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  The Brightening Air

  Conor McPherson

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  'You'll remember how much of living is really just forgetting.'
  The family home is more than a building. It's a destination of pilgrimage, an inherited investment, a repository of memory or magic. But, for brother and sister Stephen and Billie, home is all they've got. Mucking along in their decaying farmhouse, they're doing just fine.
  That is, until the arrival of an ex-clergyman uncle with an unscrupulous plan, a sister-in-law seeking a miracle, and a prodigal brother hell-bent on trouble…
  An entrancing tale of fate, family and unseen forces in 1980s Ireland, Conor McPherson's play The Brightening Air was the winner of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. It was first performed at The Old Vic, London, in 2025, directed by the playwright.

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  Top 10 Poets The - The War Poets...

  Wilfred Owen

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
   
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
   
  War may be called diplomacy by other means but for the youth of a nation, pressed into service for that nation, its effects are horror, terror, injury, trauma and the likelihood of death.  Within the words of these 10 poets, dreams, ambition and reality collide into some very vivid and moving words. 
  1 - The Top 10 Poets - The War Poets - An Introduction 
  2 - Soldier's Dream by Wilfred Owen 
  3 - Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen 
  4 - Futility by Wilfred Owen 
  5 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen 
  6 - Sonnet - On Seeing A Piece of Our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action by Wilfred Owen 
  7 - This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong by Edward Thomas 
  8 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas 
  9 - The Trumpet by Edward Thomas 
  10 - Cock Crow by Edward Thomas 
  11 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas 
  12 - Libido by Rupert Brooke 
  13 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke 
  14 - Desertion by Rupert Brooke 
  15 - The Funeral of Youth. Threnody by Rupert Brooke 
  16 - Soldier by Rupert Brooke 
  17 - Killed in Action by Isaac Rosenberg 
  18 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  19 - Spring 1916 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  20 - Isolation A Fragment by Isaac Rosenberg 
  21 - Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg 
  22 - The Lost Ones by Francis Ledwidge 
  23 - A Soldier's Grave by Francis Ledwidge 
  24 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 
  25 - Growing Old by Francis Ledwidge 
  26 - The Call to Ireland by Francis Ledwidge 
  27 - Blighty by Ivor Gurney 
  28 - Sonnets 1917 - V - England the Mother by Ivor Gurney 
  29 - On Somme by Ivor Gurney 
  30 - Strange Hells by Ivor Gurney 
  31 - In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Ivor Gurney 
  32 - The Dying Patriot by James Elroy Flecker 
  33 - No Coward's Song by James Elroy Flecker 
  34 - Pillage by James Elroy Flecker 
  35 - Destroyer of Ships, Men, Cities by James Elroy Flecker 
  36 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker 
  37 - The English Graves by Laurence Binyon 
  38 - The Distant Guns by Laurence Binyon 
  39 - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon 
  40 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon 
  41 - Ypres by Laurence Binyon 
  42 - A Call to Action by Charles Sorley 
  43 - A Letter From the Trenches to An Old School Friend by Charles Sorley 
  44 - Such Such Is Death by Charles Sorley 
  45 - German Rain by Charles Sorley 
  46 - To Germany by Charles Sorley 
  47 - Prayer Before Battle by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  48 - The Battle at Saarburg by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  49 - Monday in the Courtyard of the Barracks by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  50 - Soldiers' Songs by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  51 - The End by Alfred Lichtenstein

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  The Faith Machine

  Alexi Kaye Campbell

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  Travelling from America to Britain to a remote Greek island, The Faith Machine explores the relationship between faith and capitalism and asks fundamental questions about the true meaning of love.
  On a beautiful September morning in New York, Sophie forces Tom into a decision. The choice he makes, and the events of that day, will change their lives for ever.
  Alexi Kaye Campbell's play The Faith Machine premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2011.

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  Children of the Sun Part 1 - I...

  Daniel Nsengimana

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  Children of the Sun is the first installment of its self-titled trilogy. This recording is the first portion of the book, and more episodic installments will follow in the near future.  
  In a reimagined precolonial Africa, a powerful king's nephew comes home to find his nation on the brink of war. Unsure of his own next move, he joins his royal warrior cousins on their westward march to stop an invasion. Though he has no plans to fight, other problems find him on the road, pushing him toward an instability of his own. Back in the kingdom, a more distant relative is called upon to keep the peace in a land missing most of its strength. As the overt invasion looms above, she leads the king's defense against an enemy they cannot see, gathering strength right there at home. 
  All the while, old wounds inside the family and out are brought to the surface, threatening to unravel all the players involved. The demons of the past converge with the troubles of the present, giving way to an uncertain future for them all.

