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  Multilingual Poetry Collection 008

  Various Various

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  In LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English. (Summary by David Barnes).

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  Your Therapist Says It’s Magical...

  Sadie McCarney

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  Sadie McCarney’s Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Thinking is a buoyant second collection that playfully navigates the turbulent waters of life with mental illness and neurodivergence. In much of the book, history and science are treated the way they are often viewed by a brain in mental turmoil: places and events get switched around, facts get rewritten, and the fantastical reigns supreme. Through poems ranging from didactic (the horrible “self-care” advice received by the poet when she was struggling most) to historical fiction (patients in an asylum in 1800s England), to the quirky and unexpectedly fantastical (a rainbow carpool unicorn, a young child’s timeline reversing each morning, and an everything bagel that includes competing theories of time), McCarney digs deep into the muck of her own lived experience. She resurfaces with, if not gold, at least an old time capsule and a few treasured hunks of bone. Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Thinking highlights the sometimes dubious (but always jubilant) inner workings of a mentally unwell brain at play — especially within the context of a larger society that frequently seeks to tamp down this weird and rare form of magic.

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  Travel in time - a life story in...

  Anisoara Laura Mustetiu

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  Written to make you smile, dream, cry, and shudder by the magic of love.  
  Travel in Time, A Life Story in Poems is for you, as a reader, an experience of a new world; a world where fantasy and reality have created distinct imageries and memorable moments. It is the story of a young girl and her profound and painful love, the story of her loneliness, of her travels across the world. The magic of her discoveries is captivating. It is the voice of justice and injustice that she will encounter in the beginning of her travels; it is the harshness of life where she will grow and mature. There are distinct and profound moments in the process of growing, such as the challenges of immigration, the consolation she will find in nature or by wandering with her mind across the universe. Until one day, when she will understand that life could be everything: an adventure, a dream, an illusion or endless love. Although her story is apart, the search for an unreachable love is popular and resonates with the destiny of many women around the world.  
  There is also the spirit of various cultures that flickers through the verses. The vivid imageries of Transylvania, the almost audible song of a lonely shepherd or the howling wolves in the moonlight may shutter and delight the reader’s spirit. Or, there might be the imageries from native Australia that may stir and reinvigorate your emotions. The combination of diverse cultures, of real events wrapped into a poetical form, may contribute, among other aspects, to the distinct spirit of the story.  
  Feasibly, during the journey you might also giggle or shudder by seeing the ghost of your own love story.

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  Songs of Snow and Silence

  Jen Emery

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  Imagine, first, a forest full of snow… 
    
  This is the story of a unique generation of violins. It begins in the silence of snow-filled forests and brings us to the chatter and traffic of a twenty-first century city.   
  It is the story of their maker, Antonio Stradivari, the sparkling young prodigy who did his greatest work late in life, lifting music from the silence of all he had lost. It is also the story of all of us. Of the passions that flicker through our lives, and what might unfold if we chase them. It is the story of how our greatest loves will outlive us, if only we will let them go. 
  Intimate and eternal, Songs of Snow and Silence by Jen Emery captures the solitary song of a woodlark, the crackle of a campfire and the echoing laughter around it. This is a voice steeped in ancient wisdom, made fresh by a grit and bright wit. Loreto Ruiz’s exquisite paintings bring alive in colour and movement the music, time, and emotions that shape this work, offering a soaring beauty and empathy that transcends words. 
  Have you lived long enough yet to know what it is to wake, stiff and cold before dawn by a burned down fire?

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  Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám The...

  Omar Khayyám

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  The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is so-named from the Persian word rubáiyát - a Persian word denoting a specific type of two-line stanza. Omar's Rubaiyat is a beautiful anthology of Islamic wisdom literature: originally penned in medieval Persian during the late 11th century AD.  
  The best known English translations are those by Edward Fitzgerald: his fifth (and last) translation includes a mere 101 quatrains - a fraction of Omar's original work. Fitzgerald's selection loosely groups quatrains by theme; rendering quatrains into English as four-line, rhymed stanzas.  
  Omar's writings are pervaded by the consciousness of the transient quality of life. In his Rubáiyát, the author ponders the limits of human knowledge and morality: and confronts his readers point-blank with the difficult questions that challenge every generation:  
  - what is the ultimate benefit derived from human knowledge?  
  - given human mortality; is is best to guide our lives by the dictates of reason, or sensuality?  
  - what happens to my soul when I die?  
  - why did God - the Creator - give me existence?  
   
  (Introduction by Godsend)

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  Stacy (NHB Modern Plays)

  Jack Thorne

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  Rob finds life confusing in a world of unwritten rules. If there's no one around to tell him right from wrong, except for a copy of FHM and a call-centre supervisor, he just has to guess. But he's never been very lucky, and sometimes he gets his guesses very wrong.
  This play was first staged at the Arcola Theatre, in 2007.
  'a pin-sharp, brilliant piece of work' - Time Out, Critics' Choice
  'a challenging, disturbing and distinctive new voice' - The Times
  'This one man show will blow your socks off... one of the most entertaining nights I've had at the theatre' - London Lite

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