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  Caedmon's Hymn

  Caedmon

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  Cædmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch (657–681). Originally ignorant of the art of song, Cædmon learned to compose one night in the course of a dream. Cædmon’s only known surviving work is Cædmon’s Hymn, the nine-line alliterative vernacular praise poem in honour of the Christian god he supposedly learned to sing in his initial dream. The poem is one of the earliest attested examples of Old English and is one of three candidates for the earliest attested example of Old English poetry. It is also one of the earliest recorded examples of sustained poetry in a Germanic language. (Summary from wikipedia)

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  Prescription for Disaster -...

  Sunday Blackwell

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  After Jayden Lincoln, a New York Times bestselling author, wrongly receives a potentially lethal dose of a trial drug, he now must fight for his own life. While Jayden’s lawyer would eventually turn on him before the case makes it to court, the person you least expect takes on the case in an attempt to avenge the wrong that has been done. 
  Embark on the journey alongside the Lincoln family as they struggle to seek justice against the most influential people in America. 
  Will justice be served or not?

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  Fifty Shades of Autumn - 50 of...

  Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe...

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  Nature continues to give. Riots of colour, of harvest are summoned.  It seems almost at will. Her palette is richer. There is a depth to everything, made deeper still by the sun beginning to hang lower in the sky, it’s light denser, glowing at dawn and at twilight, enriching everything it falls upon. 
   
  Our classic poets take stock. They have seen her bounty – this act of giving – many times before.  Yet, yet still it’s majesty almost refuses the salute of words.  Undaunted their verse is given, connections and revelations fall upon the page. 
   
  In fifty poems we take you on their inspiring journey, reflecting on the miracle of Autumn. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of Autumn - An Introduction 
  02 - Ode to Autumn by John Keats 
  04 - Autumn by Thomas Hood 
  05 - Autumn by Kahlil Gibran 
  06 - September by George Arnold 
  07 - Autumn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  08 - Written in September 1804 by Christian Milne 
  09 - A Calendar of Sonnets - September by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  10 - Lines Written Beneath An Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow On The Hill Sept 2nd 1807 by George Gordon Byron 
  11 - September by Janet Hamilton 
  12 - September by Carlos Wilcox 
  13 - Autumn Song by Dante Gabriel Rosetti 
  14 - Lines Written On the 6th September by Thomas Gent 
  15 - Late September by Amy Lowell 
  16 - Autumn Dawn by Charles Sorley 
  17 - An Autumn Sunset by Edith Wharton 
  18 - An Autumn Rain Scene by Thomas Hardy 
  19 - Autumn in Sussex by Radclyffe Hall 
  20 - Autumn In Cornwall by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  21 - October 1915 by Dora Sigerson Shorter 
  22 - October by George Arnold 
  23 - Autumn by Anne Bradstreet 
  24 - October by John Payne 
  25 - October Musings 1866 by Janet Hamilton 
  26 - October by John Jay Chapman 
  27 - October by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  28 - In Autumn by Alice Meynell 
  29 - Through October Fields by James Edwin Campbell 
  30 - Autumn, 1914 by Mary Webb 
  31 - North Wind in October by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  32 - Give Me October's Meditative Haze by Alfred Austin 
  33 - An October Garden by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  34 - October on the Sheep Range by Arthur Chapman 
  35 - The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  36 - November Song by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 
  37 - The Name of it is Autumn by Emily Dickinson 
  38 - November by John Clare 
  39 - Autumn Overlooked My Knitting by Emily Dickinson 
  40 - A November Note by Alfred Austin 
  41 - To a Robin in November by William Wilfred Campbell 
  42 - November Findings, November 1862 by Janet Hamilton 
  43 - In November by Archibald Lampman 
  44 - November by William Cullen Bryant 
  45 - In Autumn Moonlight by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  46 - November by John Keble 
  47 - November by John Payne 
  48 - Love in Autumn by Sara Teasdale 
  49 - In November by Phillip Henry Savage 
  50 - Autumn Within by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  51 - Autumn - A Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  A Pretty Sight

  David O’Meara

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  Like the rhapsodists, the storytellers of ancient Greece, A Pretty Sight shapes voices of the past and present into a stitched song lifted and sounded toward the next century. Haunted by ‘time's frame / that dark shape near the edge of the canvas,’ O’Meara's new book explores aspects of culture, art, war, rebellion and technology, offering defiance amid decay.
     
  ‘O’Meara is a poet of the personal. Of the person. In and amongst the social documentary and human observation at which he excels, here is a writer prepared to put feelings on the line and to argue his case with the reader. This is proud, felt, and affecting work — I can't think of many other poets so prepared to engage and so equipped to succeed.’ —Simon Armitage

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  The Tiger

  William Blake

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you twelve different recordings of The Tiger, by William Blake. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 3rd, 2006.

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  Hedda Gabler (NHB Modern Plays)

  Henrik Ibsen

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  Richard Eyre's high-profile adaptation of Ibsen's famous 'problem play' about a headstrong woman's determination to control those around her.
  Arriving home after an extended honeymoon, Hedda struggles with an existence that is, for her, devoid of excitement and enchantment. Filled with a passion for life that cannot be confined by her marriage or 'perfect home', Hedda strives to find a way to fulfil her desires by manipulating those around her.
  Richard Eyre's adaptation of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler was premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2005.
  'A triumph... Eyre's dialogue is forceful, clear, with just enough idiomatic dash' - Observer
  'Hedda is often regarded as the female Hamlet. But Eyre reminds us that it is a great polyphonic play as well as a commanding title-role' - Guardian
  'Hedda Gabler still has the power to shock' - Independent on Sunday
  'thrilling... re-administers, as if for the first time, the devastating shock and the sheer affront of Ibsen's drama' - Independent

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