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  Fifty Shades of April - 50 of...

  John Clare, Hafiz, Henry...

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  The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar historically brings April showers, sunshine, touches of warmth and bursts of colour from tree and land. Buds, blossom, leaves, the great symphony of nature cascades across the landscape. Wildlife has new broods of life to nurture and provide for. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of April - An Introduction 
  02 - In April by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  03 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  04 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge 
  05 - April Rain by Mathilde Blind 
  06 - Here by the Brimming April Streams by Phillip Henry Savage 
  07 - An April Afternoon by Alexander Anderson 
  08 - April by Sara Teasdale 
  09 - On a Nightingale in April by William Sharpe 
  10 - The Idlers Calender - April - Trout Fishing by William Scawen Blunt 
  11 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare 
  12 - Loveliest Of Trees, The Cherry Now by A E Housman 
  13 - Sonnet To April by Henry Kirk White 
  14 - Sonnet VIII - To Spring by Charlotte Smith 
  15 - Under the April Moon by Bliss William Carman 
  16 - A Petition To April, Written During Sickness by Susanna Blamire 
  17 - The Soul of April by Bliss William Carman 
  18 - The Days of Spring by Hafiz 
  19 - A Pang Is More Conspicuous in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  20 - Easter by Edmund Spenser 
  21 - A Spring Carol by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  22 - Dublin, Easter 1916 by Alice Furlong 
  23 - April Evening, France, April 1916 by John William Streets 
  24 - In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Edward Thomas 
  25 - April, 1918 by Henry Christopher Bradby 
  26 - Elegy in April and September by Wilfred Owen 
  27 - The Easter Flower by Claude McKay 
  28 - April 1844 by Henry Alford 
  29 - Sheep and Lambs by Katharine Tynan 
  30 - Child's Talk in April by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  31 - An April Fool by Alfred Austin 
  32 - The Famous Speech Maker of England or Baron Lovel's Charge at the Assizes at Exon April 5th 1710 by Jonathan Swift 
  33 - Paul Revere's Ride (The Landlord's Tale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  34 - Rome - Building a New Street in The Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - Spring in New Hampshire by Claude McKay 
  36 - April by John Bannister Tabb 
  37 - Home Thoughts From Abroad by Robert Browning 
  38 - Stanzas April 1814 by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  39 - Over the Lands In April by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  40 - Spring Morning by A E Housman 
  41 - Cuckoo Song By Rudyard Kipling 
  42 - It Was an April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth 
  43 - April by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  44 - An April Love by Alfred Austin 
  45 - Another Song - an extract from Divine Songs and Meditacions by An Collins 
  46 - Sonnet 98 - From You Have I Been Absent in the Spring by William Shakespeare 
  47 - So Sweet Love Seemed That April Morn by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  48 - My April Lady by Henry Van Dyke 
  49 - Love Like an April Day Beguiles by James Bland Burgess 
  50 - With A Guitar, To Jane by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  51 - The Shepheardes Calendar IV - April by Edmund Spenser

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  Cling To Me Like Ivy (NHB Modern...

  Samantha Ellis

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  A sassy, offbeat comedy-drama about rebelling against your roots.
  Rivka wants the perfect Orthodox wedding. With two weeks to go, she has the man, the dress – and the wig. But when doubt is cast on her wig, everything starts to unravel. Rivka finds herself far from home, up a tree and in the midst of an anti-road protest, not knowing whether she'll be able to go back to where she came from… Or even if she wants to.
  Samantha Ellis' play was inspired by a chance remark by Victoria Beckham in 2004 which sparked a crisis within the Orthodox Jewish community about the wigs worn by married women.
  'that genuinely rare beast, a popular comedy with heart, brains and the stomach to make some difficult choices' - Guardian

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  Two Musicians

  Sarah Orne Jewett

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Two Musicians by Sarah Orne Jewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 16, 2011.She published her first important story in the Atlantic Monthly at age 19, and her reputation grew throughout the 1870s and 1880s. Her literary importance arises from her careful, if subdued, vignettes of country life that reflect a contemporary interest in local color rather than plot. Jewett possessed a keen descriptive gift that William Dean Howells called "an uncommon feeling for talk — I hear your people." (summary by Wikipedia)

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  The Bhakti Poet Saints

  Mirabai, Kabir, Guru Nanak

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  Whilst Europe endured the Dark Ages in the 6th & 7th Centuries devotees of Shiva and Vishnu in Southern India were creating the Bhakti Movement.  Some of these exponents, as in our volume, were bestowed with the title of saint but some had the additional title of sant, swami or goswami. 
   
