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  Panic Response

  John McCullough

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  *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEM*
  From the mercurial mind of award-winning poet John McCullough comes his darkest and most experimental book to date. Panic Response puts personal and cultural anxiety under the microscope. It is full of things that shimmer, quiver and fizz: plankton glowing at low tide; brain tissue turning to glass; a basketball emerging from the waves, covered in barnacles. These are poems of uncertainty but also of hope, which move beyond the breathlessness of panic towards luminescence and solidarity.

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  These Mothers of Gods

  Rachel Bower

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  Rachel Bower's accomplished debut collection seeks to recover the lived experiences of women who have often appeared only fleetingly in official histories. The poems push towards a more expansive concept of motherhood, including our collective responsibilities for lives, environments and natural worlds.
  With heartfelt lyricism, Bower weaves stories of labour and love. In moments of fear and determination for survival, this collection is a hymn to the people and places which shape us.
  
  "In Rachel Bower's powerful new collection, you will find mothers displaced, mothers deceived, mothers labouring to stay sane and alive. But woven amongst any vulnerability is a fierce celebration of the mother-body, opened up to prove the unique and complex 
  stories each one holds. I am grateful to Bower for finding these women - historical, biblical, autobiographical - and offering me such inventive, arresting poems, brim-full with blistering truths."
  
  - Rebecca Goss, Poet
  
  "Powerful, compelling and exquisitely crafted, These Mothers of Gods is a tour-de-force of female-focussed storytelling."
  
  - Teika Marija Smits, Writer and Editor
  
  "Rachel Bower's poems show us mothering as we've never seen it before, through time, history, and mythology. The collection centres the voice of the other, while conveying poignant experiences of joy, elation, triumph and hardness. These image-rich verses are poems of intense curiosity and beauty."
  
  - Jason Allen-Paisant

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  Hue & Cry (NHB Modern Plays)

  Deirdre Kinahan

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  Two Dublin cousins, Damian and Kevin, are reunited for a family funeral in a highly charged encounter full of disillusion, denial and dark laughter.
  Deirdre Kinahan's short play Hue & Cry was first staged by Tall Tales theatre company at Bewley's Café Theatre, Dublin, in 2007.
  The play is also available in the collection Deirdre Kinahan: Shorts.

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  Rudyard Kipling - Chapter &...

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - Rudyard Kipling - An Introduction 
  2 - Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling 
  3 - If by Rudyard Kipling 
  4 - My Father's Chair by Rudyard Kipling 
  5 - My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling 
  6 - Mother O' Mine by Rudyard Kipling 
  7 - A Death Bed by Rudyard Kipling 
  8 - The English Flag by Rudyard Kipling 
  9 - Tommy by Rudyard Kipling 
  10 - Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling 
  11 - In Springtime by Rudyard Kipling 
  12 - To the City of Bombay by Rudyard Kipling 
  13 - Cities and Thrones and Powers by Rudyard Kipling 
  14 - The Prairie by Rudyard Kipling 
  15 - The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling 
  16 - Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling

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  Paradise Regain'd (version 2)

  John Milton

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  Having been publicly acknowledged as God's "beloved Son," Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Messiah, about whose coming many conflicting opinions have been circulating among the Jews. Although a learned rabbi, Jesus possesses no knowledge beyond what is available to all human beings. Satan also takes a new interest in this favored "son of God" and seeks to learn what threat he constitutes. The poem consists of a debate between these two adversaries, each seeking the same understanding of precisely what mankind's Savior will do in a world where the way to success typically lies through "wealth . . . honour . . . arms . . . arts . . . Kingdom . . . Empire . . . life contemplative, / Or active, tended on by glory, or fame." By withstanding Satan's temptation to all such worldly paths, Jesus proves himself to be a perfect, unfallen man and consequently worthy to win back paradise for mankind. Repeatedly invited to take action—either to secure his kingdom or to prove himself deserving of the divine favor that has been shown him or simply to save his life—he resists, patiently suffering, withstanding, waiting. Yet he learns from his temptation, clarifying in his own mind what his mission on earth must be and the means to achieve it. For although Satan knows no more of his mission than he does himself, Satan points the way by offering the wrong goals or the wrong motives or the wrong means. Thus the Father of Lies against his will opens the way to salvation for human kind. (Summary by Thomas Copeland)

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  The Poetry of Art - Creative and...

  Thomas Chatterton

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  Art comes in many shapes and sizes and many different forms.  And one person’s art is often someone else’s object of derision. 
   
  But what we can all agree on is that Art exists, that it’s something perhaps unique to humankind but very definitely evokes a deep reaction whether of ‘wow!’ or ‘what?’   
   
  In this volume we take Art as our subject and have it reviewed and explored by other Artists, by Classic Poets. 
   
  True Art ignites an individual response or a collective awareness.  Our DNA seems to cultivate that.  When we engage with Art the results are at times as surprising as they are interesting. 
   
  In the words of Keats, Shakespeare, Wharton, Chatterton and very many others Art is seen and understood both as that individual reaction and a collective experience.  Art is where it’s at. 
   
  01 - The Poetry of Art - An Introduction 
  02 - The Man With the Blue Guitar by Wallace Stevens 
  03 - Botticlelli’s Madonna in the Louvre by Edith Wharton 
  04 - Before a Painting by James Weldon Johnson 
  05 - Sonnet 20 - A Woman's Face with Nature's Own Hand Painted by William Shakespeare 
  06 - Sonnet 24 - Mine Eye Hath Played the Painter and Hath Steeled by William Shakespeare 
  07 - Sonnet 83 - I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need by William Shakespeare 
  08 - Art and Heart  by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  09 - Colors by Stephen Vincent Benet 
  10 - I Have Colours in My Head by Daniel Sheehan 
  11 - I Would Not Paint a Picture by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - To the Painter, To Draw Him a Picture by Robert Herrick 
  13 - On Mr Alcock of Bristol, an Excellent Miniature Painter by Thomas Chatterton 
  14 - On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  15 - Portrait d'une Femme by Ezra Pound 
  16 - To a Beautiful Female Portrait by Henry Alford 
  17 - The Portrait by Ford Madox Ford 
  18 - Her Portrait Immortal by Richard Le Gallienne 
  19 - My Last Duchess by Robert Browning 
  20 - Portrait of My Father As a Young Man by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  21 - On a Portrait of Dante by Giotto by James Russell Lowell 
  22 - Written Under a Portrait of Keats by John Boyle O'Reily 
  23 - On Seeing the Elgin Marbles For the First Time by John Keats 
  24 - Jade by Edith Wharton 
  25 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  26 - An Inscription for Zheng Shujin's Painting by Qiu Jin 
  27 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  28 - Rome - Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy 
  29 - How Many Paltry Foolish Painted Things by Michael Drayton 
  30 - To the Painter of an Ill Drawn Picture of Cleone by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 
  31 - An Art Critic by Ambrose Bierce 
  32 - A Portrait by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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