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  Bach & Sons (NHB Modern Plays)

  Nina Raine

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  Johann Sebastian Bach, irascible and turbulent, writes music of sensuous delight and deep religious fervour. He's touchy, he's fabulously rude, he has impossibly high standards (he stabs a bassoonist for playing badly), and he's constantly in trouble with his patrons.
  Music is the family business – but the burden of their father's genius weighs heavily on his sons. Wilhelm is brilliant but self-destructive. Tense, industrious Carl is more successful than his father, but knows he is less talented. As the years pass, their rivalry provokes furious arguments about love, God and above all music. What is it for – to give pleasure, like a cup of coffee in the sun, or to reveal the divine order that gives life its meaning?
  Beautiful, profound and funny, Nina Raine's play Bach & Sons is a gripping family drama and an anthem to the art that draws us together and sings of our common humanity. It premiered at the Bridge Theatre, London, in June 2021, directed by Nicholas Hytner, with Simon Russell Beale playing J. S. Bach.

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  Night & Ox

  Jordan Scott

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  bronchia thinkform a bombsightthink periosteum singingparticle falconry workpiecetwo lowcut hills seekingwhat stone isfor bodyis herdalliterations
  
   
  Night & Ox is a long poem working its interruptions to a degree where it's broken by the will to live. A poem that invokes expansive loneliness, where the poet's emotional response is to endure. A crushed line of astral forms and anatomy in perpetual remove; it is a poem that nurtures vulnerability: some soft-footed embryo sounds against language’s viscera. Night & Ox possesses a feral minimalism for those too tired and too frantic with joy to cope with narrative.
  
   
  ‘A fierce, ladderlike cri de cÅ?ur – at times a cri de cur – Night & Ox pulses with sawblade nocturnes that gnaw through the very rungs on which they’re wrung. One part Jabberwocky-talkie, one part fatherhood ode, the poem seeks a threshold, where the “mondayescent�* gives way to ardour, splendour, even love. Scott is a cosmoglot of the throat’s ravine, and this is his manic, pandemonic article of faith.’ – Andrew Zawacki
  
   
  Praise for Blert:
  
   
  ‘Scott takes us down to the basement of words, where sound and rhythm rule, and poets learn their craft. Blert is a strange and gorgeous work of linguistic materialism.' – Dennis Lee

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  Poets of the 19th Century The -...

  EMILY DICKINSON, Thomas Hardy,...

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  This is a Century for the history books.  The Chinese curse of living in interesting times could not be more suited. 
   
  A small island continued its expansion across the globe bringing both good and evil in its march. Empires clashed. Revolution shook many. The Industrial Age was upon us. 
   
  Poets spoke up against slavery bringing social and political pressure upon an abominable horror. It was also the Age of the Romantics; Shelley, Keats, Byron lyrically rapture.  Tennyson, Arnold, Browning rode a century of sweeping change of dynamism and great verse.

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  Fifty Shades of July - 50 of the...

  Walt Whitman, William Blake,...

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  The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar saunters into mid-summer.  Temperatures rise still further.  The landscape may wilt under oppressive heat but is still a spectacle of colour and structure that only Mother Nature has the resources for. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of July - An Introduction 
  2 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman 
  3 - An Afternoon in July by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon 
  4 - I Saw England - July Night by Ivor Gurney 
  5 - A Soldiers Cemetery by John William Streets (Killed and Missing in Action on 1st July 1916 Aged 31) 
  6 - July 2nd 1863 by Tom Reynolds 
  7 - Fourth of July by Julia A Moore 
  8 - July 4th 1857 by Alfred Gibbs Campbell 
  9 - America, From The National Ode July 4th 1876 by James Bayard Taylor 
  10 - 4th July 1882, Malines, Midnight by James Kenneth Stephen 
  11 - Ode For the 4th of July by James Monroe Whitfield 
  12 - Ode For July 4th 1917 by H P Lovecraft 
  13 - Broadway, New York, July 1916 by George Sterling 
  14 - London in July by Amy Levy 
  15 - St Martin's Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  16 - Between the Dusk of Summer by William Ernest Henley 
  17 - In This Summer by Daniel Sheehan 
  18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare 
  19 - A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly 
  20 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  21 - The Sweets of the Rose  by Hafiz 
  22 - The Rose by John Cournos 
  23 - The Secret Rose by William Butler Yeats 
  24 - The Forest Path by Lucy Maud Montgomery 
  25 - Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats 
  26 - Sailing to Byzantium by W B Yeats 
  27 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  28 - On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats 
  29 - Clouds by Mirabai 
  30 - Breton Afternoon by Ernest Christopher Dowson 
  31 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen 
  32 - How the Old Mountains Drip With Sunset by Emily Dickinson 
  33 - The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  34 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford 
  35 - July 9th 1872 by Abram Joseph Ryan 
  36 - On Leaving Ireland, July 14th 1916 by Tom Kettle 
  37 - On My Sons Return Out of England July 17th 1661 by Anne Bradstreet 
  38 - Sonnet July 18th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles 
  39 - Verses Upon the Burning of Our House July 18th 1666 by Anne Bradstreet 
  40 - Written in July by Samuel Rogers 
  41 - Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  42 - The School Boy by William Blake 
  43 - Answer July by Emily Dickinson 
  44 - Towser, a True Tale, 20th July 1806 by Robert Tannahill 
  45 - Summer Dawn by William Morris 
  46 - Summer by Alexander Pope 
  47 - A Night Rain in Summer by James Henry Leigh Hunt 
  48 - Summer Night by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  49 - Sonnet at Dover Cliffs July 20th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles 
  50 - Picnic July 1917 by Rose Macaulay 
  51 - Sonnet at Ostend July 22nd 1787 by William Lisle Bowles

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  Quatrain

  Omar Khayyám

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Quatrain by Omar Khayyám. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 29, 2012. 
   
  This is the first known English translation of a quatrain by Omar Khayyám. It appeared in Sir William Jones's "A Grammar of the Persian Language" (1771). (Introduction by Algy Pug)

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  Don Quixote

  Madison Cawein

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  Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. He worked there for six years, saving his pay so he could return home to write.His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. He soon earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky".Note: In Greek mythology, Hippocrene was the name of a spring on Mt. Helicon. It was sacred to the Muses and was formed by the hooves of Pegasus. Its name literally translates as "Horse's Fountain" and the water was supposed to bring forth poetic inspiration when imbibed. - Summary by Wikipedia

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