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  This Is the Emergency Present

  Vincent Pagé

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  Poems about modern romance by a modern romantic
  Moving through a human landscape that exists both in the past and present, the speaker/speakers in This is the Emergency Present attempt to unearth an understanding about love, romanticism, and connection. Using chemistry and physics, the early works of Pablo Neruda, and the abstract broken language around him, Vincent Pagé attempts to define something tangible about presence and absence. By asking "at what point in a transition/ does one thing become the other thing?" he challenges us to consider what it means to be here, and at what point are we finally there?

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  Broom Broom

  Brecken Hancock

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  Nothing slips by Brecken Hancock’s deft ear as she seductively plumbs the depths of the evolution of bathing, doppelgängers, the Kraken and the minutiae of family with all its tragic misgivings. The poems in Broom Broom pervert the rational, safe parts of the world to extoll and absorb the sweep of human history.

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  Poetry Hour The - Volume 18

  Edmund Spenser, Dante Gabriel...

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  Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words.  The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one.  But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition.  Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. 
   
  Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children’s textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today.  
   
  Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We’ve put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations.   
   
  In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of Edmund Spenser and Dante Gabriel Rossetti as well as themes on The Female Poet, The Wind & Rain, Evenings and more. 
   
  All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can’t.  Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes.  Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores.  
   
  This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that.   
   
  Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey. 
   
   
  The Poetry Hour – Volume 18 
  Edmund Spenser – An Introduction 
  Sonnet – One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand by Edmund Spenser 
  Shepherd’s Calendar. IV – April by Edmund Spenser 
  The Poetry of Evenings 
  The Evening Darkens Over by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  Sweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George Eliot 
  A Twilight in Middle March by Francis Ledwidge 
  A Summer Evening Courtyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershireby by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  The Red Sunsets by Mathilde Blind 
  Madonna of the Evening Flowers by Amy Lowell 
  Sunset by HP Lovecraft 
  How the Old Mountains Drip with Sunset by Emily Dickinson 
  The Female Poet. An Introduction – Volume 5 
  Winter, My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti  
  Sonnet LXXI by Charlotte Smith  
  Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale  
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Katharine Tynan  
  On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley  
  A World Worth Living In by Ella Wheeler Wilcox  
  Sonnet XIV by Mary Wroth  
  Dante Gabriel Rossetti - An Introduction 
  On Refusal of Aid Between Nations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  Sacrament Hymn by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  The Kiss by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  Troy Town by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  Willow Wood - Sonnet II by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  Willow Wood – Sonnet IV by Dante Gabriel Rossetti  
  The Poetry of Wind and Rain - An Introduction 
  Sudden Shower by John Clare  
  There Came A Wind Like a Bugle by Emily Dickinson 
  The Rainy Day by Rabindranath Tagore 
  The Storm by George Herbert 
  Rainy Night by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  Victorian Poetry – An Introduction 
  The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  A Match by Algernon Swinburne  
  Maternity by Alice Meynell  
  Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti  
  The Toys by Coventry Patmore 
  The Message of the March Wind by William Morris  
  Vita Lampada by Henry Newbolt

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  Four in Hand

  Alicia Mountain

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  Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found text pulled from financial newsletter emails. Language and white space equally captivate with their sparsity and abundance as Mountain pursues the implications of national political identity with intersectional awareness. These poems interrogate our collective complicity in late-stage capitalism, drone warfare, the election of Donald Trump, environmental degradation, mental health crises, and the dawn of Covid-19 through the lens of gay poetic lineage, regionalism, and familial kinships structures. With one enthralling image after the other, Four in Hand builds a world that carves out necessary space for lesbian gaze, speakership, and personhood. From the back corner of a vast, sprawling, yet gorgeous landscape of thought, Mountain's poems beckon us inside.

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  Kindertransport

  Diane Samuels

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  As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many Jews tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families in the United Kingdom, while their parents stayed behind. This passage to freedom became known as Kindertransport, and is the title of Diane Samuels’ play about families, secrets, and survival.Includes a conversation with Kindertransport survivor Hilda Fogelson.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Jane Kaczmarek as HelgaHugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/ Misc.Shannon Lee Clair as EvaAngela Paton as LilMolly Quinn as FaithSusan Sullivan as EvelynDirected by Jeanie Hackett. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.

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  Valued Friends (NHB Modern Plays)

  Stephen Jeffreys

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  Valued Friends is a comedy of manners about the property market which won both the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards when it was first performed at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 1989.
  Four people live together in a large old house in London. They include Sherry, a wacky girl trying to make it as a comedienne; Paul, a pop music journalist; Paul's girlfriend Marion; and Howard, who is writing a left wing analysis of the corruption of capitalism under the Thatcher government. They all are perfectly content living where they are; until, that is, a developer offers them a huge sum of money to vacate. Soon, their talk about music and idealism gives way to heated discussions about real estate, capital appreciation and negotiating tactics. They decide that they can force the developer to raise his offer by renovating the house; and three years of this leave them with a huge capital gain, and a deep spiritual loss.
  'I had the great pleasure of working with Stephen Jeffreys on his play, The Libertine. Would that all playwrights had his openness, his talent, his hard-headedness, his experience, his enthusiasm, his complexity, and perhaps best of all his talent and interest in eliciting the best in others' - John Malkovich
  'Stephen's plays always bear the kitemark of unique, handcrafted quality' - Ian Rickson

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