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  Fifty Shades of Slumber - 50 of...

  James Joyce, Sara Teasdale,...

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  Sleep. That most mysterious of times.  The unconscious hours. 
   
  Everyone needs it. Whether it’s the recommended eight hours, forty winks, cat naps, power naps or other shades of blissful slumber.  
   
  Sleep offers a respite from the rigors and challenges of the day. A chance for the brain to process what has happened and bring rest and recuperation before the cycle of daytime activity begins again. 
   
  Also, perchance to dream or, if we are unlucky, the visitation of nightmares. 
   
  But for some people sleep does not come easy.  These can be wakeful hours of frustration or tedium where closing the eyes does not bring the closing of the mind and the slumber so keenly wanted. 
   
  Part of the problem, in this increasingly frenetic 24/7 world is that we seem reluctant or unable to switch off enough to recuperate; we might miss something.  But slumbered hours bring gains in health that far outweigh transitory loss. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of Slumber - An Introduction 
  02 - Rest by Richard Le Gallienne 
  03 - To Sleep by John Keats 
  04 - Sleep by James Weldon Johnson 
  05 - Sleep on Thine Eyes by Hafiz 
  06 - Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton 
  07 - Sleep by Tagore 
  08 - Sleep Now, Oh Sleep Now by James Joyce 
  11 - Sonnet XI - To Sleep by Charlotte Smith 
  12 - Sleeping Together by Katherine Mansfield 
  13 - Care Charming Sleep by John Fletcher 
  14 - Sleep by Mirabai 
  15 - Song VIII - While Ye Deemed Him A Sleeping by William Morris 
  16 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  17 - Love and Sleep by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  18 - Nupital Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  19 - Celia, Sleeping or SInging by Thomas Stanley 
  20 - Idea's Mirror. Sonnet XXXVII. Dear Why Should You Command Me To My Rest 
  21 - The Indian Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  22 - From Dewy Dreams, My Soul Arise by James Joyce 
  23 - At That Hour When All Things Have Repose by James Joyce 
  24 - Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling 
  25 - Bed In Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  26 - Lullaby by Louisa May Alcott 
  27 - Dreams by Robert Tannahill 
  28 - The Dream by John Donne 
  29 - The Dream by Amy Levy 
  30 - A Ballad of Dreamland by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  31 - Dreamland by Edgar Allen Poe 
  32 - Angel Spirits of Sleep by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  33 - For the Bed at Kelmscott by William Morris 
  34 - A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe 
  35 - The Haunting Dream by Victor Plarr 
  36 - Dreamland by Christina Georgine Rossetti 
  37 - Hallucination by F S Flint 
  38 - The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe 
  39 - Good Night by Edward Thomas 
  40 - Good Night by Mary Gilmore 
  41 - My Sister's Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  42 - The Promise of Sleep by Amy Levy 
  43 - When Day Is Done by Tagore 
  44 - A Sleepless Night by Alfred Austin 
  45 - The Day is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  46 - Sonnet XXVII - Weary with Toil by William Shakespeare 
  47 - The End of the Day by Katharine Tynan 
  48 - Sleepless by Sara Teasdale 
  49 - What of the Darkness by Richard Le Gallienne 
  50 - The Owl Disturbs the Bard's Sleep by Dafydd ap Gwilym 
  51 - Insomnia by James Thomson

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  As We Face the Sun (NHB Modern...

  Kit Withington

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  A stark and tender story about growing up, the pleasures of friendship, why we hold onto things and how we might start to let go.
  A group of classmates, determined to remember their lost friend, commit to throwing an annual party in her honour. It's what she would have wanted. And year after year, they stick to the tradition.
  Now they're in their twenties, and another party is about to start. The cake has arrived safely, the buffet is all set, and the aux cable is finally working – but something just doesn't feel right…
  Kit Withington's play As We Face the Sun was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in a production by the Bush Young Company.
  The Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series features large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults.

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  Billy in Bunbury

  Royal Baking Powder Company

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  This 1924 poem/recipe book, designed as promotional material for the Royal Baking Powder Company, is set in the Oz community of Bunbury. Little Billy, who won't eat, is taken to the delicious kingdom Bunbury by King Hun Bun to help whet his appetite. Meanwhile, the King leaves the boy's mother with a recipe book for treats, made easy by the use of Price's Baking Powder.Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson, though neither her name, nor the illustrator’s (Gertrude Kay) appears on the book. (Summary by P. Cunningham)

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  Cutting Room

  Sarah Pinder

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  Cutting Room both describes and pushes against the anxious hum of the technologically saturated present. Sarah Pinder's poems navigate domestic and 'natural' spaces as landscapes charged with possible violence and desire. Using hyper-focus and the long gaze, they draw the eye to the corners and seams of these spaces, slowing us down, shifting our focus to worn detail, asking us to seek pattern and possibility in a hyper-paced present tense. Theseare little ominous films, documenting the minutiae around us that can be our undoing.

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  The Poetry of Thomas Hardy

  Thomas Hardy

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  A collection of Thomas Hardy's finest poetry read by Carleton Hobbs, John Glen, Richard Burton and Edith Evans

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  The Voice Celestial - An Epic...

  Ernest Holmes, Fenwicke Holmes

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  An Epic Poem in the tradition of The Iliad of Homer and John Milton’s Paradise Lost, The Voice Celestial bridges the centuries that have passed since Jesus Christ gave his message to mankind and links that message to our present age. The Wayfarer makes his journey through the world’s great religions to the mysteries of Egypt, and finally to Jesus Christ, being changed in the process, and discovering along the way that we live in a loving universe, where all men and women are masters of their own destinies.

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