  Broadly speaking, Bhakti poetry, as in Hinduism itself, is divided into ‘Nirguna’, the idea that the divine is formless as exampled by Kabir and ‘Saguna’ which interprets the divine as having physical form as captured by Mirabai.  
   
  The rapid spread, of the Bhakti movement, with its theme of love and devotion to God, proffered by these rebellious poet saints, did, over the following centuries, meld with much needed Hindu reforms and went to the heart of human existence.  These ‘God possessing’ rather than ‘God fearing’ poets rejected hierarchies and intermediaries in their spiritual devotion and were critical of rules, regulations and ritual observances administered by Brahmin priests in the sacred but elitist court and temple Sanskrit.   
   
  Their poems, in their local language, emphasised personal devotion as a route to salvation with kind deeds and a humble life rather than ritual mediation, stretched the fabric of society.  They were all from lower castes and many were women giving the movement an egalitarian spirit that helped reinforce the message that god’s love was all-encompassing for every person willing to surrender to the divine.   
   
  Furthermore, their verse was accessible, simple, innovative with new poetic forms and often expressed in songs with a fierce passion and ecstasy that demonstrated the movement’s focus on inner, mystical and authentic devotion and humility.  Impromptu performances with provocative outbursts of singing and dancing in unconventional settings or public gatherings evolved into poetic presentations and community recitals as the rapid popularity of the movement spread.  Although the language is every day and simple, many verses carry undercurrents of complex ideas, philosophical and psychological dilemmas, nuance and humour. 
  1 - The Bhakti Poet Saints - An Introduction 
  2 - His Ears Ringeth by Sambandar 
  3 - Thiruppavi (An Extract) by Andal 
  4 - Tiruvasiriyam by Nammalvar 
  5 - Navada Bhakti in An Untainted Heart by Gangasati 
  6 - Show Me Your Way Out by Akka Mahadevi 
  7 - Would A Circling Surface Vulture by Akka Mahadevi 
  8 - The True Name is Like Sandalwood by Namdev 
  9 - Amrutanubhav (An Extract) by Dnyaneshwar 
  10 - Vakh - If in the Flux of Time by Lal Ded 
  11 - Vakh - They Who Have Gained Experience by Lal Ded 
  12 - Acceptance by Janabai 
  13 - Where Shall I Go by Ramananda 
  14 - Vaishnav by Narsinh Mehta 
  15 - Pointless It Is To Lament by Narsinh Mehta 
  16 - Illusion and Reality by Kabir 
  17 - Song 6 - The Moon by Kabir 
  18 - I Laugh When I Hear That the Fish in the Water is Thirsty by Kabir 
  19 - It is the Mercy of My True Guru by Kabir 
  20 - Song 1 - Oh Servant Where Dost Thou Seek Me by Kabir 
  21 - Song 69 - If God Be Within the Mosque by Kabir 
  22 - The Light of the Sun by Kabir 
  23 - You Are Me and I Am You by Ravidas 
  24 - The Name Alone Is The Truth by Ravidas 
  25 - How to Escape by Ravidas 
  26 - Dhanasri Measure by Guru Nanak 
  27 - Gauri Dipaki Measure by Guru Nanak 
  28 - Shikshashtakam by Chaitanya 
  29 - Mine is Gopal by Mirabai 
  30 - Beloved Mohan by Mirabai 
  31 - Mira is Steadfast by Mirabai 
  32 - I Will Sing the Praises by Mirabai 
  33 - O Deluded Ones by Mirabai 
  34 - Enjoy the Company of True Saints by Mirabai 
  35 - Listen by Mirabai 
  36 - Sister Without the Lord I Cannot Carry On by Mirabai 
  37 - Hanuman Chalisa by Tulsidas 
  38 - To Arrange Words by Tu

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  She sweeps with many-colored Brooms

  Emily Dickinson

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of She sweeps with many-colored Brooms by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 24, 2013.Dickinson was a prolific private poet, but fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson’s poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.(Summary from Wikipedia)

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  The Poetry of William Butler Yeats

  William Yeats

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  William Butler Yeats's early poetry is suffused with the radiant lyricism of Irish folklore and myth; the yearning romance and distinctly Irish voice of these first works of the Nobel laureate have inspired scores of poets. This splendid selection offers a distinctive sampling of the Yeatsian voice. Among the many famed works included are "The Everlasting Voices," "Reconciliation," and "The Song of the Wandering Aengus." Each of these poems is filled with the sparkling magic and mysticism Yeats absorbed as a boy in Ireland. This sweetness is juxtaposed against an anguished realism grounded in the master poet's nationalist and political sympathies.

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