D'autres livres qui pourraient vous intéresser

• 

  The Poetry of World War One

  Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy,...

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse.
  
  These poems - considered the greatest written during WWI and some of the greatest poetry of the twentieth century - show the horror of war but also shine a light on the strength of human courage, bravery, and virtue.
  
  The full list of poets included in this collection are:
  
  Thomas Hardy; Isaac Rosenberg; Rupert Brooke; Katharine Tynan; Jessie Pope; Charles Hamilton Sorley; Laurence Binyon; Wallace Stevens; May Wedderburn Cannan; Vera Mary Brittain; May Sinclair; Robert Nichol; John McCrae; Siegfried Sassoon; Edward Thomas; Alan Seeger; Edith Wharton; Edward Thomas; Sara Teasdale; Julian Grenfell; WB Yeats; Margaret Postgate Cole; Rudyard Kipling; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson; Arthur Graeme West; Henry Newbolt; Robert W. Service; Florence Ripley Mastin; Anna Gordon Keown; Wilfred Owen; Robert Graves; Francis Ledwidge; Ivor Gurney; Mary Borden; Gertrude Stein; Carl Sandburg; Robert Nichols; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; John Peale Bishop; Charlotte Mew; Ezra Pound; Carl Sandburg; Robert Frost; Edgell Rickword; Hervey Allen; G. K. Chesterton; Edmund Blunden; A. E. Housman; Ernest Hemingway; Jessie St. John.

  Voir livre

• 

  A Dream (NHB Modern Plays)

  Chris Bush

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Packed with songs, mischief and mistaken identities, this riotous and joyful play transports Shakespeare's most beloved characters to the chaos of a busy modern-day hospital.
  Romeo and Jules are recovering from an accidental overdose, Antony and Cleo are reminiscing in the waiting room, and Beatrice and Benedict are bickering over the cause of the latter's knee operation.
  As night falls on A&E, and Pharmacist Puck starts to dole out medicine, a very midsummer madness begins to take root…
  Chris Bush's A Dream was first performed at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, in a production by Sheffield People's Theatre.
  The Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series features large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults.

  Voir livre

• 

  Mother Daughter Augur

  Mary Simmons

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Mary Simmons’s debut is a world unto itself: a dark storybook realm, lush and full of eerie possibility, a place outside of time where women move in different forms and pass on warnings and wisdom. In the spirit of a Victorian naturalist’s collection, this book brings together found elements from nature, folklore, mythology, ballet, and oral tradition, crafting a strange, kaleidoscopic beauty and complicating inherited definitions of femininity. As these poems blur dichotomies—maiden and witch, mother and daughter, friend and lover—they reach for a new vision of womanhood beyond the bounds of roles and expectations, one that is mystical, ethereal, a little dangerous, and inherently queer. In the process, they tap into deep currents of yearning, grapple with corporeality, raise larger questions about love and what lasts, and find meaning in the uncanny and the macabre. In these pages are insects and omens, wolves and birds and weird apparitions, Odile and Ophelia, even a seventeenth-century professional poisoner. Original, atmospheric, and immersive, this is a work like no other: a tour through an enchanted forest, a darkness that’s illuminating.

  Voir livre

• 

  Poems for Middle and High School...

  Edward Dyer, William...

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Poems for Middle and High School Students
   
  
  Read by Connie Dangel and Martin Siemienski

  Voir livre

• 

  The Poetry of Claude McKay - A...

  Claude McKay

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Festus Claudius McKay was born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica on the 15th September 1890, He was the youngest son to parents who had gathered enough assets to secure them the right to vote. 
   
  As a boy he was fascinated by English Poetry and literature, although at 17 he took on work as an apprentice woodcutter for two years before becoming a police constable in the capital, Kingston.  In this mainly white and affluent town racism was rife and its nature awakened his political instincts and pursuit of social justice.  He soon returned home and published his first two poetry collections in 1912. 
   
  By the early 1920’s he had travelled extensively across the United States and parts of Europe and was recognised as a very talented poet and an essential founding component of the Harlem Renaissance.   
   
  As well as poetry he also wrote several novels and was a dedicated activist for social reform.  
   
  By the late 1930s he had developed a deep interest in Catholicism and several years later moved to Chicago as a teacher for a Catholic organisation. 
   
  By the mid 1940’s several illnesses has further debilitated his health. 
   
  Claude McKay died of heart failure on the 22nd May 1948.  He was 57.

  Voir livre

• 

  A Dedication to Drowning

  Maeve McKenna

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  In this raw and moving debut chapbook, Maeve McKenna dives into the multitudes of womanhood: a mother, unmothered; a lover, alone; a child, now aged. She flings the cover off pain that would otherwise remain hidden and unspoken, exposing the most intimate parts of herself. In doing so, she invites the reader to embrace their own vulnerabilities, calling, "Let's assemble our bodies, limb to limb against/the walls of unoccupied margins, hope pointed/like the scope of a firing squad...I am writing it for you. For me."
  Prepare to be undone. Maeve McKenna's debut pamphlet 'A Dedication to Drowning' will leave you gasping for breath, head and heart battered and bruised by its ferocious, unflinching energy. Here is a poet that does not shy away from the hard edges of life where "each day is birth and a burial" - Gerard Beirne, Author of 'Games of Chance: A Gambler's Manual' (poetry)

  Voir livre