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  The Victorian Laureates - An...

  William Wordsworth

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  The office of Poet Laureate goes back many centuries – informally to the time of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1389 and followed thereafter by a number of ‘volunteer laureates’. It was formally assigned to Ben Jonson in 1617 and, as a Royal office by letters patent in 1670, to John Dryden. It is a rich, rewarding history that bursts with the words, themes and visions of many great poets that has bound poetry and poets to a Nations soul. 
   
  Victoria’s reign is mainly remembered as that which harnessed and amplified The Industrial Revolution with its myriad of inventions and the reinvention of society from agricultural to manufacturing. From there its thirst for markets and raw materials created a massive ‘Age of Empire’ that bestrode the globe yet, in its wake, left many in its homeland, destitute, impoverished and bereft of the advantages it trumpeted on a world stage.   
   
  In the Arts its artists flourished, exhibiting and publishing abroad working in new techniques and new media. In literature such noted talents as Dickens, Trollope, Thackeray, the Bronte sisters and many, many others were ambitious and acclaimed.  In Poetry we were spoilt for choice; the Brownings, Matthew Arnold, Coventry Patmore, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, an endless succession of wordsmiths.   
   
  Those Laureates appointed in Queen Victoria’s reign to represent the Nation are three in number and quite simply are staggering in both verse and talent: William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Alfred Austin. 
   
  01 - The Victorian Laureates - An Introduction 
  02 - William Wordsworth - An Introduction 
  03 - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth 
  04 - It Was An April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth 
  05 - Ode Composed on a May Morning by William Wordsworth 
  06 - Surprised By Joy Impatient As the Wind by William Wordsworth 
  07 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 
  08 - My Hearts Leaps Up by William Wordsworth 
  09 - Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known by William Wordsworth 
  10 - Written in London September1802 by William Wordsworth 
  11 - November1806 by William Wordsworth 
  12 - The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth 
  13 - The Foresaken by William Wordsworth 
  14 - The Longest Day by William Wordsworth 
  15 - Tinturn Abbey (Extracts) By William Wordsworth 
  16 - Alfred Lord Tennyson - An Introduction 
  17 - Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  18 - The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  19 - Maud by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  20 - The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  21 - The Oak by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  22 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  23 - Break Break Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  24 - Ring Out Wild Bells by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  25 - The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  26 - Sweet and Low by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  27 - Song - A Spirit Haunts the Year's Last Hours by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  28 - The Death of the Old Year by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  29 - Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  30 - In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  31 - Alfred Austin - An Introduction 
  32 - Agetha by Alfred Austin 
  33 - A Captive Throstle by Alfred Austin 
  34 - Though All the World by Alfred Austin 
  35 - A Night in June by Alfred Austin 
  36 - Spiritual Love by Alfred Austin 
  37 - In Praise of England by Alfred Austin 
  38 - Forgiveness by Alfred Austin 
  39 - A Farewell To Youth by Alfred Austin

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  Then the War - And Selected...

  Caryl Phillips

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  "In much of the best contemporary poetry, beauty of thought is at least as important as beauty of language. Carl Phillips, here reading his own Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, has an ample supply of both, but it is the thinking behind each poem that makes it possible for the language to have power." - AudioFileWINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYA new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips's Then the WarI’m a song, changing. I’m a light rain falling through a vast darkness toward a different darkness.Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an “ongoing quest”; Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the farther we go, the more difficult it is to remember why or where we started. Then the War includes a generous selection of Phillips’s work from the previous thirteen years, as well as his recent lyric prose memoir, “Among the Trees,” and his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures.Ultimately, Phillips refuses pessimism, arguing for tenderness and human connection as profound forces for revolution and conjuring a spell against indifference and the easy escapes of nostalgia. Then the War is luminous testimony to the power of self-reckoning and to Carl Phillips as an ever-changing, necessary voice in contemporary poetry.

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  Major Barbara

  George Bernard Shaw

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  Barbara is a major in the Salvation Army - but she’s also the daughter of Andrew Undershaft, a man who’s made millions from the sale of weapons of war. The real battle, however, rages between between the devilish  father and his idealistic daughter as they answer the question: does salvation come through faith or finance? This sparkling comedy traverses family relations, religion, ethics and politics - as only Shaw, the master dramatist, can!An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring J.B. Blanc, Kate Burton, Matthew Gaydos, Brian George, Hamish Linklater, Henri Lubatti, Kirsten Potter, Roger Rees, Russell Soder, Amelia White, Missy Yager and Sarah Zimmerman.

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  Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin (NHB...

  Enda Walsh

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  Disco Pigs is the award-winning play about two warped teenagers that confirmed Enda Walsh's place in the forefront of young Irish dramatists and was filmed in 2001 with Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy.
  Stewart Parker Award
  George Devine Award
  Pig and Runt are two 17-year-olds who share everything: birthday, language, worldview - and that moment when pop songs and life-changing orgasms flash by and last forever.
  'offers timely insights into teenage alienation... impressive' - The Stage
  'Poignantly funny, full of sound and movement, this electric two-hander is phenomenal' - Irish Sunday Times
  'Does for Cork kids what Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting did for young Scots' - Daily Telegraph
  'a small-scale modern classic' - Time Out
  Also published in this volume is Sucking Dublin, a fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.
  'a unique talent, and it's a struggle not to use the G-word to describe the writing' - Examiner

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  Westminster Memorials Volume 2

  John Clare, Samuel Taylor...

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  Westminster Memorials – Volume 2 – An introduction.  Westminster Abbey has seen much during its long, rich history; the coronations of Kings and Queens, the burials of Prime ministers. However it is also a church that remembers the men and women of the arts.  Dedicated writers and poets who spoke so eloquently that the Nation wished to remember them with plaques upon its walls so that all who travelled here could remember too.  Their works are worth remembering and here, in these volumes, their wise words speak too and for us all.  In Volume 2 we collect together John Clare to DH Lawrence.

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  Incontrovertible Facts

  Anonymous Anonymous

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 different recordings of Incontrovertible Facts by Anonymous. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 23rd, 2008.This poem is a lipogram - so constructed as to exclude all vowels except 'o'.

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