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  The Poetry Of Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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  The Poetry of ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born on 5th November, 1850 in Wisconsin. She started writing poetry at the age of 7 and derived an income from her poems as a teenager.  She married Robert Wilcox and together they shared a deep interest in mysticism, spiritualism and theosophy, travelling the world to learn more and socialising and spreading their ideas back in their home in Conneticut which was named Bungalow Court. Popularly known as the poetess of passion her work is often quoted by a wide variety of public figures from Diana, the Princess of Wales and Margaret Thatcher to F Scott Fitzgerald and Jack London.  The universal themes and simple expression often convey fundamental truths.  Laugh and the world laughs with you,  Weep, and you weep alone; and  "Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes" are just a couple of her insightful lines that live on for every new generation. These poems are read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe.

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  Treny - Laments

  Jan Kochanowski

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  Jan Kochanowski (1530-84) was the greatest Polish poet of his time and probably the most famous name in Polish literature before Adam Mickiewicz (1798 - 1855). His masterpiece is considered to be his Laments, a series of nineteen poems commemorating his daughter Ursula, who died in 1579 at the age of two and a half . In simple but eloquent language, Kochanowski describes his journey from savage grief to reconciliation, and even in translation his verse retains much of its power and conviction. 
  In this bilingual presentation each poem will be read first in the original Polish and then in English translation. (Summary by Algy Pug) 
  W swoim slynnym cyklu dziewietnastu trenów Jan Kochanowski opisuje swój ból po stracie córeczki Urszuli a takze zastanawia sie nad natura cierpienia przywolujac przyklady z historii i mitologii.  
  Kazdy z wierszy czytany jest najpierw po polsku, a pózniej w tlumaczeniu angielskim. (Podsumowanie: Piotr Nater)

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  Fifty Shades of April - 50 of...

  John Clare, Hafiz, Henry...

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  The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar historically brings April showers, sunshine, touches of warmth and bursts of colour from tree and land. Buds, blossom, leaves, the great symphony of nature cascades across the landscape. Wildlife has new broods of life to nurture and provide for. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of April - An Introduction 
  02 - In April by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  03 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  04 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge 
  05 - April Rain by Mathilde Blind 
  06 - Here by the Brimming April Streams by Phillip Henry Savage 
  07 - An April Afternoon by Alexander Anderson 
  08 - April by Sara Teasdale 
  09 - On a Nightingale in April by William Sharpe 
  10 - The Idlers Calender - April - Trout Fishing by William Scawen Blunt 
  11 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare 
  12 - Loveliest Of Trees, The Cherry Now by A E Housman 
  13 - Sonnet To April by Henry Kirk White 
  14 - Sonnet VIII - To Spring by Charlotte Smith 
  15 - Under the April Moon by Bliss William Carman 
  16 - A Petition To April, Written During Sickness by Susanna Blamire 
  17 - The Soul of April by Bliss William Carman 
  18 - The Days of Spring by Hafiz 
  19 - A Pang Is More Conspicuous in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  20 - Easter by Edmund Spenser 
  21 - A Spring Carol by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  22 - Dublin, Easter 1916 by Alice Furlong 
  23 - April Evening, France, April 1916 by John William Streets 
  24 - In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Edward Thomas 
  25 - April, 1918 by Henry Christopher Bradby 
  26 - Elegy in April and September by Wilfred Owen 
  27 - The Easter Flower by Claude McKay 
  28 - April 1844 by Henry Alford 
  29 - Sheep and Lambs by Katharine Tynan 
  30 - Child's Talk in April by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  31 - An April Fool by Alfred Austin 
  32 - The Famous Speech Maker of England or Baron Lovel's Charge at the Assizes at Exon April 5th 1710 by Jonathan Swift 
  33 - Paul Revere's Ride (The Landlord's Tale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  34 - Rome - Building a New Street in The Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - Spring in New Hampshire by Claude McKay 
  36 - April by John Bannister Tabb 
  37 - Home Thoughts From Abroad by Robert Browning 
  38 - Stanzas April 1814 by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  39 - Over the Lands In April by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  40 - Spring Morning by A E Housman 
  41 - Cuckoo Song By Rudyard Kipling 
  42 - It Was an April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth 
  43 - April by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  44 - An April Love by Alfred Austin 
  45 - Another Song - an extract from Divine Songs and Meditacions by An Collins 
  46 - Sonnet 98 - From You Have I Been Absent in the Spring by William Shakespeare 
  47 - So Sweet Love Seemed That April Morn by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  48 - My April Lady by Henry Van Dyke 
  49 - Love Like an April Day Beguiles by James Bland Burgess 
  50 - With A Guitar, To Jane by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  51 - The Shepheardes Calendar IV - April by Edmund Spenser

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  Northeast Local

  Tom Donaghy

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  Mickey and Gina are a blue collar couple with the whole world ahead of them, until Tom’s drinking and Gina’s unrealized dreams tear them apart. Set against a backdrop of American history from the turbulent 60’s through the 80’s AIDS crisis, Northeast Local is a bittersweet journey through marriage, divorce, and its aftermath.An L.A. theatre Works full-cast performance, starring: Amy Pietz, Kevin Kilner, Judy Blue, Linda Kimbrough, Lusia Strus, Greg Vinkler, Ann Whitney, and Kenny Williams.Directed by Susan V. Booth. Recorded before a live audience by L.A. Theatre Works.

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  Theatre Royal - The Luck of...

  Bret Harte, Charles Dickens

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  Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave, and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the worlds’ leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Anton Chekhov.  These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first installment of theatrical history.

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  Clockfire

  Jonathan Ball

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  Finalist for the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry!
   
  A spotlight appears to light a large, ornate grandfather clock. The clock displays the correct time and is in perfect working order.
   
  The actors sneak behind the audience and set the theatre on ?re.
   
  Exeunt.
   
  
   
  
   
  Jonathan Ball’s Clock?re is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce – plays in which, for example, the director burns out the sun, actors murder their audience or the laws of physics are de?led. The poems in a sense replace the need for drama, and are predicated on the idea that modern theatre lacks both ‘clocks’ and ‘?re’ and thus fails to offer its audiences immediate, violent engagement. They sometimes resemble the scores for Fluxus ‘happenings,’ but replace the casual aesthetic and DIY simplicity of Fluxus art with something more akin to the brutality of Artaud’s theatre of cruelty. Italo Calvino as rewritten by H. P. Lovecraft, Ball’s ‘plays’ break free of the constraints of reality and artistic category to revel in their own dazzling, magni?cent horror.
  
   
  ‘In these spare, nightmarish theatrescapes, Ball directs our ‘impossible dreams’ by blurring the script between actor and audience, the real and the staged, the lived and the dreamed, the self and the other ... At times reading more as horror-film treatments than prose poems(no doubt Ball’s intention), Clockfire finds its strength in irony.’ – Winnipeg Free Press
  
   
  ‘[Ball is] one of our most exciting young poets.’ – Robert Kroetsch, author of The Studhorse Man

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