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  The Queen of Sorrow

  Rachel Lawson

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  Sorrow 
  Astra Queen of Vampires was born of the union of two monsters a mad killer for a mother and a evil sorcerer for a father he mother was under a spell until she was born so sad was her mother by her marriage to the hated enemy of her people and bearing his child she named her child Sorrow. 
  The pair were murdered by a lunatic themselves when Sorrow was a baby. 
  Her uncle raise her with his own children who didn't have powers like their mother a fate from a parallel world and their father a necromancer and enchanter Sorrow's uncle. She later became not just a vampire but their queen. It was Sorrow's uncle who named her Astra as it was a better name for a child to forget her sad start in life with a new name her old name it was like a man being called Sue nothing a man could life down. 
  She later married a friend Max Starfire the Sun's King and had a child called- Astra known as Astry. She would never give her child a bad name like herself. Astry was a vampire/ werewolf like her mother and father. 
  Not alive or dead something in between. 
  They were day walkers Max, Astra and their daughter. 
  Strange creatures neither vampire nor werewolf they were 
  Includes stories with Sorrow or Astra Queen of Vampires from my the Magicians series 
  Narrated by the author and guest narrating Addison Fell as Alexa in Bad Omens

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  Feeling Afraid As If Something...

  Marcelo Dos Santos

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  'I'm thirty-six, I'm a comedian, and I'm about to kill my boyfriend.'
  A permanently single, professionally neurotic stand-up comedian finally meets his Mr Right – and then does everything wrong.
  Is Mr Right quite what he seems? And just how far will the comedian go to get a laugh?
  Marcelo Dos Santos's play Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen is a dark and bitingly funny one-man show about vulnerability, intimacy, ego and truth. It premiered in the Roundabout at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, produced by Francesca Moody Productions, directed by Matthew Xia, and starring Samuel Barnett.
  The critically acclaimed, Fringe First-winning production transferred to the Bush Theatre, London, in November 2023.

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  Lemon Hound

  Sina Queyras

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  2007 Winner of the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary Award
     
  If you open your mouth, ache. If you don’t open your mouth, swelter. If you open your mouth but hold your breath, ether. If you look for colour, coral and tea leaves. If you follow the moon, wet and concrete. If you cling to the earth, pistol and candy apple. If you give up your garden, maze and globe, hydrangeas and moon vines. If you lose your shoes, pumice and strain. If you have no money, tin and clang.
     
  As meditative practices focus on the axis of breath, these poems focus on the moment of action, of thought, on the flux of speech.
     
  This is a poetry not of snapshots or collages but of long-exposed captures of the not-so-still lives of women. One sequence imagines Virginia Woolf’s childhood; another unmakes her novel The Waves by attempting to untangle its six overlapping narratives. Yet another, ‘On the Scent,’ makes us flâneurs through the lives of a series of contemporary women, while ‘The River Is All Thumbs’ uses a palette of vibrant repetition to ‘paint’ a landscape.
     
  Queyras’s language – astute, insistent, languorous – repeats and echoes until it becomes hypnotic, chimerical, almost halluncinatory in its reflexivity. How lyrical can prose poetry be? How closely can it mimic painting? Sculpture? Film? How do wemake a moment firm? These ‘postmodern,’ ‘postfeminist’ poems pulse between prose and poetry: the line, the line, they seem to ask, must it ever end?
     
  ‘Laced with Virginia Woolf-inspired content, Queyras cultivates a rhythm that rocks the reader through a frontier map of the twenty-first century woman ... Lemon Hound's unique rhythms provide immediate gratification while its layered substance affords greater fulfillment with each reading.’ – Verse

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  Social Acupuncture

  Darren O'Donnell

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  Theatre doesn’t have much relevance anymore. Or so acclaimed playwright Darren O’Donnell tells us. The dynamics of unplanned social interaction, he says, are far more compelling than any play he could produce. So his latest show, A Suicide-Site Guide to the City, isn’t really a show; it’s an interactive chitchat about memory, depression, and 9/11, a dazzling whirl of talking streetcars, pizza and schizophrenia. And it’s hilarious.
     
  O’Donnell’s artistic practice has evolved into ‘something as close to hanging out as you can come and still charge admission.’ With his theatre company, Mammalian Diving Reflex, O’Donnell has generated a series of ongoing events that induce interactions between strangers in public; the Talking Creature, Q&A, Home Tours, the Toronto Strategy Meetings and Diplomatic Immunities bring people together in odd configurations, ask revealing questions and prove the generosity,abundance and power of the social sphere.
     
  Social Acupuncture includes the full text of A Suicide-Site Guide to the City and an extensive essay on the waning significance of theatre and the notion of civic engagement and social interaction as an aesthetic.
     
  ‘No other playwright working in Toronto right now has O’Donnell’s talent for synthesizing psychosocial, artistic and political random thoughts and reflections into compelling analyses … The world (not to mention the theatre world) could use more of this, if only to get us talking and debating.’
     
  – The Globe and Mail

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  How to Lay an Egg with a Horse...

  Brian Bilston

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  Read by the author and poet, Brian Bilston.Why do we write poetry? Who should write it? And where do you even start?Well, Brian Bilston, one of the UK’s most hilarious and best-loved poets, is here to take us through the hows, whys and whats of reading, writing and enjoying poetry every day.With his characteristic wit and charm, Bilston accompanies us through the jungle of imagination to the source of inspiration, takes us under the bonnet of a sonnet and over the fear of literary devices. He gives us a whirlwind tour through the history of verse, and shows us why human poetry will always triumph over any attempts by AI.Showcasing over a hundred brand new poems, and including practical critiques of some of his greatest hits, every page is an immensely pleasurable deep-dive into the life-affirming craft of poetry and a passionate argument for why we should all pick up a pen.How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside is for anyone who loves words and all the things they can do.

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  Bad Hobby - Poems

  Kathy Fagan

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  From Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Kathy Fagan comes Bad Hobby, a perceptive collection focused on memory, class, and might-have-beens.In a working-class family that considers sensitivity a “fatal diagnosis,” how does a child grow up to be a poet? What happens when a body “meant to bend & breed” opts not to, then finds itself performing the labor of care regardless? Why do we think our “common griefs” so singular? Bad Hobby is a hard-earned meditation on questions like these—a dreamscape speckled with swans, ghosts, and weather updates.Fagan writes with a kind of practical empathy, lamenting pain and brutality while knowing, also, their inevitability. A dementing father, a squirrel limp in the talons of a hawk, a “child who won’t ever get born”: with age, Fagan posits, the impact of ordeals like these changes. Loss becomes instructive. Solitude becomes a shared experience. “You think your one life precious—”And Bad Hobby thinks—hard. About lineage, about caregiving. About time. It paces “inside its head, gazing skyward for a noun or phrase to / shatter the glass of our locked cars & save us.” And it does want to save us, or at least lift us, even in the face of immense bleakness, or loneliness, or the body changing, failing. “Don’t worry, baby,” Fagan tells us, the sparrow at her window. “We’re okay.”

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