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  What Kind of Woman - Poems

  Kate Baer

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  An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller 
  A Goop Book Club Pick 
  ""If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer.""--Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo 
   
  A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend. 
  “When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands/Little by little, mountains are climbed.” So ends Kate Baer’s remarkable poem “Things My Girlfriends Teach Me.” In “Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels” she challenges her reader to consider their grandmother’s cake, the taste of the sea, the cool swill of freedom. In her poem “Deliverance” about her son’s birth she writes “What is the word for when the light leaves the body?/What is the word for when it/at last, returns?”  
  Through poems that are as unforgettably beautiful as they are accessible, Kate Bear proves herself to truly be an exemplary voice in modern poetry. Her words make women feel seen in their own bodies, in their own marriages, and in their own lives. Her poems are those you share with your mother, your daughter, your sister, and your friends.

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  And Then Come The Nightjars (NHB...

  Bea Roberts

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  A tender, frank and funny play about a West Country farm struggling to survive the Foot and Mouth pandemic.
  South Devon, 2001. Disease ravages the countryside, pyres are lit on the horizon, and dairy herdsman Michael is trapped as his farm becomes a battleground for his business, his heritage, and his friendship with local vet Jeff. Ten years on and the battle scars are as evident on their relationship as they are on the landscape.
  And Then Come the Nightjars charts the struggle of one farm amidst a crisis that saw the slaughter of four million animals and the postponement of a General Election.
  The play was joint winner of the inaugural Theatre503 Playwriting Award, and premiered at Theatre503, London, in September 2015, before transferring to Bristol Old Vic.

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  Shadowlands

  William Nicholson

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  William Nicholson’s Tony nominated stage adaptation of his award-winning BBC Teleplay relates the story of shy Oxford don and children’s author C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Gresham. Shadowlands shows how love, and the risk of loss, transformed this great man’s relationships, even with God. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Arthur Hanket, Harriet Harris, Nicholas Hormann, Martin Jarvis, Christopher Neame, Kenneth Schmidt and W. Morgan Sheppard.

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  15 Minutes Of Love Poems -...

  William Morris, Wilfred Owen,...

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  Love. What is love? 
   
  The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. 
   
  Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love’s beauty is perhaps in the fact that the question never can be adequately answered; its ephemeral, a chimera of the heart and only felt. 
   
  Our own experiences are unique and personal to ourselves and of little help defining it for another. 
   
  Love is perhaps best expressed through poetry. As Plato said 2500 years ago “At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet”. Writing a love poem for ones’ partner is seen as the most romantic of gestures. It opens our hearts to another's. Lovers love. 
   
  Here, in this volume history’s greatest poets convey thoughts, feelings and sentiments of love to you in quick (or bite-size) conversations of verse that can slip into your day and your partner's heart. 
   
  01 - Fifteen Minutes of Love - Volume 9 - The Good Morrow & Other Poems 
  02 - The Good Morrow by John Donne 
  03 - Morning Song of Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  04 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  05 - Greater Love by Wilfred Owen 
  06 - Love and Folly by Charlotte Smith 
  07 - Love is Enough by William Morris 
  08 - In Love by Rabia al Basri 
  09 - I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling 
  10 - To Anthea Who May Command Him Any Thing by Robert Herrick 
  11 - The Romance of the Knight by Thomas Chatterton

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  603 (NHB Modern Plays)

  Imad Farajin

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  Four Palestinian men share a cramped prison cell listening to the buses come and go outside. Will the next bus be the one to take them home?
  603, by Palestinian writer by Imad Farajin, is taken from Plays from the Arab World, a collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa, now available as individual ebooks.
  The full collection also includes:
  
  
  - Withdrawal by Mohammad Al Attar (Syria)
  - Damage by Kamal Khalladi (Morocco)
  - The House by Arzé Khodr (Lebanon)
  - Egyptian Products by Laila Soliman (Egypt)
  In 2007 the Royal Court Theatre's International Department and the British Council embarked on an ambitious project working with twenty-one writers from across the Near East and North Africa. Seven of the resultant plays received rehearsed readings at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2008. Plays from the Arab World, introduced by Laila Hourani of the British Council, collects five of these unique new voices, each posing different but equally urgent questions.

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  Vital Possessions

  Marc Nair

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  Vital Possessions by Marc Nair contemplates how city-dwellers negotiate their uneasy relationship with nature in a world where growth is both man-made and natural. The jungle is always one trim away from over-running us and we are often oblivious to it. The poems question what we hold as vital amid ceaseless consumption and our urban existence.

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