old decisions that haunt them. How does a family make a future, when everything that holds it together lies in the past?
  Clive Judd's play Here is a tender, funny and utterly truthful story about family and feeling. It was premiered by Papatango at Southwark Playhouse, London, in November 2022 after winning the Papatango New Writing Prize, whose previous discoveries have gone on to win Olivier, Critics' Circle and OffWestEnd Awards and be performed worldwide.

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