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  Grandma's Prayer

  Eugene Field

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Grandma's Prayer by Eugene Field . This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 4, 2011.Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. He first started publishing poetry in 1879, when his poem "Christmas Treasures" appeared in A Little Book of Western Verse. Over a dozen volumes of poetry followed and he became well known for his light-hearted poems for children, perhaps the most famous of which is "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod." (Summary from Wikipedia)*This poem taken from the Yale Book of American Verse. (1912). Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. (1838–1915)

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  Lakes Entrance Girl

  Elsie Johnstone

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  Too structured to fall into the category of grunge poetry; low on literary worth, but high on story telling. I call my poetry, ‘Gippsland Shabby Chic Verse’. It’s raw, uncomplicated, tells a story in simple language that is easy to read. And most of it rhymes! Hopefully, my poems will take my reader on an emotional journey to experience what makes beautiful Lakes Entrance and East Gippsland unique amongst places. This is a book of collected poems of time and place, compiled in the season of the coronavirus 2020, during lockdown. ‘You can take the girl out of Lakes Entrance, but you can’t take Lakes Entrance out of the girl.’

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  Pippa Passes

  Robert Browning

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  Pippa Passes was a dramatic piece, as much play as poetry, by Robert Browning published in 1841 as the first volume of his Bells and Pomegranates series.The author described the work as the first of a series of dramatic pieces. His original idea was of a young, innocent girl, moving unblemished through the crime-ridden neighbourhoods of Asolo. The work caused outrage when it was first published, due to the matter-of-fact portrayals of many of the area's more disreputable characters – notably the adulterous Ottima – and for its frankness on sexual matters. Perhaps the most famous passage is below:The year's at the spring,And day's at the morn;Morning's at seven;The hill-side's dew-pearled;The lark's on the wing;The snail's on the thorn;God's in his Heaven - All's right with the world!        (Summary by Wikipedia) 
  Characters: 
  Pippa — PhilippaNarrator/Stage Directions — David Lawrence1st 3rd & 5th Student — Lars Rolander3rd & 4th Girl — vanroseGottlieb, 1st and 3rd Police — DougJules, 2nd Police & Monsignor — heyfdLuigi — mbLuigi’s Mother — SilenceOttima, 2nd Girl — TriciaGPhene, 1st Girl — Neeru IyerSebald, Schramm, Bluphocks, Intendant, 2nd, 4th &  6th Student — Barry Eads 
  All tunes used are original and placed in the public domain by the readers.

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  The Imagists - A poetry...

  Amy Lowell, Hilda Doolittle,...

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  In the early 1900s a new movement in poetry began.  With the new century came new thinking, a reaction to both romanticism and the more formal, structured poetry of the Victorian era.  Here was poetry designed to be simple, clear and precise, rather than be adorned and encrusted with more from the lexicon than what was actually needed. 
   
  The original ideas sprang from T. E Hulme and from these Ezra Pound created the structure for its development.  Akin to the Ancient Greek lyricists and the Japanese Haiku poets who went from fixed meters to free verse. 
   
  I. Direct treatment of the “thing," whether subjective or objective.  II. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.  III. As regarding rhythm: to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome. 
   
  Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) William Carlos Williams, Richard Aldington and James Joyce added their talents to an anthology edited by Pound, swiftly followed by Amy Lowell assuming leadership and adding both monies and 3 further anthology volumes.   By the end of the Great War in 1918 the movement was being absorbed into the broader modernist movement.  Its time may have passed but its indelible mark was made.

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  Andromache - Greek & Roman Classics

  Euripides

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  Euripides' classic tragedy in a full cast audio production. After Troy fell to the Greeks, Andromache, the wife of the slain Trojan king Hector, was taken as prize and given to Achilles' son Neoptolemus as his concubine. He treated her kindly, and in the fullness of time she bore him a son. But Neoptolemus went on to take as his wife Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus, but she could bear him no children. Enraged with jealousy, Hermione plots the death of Andromache, and the play opens with Andromache taking sanctuary at the temple of Thetis, the goddess who is also Achilles' mother - Achilles, the man who killed her husband.

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  After the Formalities

  Anthony Anaxagorou

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  - Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize
  - A Poetry Society Recommendation
  - A Guardian Poetry Book of the Year
  - One of The Telegraph's Best Poetry Books of 2019A knife is pulled. An Uber driver is racially abused on the day of the Brexit referendum. A father bathes his son in ice water. A schoolboy drives a drawing pin into a map of the world. The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's breakthrough collection After the Formalities. Technically achieved, emotionally transformative and razor-sharp, these are poems that confront and contradict; poems in which the scholarly synthesises with the streetwise, and global histories are told through the lens of one family.
  Anaxagorou 'speaks against the darkness', tracking the male body under pressure from political and historical forces, and celebrates the precarious joy of parenthood. The title poem is a meditation on racism and race science that draws on the poet's Cypriot heritage and is as uncomfortable as it is virtuosic. Elsewhere, in a sequence of prose poems that shimmer with lyric grace, he writes, 'I'm your father & the only person keeping you alive.'

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