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  Why I Write Poetry - Essays on...

  Ian Humphreys

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  What motivates poets in the 21st century? How do they find their voice? What themes and subject matters inspire them? How do they cope with set-backs and deal with success? What keeps them writing? Why I Write Poetry, edited by Ian Humphreys, combines lively and thought-provoking essays, along with individual writing prompts to help you create your own new poetry.
  In this book, twenty-five contemporary poets reflect with insight, wit and wisdom on the writing life. Each offers their distinctive take on what inspires and spurs them on to write poetry. The essays shine a light on everything from performance, dialect, the body and paying attention, to bearing witness, finding your wings and joining the journey of poetry, and encompass the practical, personal, and political. Within these pages, you'll discover how a poet's background and values can fundamentally shape and inform their work. New voices sit alongside poets with many collections under their belts and you'll find encouragement, creative provocations, advice and, above all, reasons to write. Read on, learn and enjoy.
  With essays by: Romalyn Ante, Khairani Barokka, Hafsah Aneela Bashir, Leo Boix, Vahni Capildeo, Mary Jean Chan, Jo Clement, Sarah Corbett, Jane Commane, Rishi Dastidar, Jonathan Edwards, Rosie Garland, W. N. Herbert, Ian Humphreys, Keith Jarrett, Zaffar Kunial, Rachel Mann, Andrew McMillan, Kim Moore, Pascale Petit, Jacqueline Saphra, Clare Shaw, Daniel Sluman, Jean Sprackland, and Jennifer Wong.

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  Philo Vance Detective Collection...

  Black Eye Entertainment

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  Created by S.S. Van Dine, Philo Vance was quite popular in books, movies and on radio. He was portrayed as a stylish, very intelligent and cultured private detective—an Americanized Sherlock Holmes—working out of New York. In the movies, William Powell, Warren William, Paul Lukas and Basil Rathbone starred as Vance. On radio, he was voiced by Jose' Ferrer, John Emery and Jackson Beck. Not that Vance needed any help solving a crime, he did work closely with his secretary and right hand woman, Ellen Deering and his pal John Markham, New York County District Attorney. First heard for a brief time on NBC radio in 1945-46 it enjoyed success in syndication beginning in 1948 starring Jackson Beck. 
   
  12/27/49 The Identical Murder Case1/3/50 The Tip Top Murder Case1/10/50 The Left-Handed Murder Case1/17/50 The Talking Corpse Murder Case1/24/50 The Music Box Murder Case1/31/50 The Sterling Murder Case2/7/50 The Chicken Murder Case2/14/50 The Scarface Murder Case3/7/50 The Church Murder Case3/14/50 The Mathematical Murder Case4/18/50 The Golden Key Murder Case4/25/50 The Shower Bath Murder Case

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  Immaculate (NHB Modern Plays)

  Oliver Lansley

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  A laugh-out-loud comedy first seen at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival, published alongside an extensive UK tour by Les Enfants Terribles in 2006.
  You're young, free and single and haven't had sex for the last eleven and a half months, then one morning you wake up pregnant and to make matters worse the Angel Gabriel is on your doorstep claiming parentage...
  'Genuinely a laugh a minute, with some real strokes of comic genius' Metro
  'In a Fringe which is filled with comedies, this has to be one of the funniest' British Theatre Guide

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  Summerfolk - Full Text and...

  Maxim Gorky

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  Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price
  Maxim Gorky's magnificent response to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, written in 1904, the year Chekhov died.
  Summerfolk is a play about the Russian bourgeois social class and the changes occurring around them in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century. It is set in a world of 'false hopes and unfulfilled promises', where dachas have been subdivided into summer colonies and the newly rich idle away their time in unhappy romantic alliances. Gorky's characters are still dreaming of a better life, but they are increasingly aware of impending revolution.
  Gorky's play premiered in November 1904 at the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre in Saint Petersburg.
  This English version, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

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  THREE (Multiplay Drama)

  Sophie Ellerby

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  A funny, dark and thrilling play about family connections and the fallout from violence.
  Three sisters fight to keep track of reality as their whole world is shot to pieces.
  Dad's getting released from prison tomorrow and the air smells like a proper British summer. Tia's turned sixteen, smashing her GCSEs and gearing up for prom. Rochelle treats her little sister to a new dress from Westfield that even Jaz says she looks beautiful in – and Jaz wouldn't lie.
  Music blares in the backyard and the sisters smile together for the first time in a while. This could be the best summer they've ever had…
  THREE was first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in a production by National Youth Theatre's Playing Up Company.
  Multiplay Drama is an exciting new series of large-cast plays, specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults.

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  American Buffalo

  David Mamet

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  David Mamet’s gift for storytelling and forging poetry from both the plain-spoken and profane turns an ill-conceived scheme to steal a rare coin into a triumph of dramatic art. In a junk shop, three men of di•fferent generations plan their heist. But their fates, like the nickel’s worn image of the beleaguered buffalo, may have been sealed long ago. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring Rich Hutchman as Donny DuBrow, Josh Stamberg as Walter Cole (Teacher), and Maurice Williams as Bobby. Directed by Brian Kite and recorded before an audience by L.A. Theatre Works.

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