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  The Poetry of Dreams - The...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  ‘Perchance to dream’ is an offer that most of us would accept in the blink of an eye.  That mysterious ‘other world’ where the day’s reality is processed by our subconscious, really is a mystery, even to the experts and self-help books who decipher our beguiling imaginings with all sorts of reasonings.  Perhaps the better truth is that most of us don’t remember much about our dreams, unlike its near neighbour the nightmare!  Day-dreams too fall into a fantasy imagining where we try to re-route the natural course of events as we move from one emotion to another. 
   
  Our unconscious dreams seem essential for our mental and emotional well-being and some believe they provide solutions, answers and prophesize important events.  In the conscious world we use the word to describe our goals, desires and wishes which reveal much about who we are and our chosen path for life.   
   
  Whatever their significance may or may not be, they are universal and a subject on which our poets have much to say. 
   
  With such a rich seam to mine, our poets from Sarojini Naidu to Lewis Carroll, Edna St Vincent Millay to Shakespeare by way of Antonio Machado and Longfellow and a host of others provide a pillowful of poems that will set you dreaming. 
   
  01 - The Poetry of Dreams - An Introduction 
  02 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats 
  03 - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe 
  04 - The Dream by John Donne 
  05 - The Dream by Amy Levy 
  06 - Ay, Workman, Make Me A Dream by Stephen Crane 
  07 - House of Dreams by Sara Teasdale 
  08 - My Darling Dear, My Daisy Flower by John Skelton 
  09 - Roses of a Dream by Damon Runyon 
  10 - A Ballad of Dreamland by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  11 - Longing by Matthew Arnold 
  12 - The Dream by Alexander Pushkin 
  13 - A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe 
  14 - The Dream by Aphra Behn 
  15 - Love by Rupert Brooke 
  16 - This Faulted Dream by Daniel Sheehan 
  17 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing by William Shakespeare 
  18 - The Dream Called Life by Pedro Calderon de la Barca 
  19 - Dream Fable by Rabia al Basri 
  82 - Under the April Moon by Bliss William Carman 
  21 - Song of a Dream by Sarojini Naidu 
  22 - A Midday Dreamer by James Weldon Johnson 
  23 - Dreams Old by D H Lawrence 
  24 - A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky (Life Is But a Dream) by Lewis Carroll 
  25 - Dream Town by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  26 - A Little Boy's Dream by Katherine Mansfield 
  27 - The Opal Dream Cave by Katherine Mansfeild 
  28 - Dreams by John Dryden 
  29 - Life Tells the Dreamer by Margaret Widdemer 
  30 - Dreams by Anne Bronte 
  31 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  32 - My Dead Dream by Sarojini Naidu 
  33 - Dreams by Edgar Allen Poe 
  34 - I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark Not Day by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  35 - I Go on Dreaming of Paths by Antonio Machado 
  36 - Dreamland by Edgar Allen Poe 
  37 - I Dream'd I Lay by Robert Burns 
  38 - A Dream Lies Dead by Dorothy Parker 
  39 - Harlem by Langston Hughes 
  40 - Forgotten Dreams by Edward Silvera 
  41 - Boaz Asleep by Victor Hugo 
  42 - A Dream of Glory by Albery Allson Whitman 
  43 - I Rose From Dreamless Hours by James Elroy Flecker 
  44 - From Dewy Dreams, My Soul Arise by James Joyce 
  45 - Dream Variation by Langston Hughes 
  46 - Dreams by Robert Tannahill 
  47 - Dreams by Robert Herrick 
  48 - Dream Pediary by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 
  49 - Dreamland by Christina Rossetti 
  50 - A Nocturnal Reverie by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 
  51 - Dreams and Duty by Tom Kettle 
  52 - Last Night I Dreamed by Hafiz 
  53 - Musselman's Dream by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 
  54 - Th

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  Haphazardly in the Starless Night

  Hugh McMillan

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  Taking in the years of the pandemic, McMillan's poetry takes us on a trip through his life and imagination, his hopes, observations and dreams. It's never less than an interesting journey. He is an accessible, humorous and tender writer. He is one of Scotland's best.

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