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  This House - Poems

  Rehema Njambi

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  Rehema Njambi unpacks identity, faith, womanhood and – above all – agency, in poems partly inspired by conversations with the Black, mostly African, women around her.
  
  Imbued with quiet resistance to patriarchal societies, Njambi's debut collection is an ode to the women who have raised her, and their strength and their ability to hold, sustain, and be rooted in their faith. The poems resound with their idea of home, and belonging they wish to pass on to their daughters.
  GHOSTS IN THIS HOUSE
  There were footsteps in the dark all night,
  
  almost every night, and we were scared —
  
  but we didn't say a thing.
  She called us to prayer in the morning, every morning.
  
  With our small hands and smaller faith
  we asked the Lord for protection —
  
  but He didn't say a thing.

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  Contemporary Plays by Black...

  Natasha Gordo, Arinzé Kene,...

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  This anthology brings together six plays, all written or performed since 2017, by six brilliant Black British writers – Travis Alabanza, Firdos Ali, Natasha Gordon, debbie tucker green, Arinzé Kene and Chinonyerem Odimba.
  The plays demonstrate a rich range of settings, forms, styles, locations, scales, contents and concerns – and explore themes including politics and protest, grief and colonisation, relationships and gender.
  They have been seen on stages including the National Theatre, the Royal Court, the Bush and Bristol Old Vic, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in the West End, and on tour of the UK.
  Selected and introduced by leading theatre director Natalie Ibu, Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers celebrates a multiplicity of stories authored by Black playwrights in the UK over the last decade.
  Included in this volume:
  Misty by Arinzé Kene (Bush Theatre, London, 2018) - 'A powerful meditation on how we tell stories and a raw, beautiful Odyssey through the heart of London' The Arts Desk
  Nine Night by Natasha Gordon (National Theatre, London, 2018) - 'An undeniably important piece that both celebrates and gives a voice to the Windrush generation and its descendants living in Britain today' Broadway World
  Princess & The Hustler by Chinonyerem Odimba (Eclipse Theatre, Bristol Old Vic & Hull Truck, 2019) - 'A crucial slice of black British history... a beautifully crafted play that kaleidoscopes multiple issues with warmth, integrity and humour' Observer
  Burgerz by Travis Alabanza (Hackney Showroom, 2018) - 'An angry and intelligent script, underscored with the real pain of exclusion, of being boxed in, of being trapped in a world where sexual and racial violence is prevalent and, too often, tolerated' Guardian
  40 Days by Firdos Ali (unperformed) - 'Explores the impact of state violence on Black and brown children, and the consequence of bringing that news into the home on young lives' Natalie Ibu, from her Introduction
  a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) by debbie tucker green (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2017) - 'Beautifully dark and recognisable... an insightful observation of how we dissect our relationships, how we talk about talking, and what 'silence' means between lovers' Independent

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  Shadow Train - Poems

  John Ashbery

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  A captivating experiment in traditional poetic form, from one of the most untraditional American poets ever to set pen to paperAt first glance, John Ashbery’s Shadow Train seems to embrace the constraints of traditional poetic form—but closer reading reveals that this work is Ashbery at his revolutionary best. In fifty poems, each consisting solely of four connected quatrains, Ashbery apparently plays by the rules while simultaneously violating every single one. Over and over again, the familiar, almost sonnet-like sixteen-line form creates an outline of a poem within which, one would expect, poetry is meant to arrive—as a station waits for a train. And yet, as with many of the world’s greatest poems, the act of creating poetry also relies on the reading and the reader—in other words, as this collection’s signature poem “Paradoxes and Oxymorons” puts it, “the poem is / you.” In Shadow Train, Ashbery demonstrates how language influences our experience of reality, creating it and sustaining it while also remaining mysterious and ineffable: constantly arriving, but impossible to catch.

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  The Poetry of April

  Wilfred Owen, Robert Louis...

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  APRIL - the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar heralds Spring in earnest and of course April Showers and perhaps other unsettled weather.  For out poets including Owen, Stevenson, Van Dyke, Hardy and Shelley the month provides a rich source for them to muse upon.  Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; April - An Introduction; An April Fool By Alfred Austin; Child's Talk In April By Christina Georgina Rossetti; An April Day By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Love Like An April Day Beguiles By James Bland Burgess; The Famous Speech Maker Of England Or Baron Lovel's Charge At The Assizes At Exon April 5th 1710 By Jonathan Swift; An April Love By Alfred Austin; April By Sara Teasdale; My April Lady By Henry Van Dyke; April 1844 By Henry Alford; Elegy In April and September By Wilfred Owen; Home Thoughts From Abroad By Robert Browning; Rome - Building A New Street in The Ancient Quarter, April 1887 By Thomas Hardy; Over The Lands In April By Robert Louis Stevenson; Stanzas April 1814 By Shelley; On A Nightingale In April By William Sharpe; Here By The Brimming April Streams By Phillip Savage; The Idlers Calendar - April - Trout Fishing By William Scawen Blunt; April By John Bannister Tabb; Sonnet To April By Henry Kirk White; A Petition To April, Written During Sickness By Susanna Blamire; It Was An April Morning Fresh And Clear By William Wordsworth; The Soul Of April By Bliss William Carman; April Evening, France, April 1916 By John William Streets; Under The April Moon By Bliss William Carman; April By Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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  Lines Written From Home

  Anne Brontë

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Lines Written From Home by Anne Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 3rd, 2010.

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  The Way We Roll

  Scot Gardner

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  Will went to private school, and Julian went to juvie. Will is running from a family secret, and Julian is running from the goat next door. The boys meet pushing trolleys, and they find a common enemy in the Westie hoons who terrorize the car-park. After a few close calls, Will has to nut up and confront his past. But on the way, he learns a few things about what it means to be a friend– and what it means to be family.  
  The Way We Roll is a rattling urban bromance made of plastic and stainless steel. Brace yourself.
  An Author's Republic audio production.

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