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  The Certainty Dream

  Kate Hall

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  Winner of the 2010 A. M. Klein Poetry Prize
   
  Shortlisted for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize
   
  Descartes asked, How can I know that I am not now dreaming? The Certainty Dream poses similar questions through poetry, but without the trappings of traditional philosophy. Kate Hall’s bracingly immediate, insistently idiosyncratic debut collection lays bare thetricks and tools of her trade: a mynah bird perches in poems but 'stands for nightingale'; the poet’s antelope turns transparent; she dresses up her orange trees with bark and leaves. As the dream world and the waking world blur, the body and the dimensions it inhabits become a series of overlapping circles, all acting as containers for both knowledge and uncertainty. At times disarmingly plainspoken, at others, singing with lyric possibility, these poems make huge associative leaps. Taken together, they present the argument that to truly 'know' something, one must first recognize its traces in something else.
   
  'Kate Hall unites philosophy and wisdom – without forgetting the chipotle-lime mustard.'
   
  – Montreal Review of Books
   
  'The Certainty Dream weaves its way through absurdist outbursts and giddy indulgences of graduate-level philosophy while remaining rooted in the immediacy and, yes,the certainty of everyday life … Hall’s poems unfold with wit, colourful layers and no overwhelming sense of ego or pomp.'
   
  – The Dominion
   
  'These are profoundly perfect poems.'
   
  – Eye Weekly
   
  'A whimsical and enlightening riff on the philosophic nature of knowing … Hall's imagination liberates language and subject at every blink.'
   
  – Winnipeg FreePress

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  Fifty Shades of February - 50 of...

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,...

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  The second month adds tiny dashes of colour.  Nature begins to gently rouse herself for the coming season.  Winter begins to withdraw its raw and elemental fingers in soft remembered surrender to the natural cycle that welcomes Spring.  
  Our classic poets, in 50 poems of inky verse, reveal all manner of events, sights and sounds. Among their ranks are Longfellow, Coleridge, Dickinson, Teasdale, Clare and a wealth of many others, who, with their thoughts and desires express the world in lines of revelation. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of February - An Introduction 
  2 - February by John Clare 
  3 - Lines on Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  4 - February by Dollie Radford 
  5 - On the Death of Ms Burnite Who Died February the 2nd 1878 by David John Scott 
  6 - The Snowdrop by Henry James Pye 
  7 - February 3rd, 1830 by Henry Alford 
  8 - February by Arthur Christopher Benson 
  9 - February by Edward Ward 
  10 - February by Louisa Sarah Bevington 
  11 - February 10th, 1840 by Henry Alford 
  12 - A Calendar of Sonnets by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  13 - Hymn Written Sunday February 11th, 1798 by Robert Anderson 
  14 - In February by Alice Meynell 
  15 - A Valentine's Song by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  16 - A Valentine by Matilda Betham Edwards 
  17 - February by Edwin Arnold 
  18 - Meeting in Winter by William Morris 
  19 - Valentine by Elinor Wylie 
  20 - Sonnet I - Go Valentine and Tell That Lovely Maid by Robert Southey 
  21 - A Valentine by Lewis Carroll 
  22 - St Valentine's Day by Edith Nesbit 
  23 - The February Hush by Thomas Wentworth Higginson 
  24 - Snow Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  25 - In February by John Addington Symonds 
  26 - London Snow by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  27 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  28 - Snow Beneath Whose Chilly Softness by Emily Dickinson 
  29 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens 
  30 - Woods in Winter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  31 - The Brook in February by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 
  32 - Before You Thought of Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  33 - Winter - My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  34 - Winter Calls by Daniel Sheehan 
  35 - February by George Walter Thornbury 
  36 - To Susanna, February 1824 by Eliza Acton 
  37 - To A Primrose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  38 - To Primroses Filled With Morning Dew by Robert Herrick 
  39 - February by Sara Teasdale 
  40 - February by James Berry Bensel 
  41 - February Morning by Laurence Binyon 
  42 - The Thrush in February by George Meredith 
  43 - February Twilight by Sara Teasdale 
  44 - Evening in February by Francis Ledwidge 
  45 - Rainy Midnight by Ivor Gurney 
  46 - The Rain and the Wind by William Ernest Henley 
  47 - February by Edith Nesbit 
  48 - To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman 
  49 - Ode to France, February 1848 by James Russell Lowell 
  50 - To H W L on His Birthday 27th February, 1867 by James Russell Lowell 
  51 - February. An Elegy by Thomas Chatterton

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  Brontes The: The Poems: Volume 1

  Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë,...

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  Perhaps England’s greatest literary family. To find one brilliant novelist in a family is extremely rare. But two? Three?
  
  The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily Jane and Anne, together with their brother Patrick, are famed throughout the world. And amongst their many talents was poetry. Of course, being Brontë’s, they were rather good at that too.
  
  These poems are read for you by the very fine Anna Bentinck, David Shaw-Parker, Eve Karpf and Jo Wyatt.

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  Babbitt

  Sinclair Lewis

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  With an all-star cast including Stacy Keach, Helen Hunt, Edward Asner, Ted Danson and Richard Dreyfuss, this epic of the booming 1920’s uniquely captures the relentless culture of American business. Babbitt is a true classic about conformity in small town America - celebrated for its comic tone, satire, and vivid dialogue. The play is based on Sinclair Lewis’ novel, first published in 1922.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Rene Auberjonois, Bonnie Bedelia, Ed Begley Jr., Georgia Brown, Roscoe Lee Browne, Jack Coleman, Bud Cort, Ted Danson, William Devane, Richard Dreyfuss, Hector Elizondo, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Foxworth, Harry Hamlin, Julie Harris, Helen Hunt, Amy Irving, Stacy Keach, John Lithgow, Nan Martin, Marsha Mason, Richard Masur, Marian Mercer, Joanna Miles, Holly Palance, Judge Reinhold, Franklyn Seales, David Selby, Ally Sheedy, Madolyn Smith, James Whitmore, JoBeth Williams and Michael York.

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  The Italian Tycoon's Bride

  Helen Brooks

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  He wants her—so he’ll wed her!Maisie Burns is a nice girl, with little experience of the world. But that doesn’t stop tycoon Blaine Morosini from wanting her! Maisie doesn’t see the effect she has on the enigmatic Italian—she thinks she’s far too plain for a man like him to notice her. But the longer they spend together, the more their mutual attraction grows.  Though Blaine once thought he didn’t do commitment, now he realizes that if he’s to have Maisie he’ll have to put his playboy past  behind him and make her his wife!

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  Limericks Odes & Poems

  Gillian Kay

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  A collection of poetry and musings by the writer Gillian Kay. Observations on life, political moments, and the desperate route through lockdown. With illustrations by Mary Patrick.

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