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  St David's Day - A Holiday in Verse

  Alun Lewis, Dafydd ap Gwilym, W....

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  It comes as no surprise to the average Welsh person that their culture continues to thrive despite centuries of seeming servitude to the English.  Wales, exemplified by the symbol of the Welsh dragon, is a small proud nation of many talents, large imaginations and even bigger hearts. 
   
  Saint David's Day, or the Feast of Saint David falls on the 1st March each year on the anniversary of his death in 589 AD. The feast has been regularly celebrated since his canonisation in the 12th century. 
   
  Traditional festivities include wearing the symbols of Wales and St David; daffodils and leeks, eating the National dish of cawl, a thick heartwarming soup, as well as the classic Welsh rarebit, and parades throughout the day featuring the traditional dress. 
   
  The pride in its culture and history is keenly felt and in this volume the poets of Wales through the ages bring verse that fortifies and uplifts the soul of a nation and its much admired literary merits.  
  1 - St David's Day - A Holiday in Verse  - An Introduction 
  2 - Grongar Hill by John Dyer 
  3 - Home, Fair Was The Morning Fair Our Tempers by Edward Thomas 
  4 - The Waterfall  by Henry Vaughan 
  5 - Sweet Empty Sky of June by Henry Vaughan 
  6 - from Chepstow - A Poem - Tinturn Abbey by Edward Davies 
  7 - The Grey Steed by Gwerfyl Mechain 
  8 - The Fox by Robert Williams Parry 
  9 - On a Mountain Tumulus by Dafydd ap Gwilym 
  10 - Llyn Y Gadair by T H Parry-Williams 
  11 - Plynlimmon by Lewis Glyn Cothi 
  12 - The Kingfisher by W H Davies 
  13 - In May by William Henry Davies 
  14 - Cock Crow by Edward Thomas 
  15 - All Day It Has Rained by Alun Lewis 
  16 - from Education In Wales by Rowland Williams 
  17 - Here's the Life I’ve Sigh’d For Long by Iolo Goch 
  18 - The Depression by David Gwenalt-Jones 
  19 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones 
  20 - In Praise of Wales by Talhaiarn 
  21 - Praise of a Girl by Huw Morus 
  22 - A Fleeting Passion by William Henry Davies 
  23 - Song of the Worker's Wife by Alice Gray Jones 
  24 - from The Happy Farmer by Iolo Morganwg 
  25 - Miners by Wilfred Owen 
  26 - This Poor Man by William John Gruffydd 
  27 - Old Man by Edward Thomas 
  28 - Wondrous Sight For Men by Ann Griffiths 
  29 - Has Your Soul Sipped by Wilfred Owen 
  30 - Faith by George Herbert 
  31 - Apologia Pro Poemate Meo by Wilfred Owen 
  32 - Exposure by Wilfred Owen 
  33 - War by Hedd Wyn 
  34 - There's An Open Door by Ann Griffiths 
  35 - The Immovable Covenant by Hugh Derfel 
  36 - The Black Spot by Hedd Wyn 
  37 - Expecting The Lord by Ann Griffiths 
  38 - Church Monuments by George Herbert 
  39 - A Flower Sunday Lullaby by Eiffion Wynn 
  40 - Virtue by George Herbert 
  41 - Hymn XLI by William Williams Pantycelyn 
  42 - Song to Mead by Taliesin 
  43 - The Owl Disturbs the Bard's Sleep by Dafydd ap Gwilym 
  44 - The Perishing World. From 'The Sleeping Bard' by Elis Wynn 
  45 - Lullaby by Roberty Bryan 
  46 - The Fold of the Bards Book of Taliesin 
  47 - from Arthur's Passing by Thomas Gwynn Jones 
  48 - An Elegy on the Death of Llywelyn ab Gruyffyd by Gruffydd ap Yr Ynad Coch 
  49 - In Memory of Mair Eluned by T Marchant Williams 
  50 - Goodbye by Alun Lewis 
  51 - Friends Departed by Henry Vaughan

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  Fast (NHB Modern Plays)

  Fin Kennedy

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  A twenty-four-hour school fundraiser in a semi-rural town takes on a new urgency when farmer's daughter Cara refuses to eat again until the supermarkets she holds responsible for her father's suicide agree to her demands.
  Fast is an ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.

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  The Importance of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde

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  This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag.  Jack and Algernon are best friends, both wooing ladies who think their names are Ernest, “that name which inspires absolute confidence.”  Wilde’s effervescent wit, scathing social satire, and high farce make this one of the most cherished plays in the English language.Includes an interview with director Michael Hackett, Professor of Theater in the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:James Marsters as JackCharles Busch as Lady BracknellEmily Bergl as CecilyNeil Dickson as Lane and MerrimanJill Gascoine as Miss PrismChristopher Neame as ChasubleMatthew Wolf as AlgernonSarah Zimmerman as GwendolenDirected by Michael Hackett. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

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  Antigone (unabridged)

  Sophocles

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  Antigone, daughter of Jocasta and Oedipus, faces great challenges when she must arrange a formal burial for her brother, Polynices.  This rendition of Antigone by Sophocles is of the highest caliber audio.  It's completely unabridged.  Enjoy the classic story of Antigone narrated to perfection.

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  Cuba Story

  Victoria Wright

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  A salsa dance inspired trip to Cuba converts to dangerous circumstances that prevent Tillia from returning home to Australia, painting an entirely different reality of Cuba as she tries to escape while learning the truth about the culture, romance and mystery of Havana. Synopsis A passionate and adventurous girl from Australia saves money all summer with a unique and romantic dream to travel to Cuba to dance in search of the best Salsa Dancers (Salseros) in the world. She travels alone from Spain and arranges to stay in the centre of the city with a Cuban family and becomes truly intimate with the restrictive, socialist circumstances of Cuban life. Although she is well travelled and speaks Spanish, she encounters the complete opposite of what she had envisioned. She becomes very ill and meets some characters that only leave her with feelings of a broken dream, with the exception of one handsome Cuban who gives her some medicine. Things change when she meets an Australian couple and travels 6 hours to ‘Trinidad de Cuba’. There she meets some journalists from the New York Times, recently arrived from Panama to write a story about the upcoming changes in Cuba and makes a deal with them. Shortly after she discovers she cannot access her bank account. She finds herself with no money and no way back to the city. There is no internet access, phones, Western Union on Australian embassy and her new friends have moved onto Santa Clara. Tilia struggles to find her way back to Havana and spends 6 weeks in Cuba without money risking everything to survive and try to get a flight home. A true story of self discovery, survival and the tragedy of contrasting worlds.

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  The Paradise Tree - Personal...

  John Davey

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  The Paradise Tree is a beautiful devotional companion about the experience of God and giving expression to our inner spirituality.
  
   
  A creative mixture of poetry, prose and scripture, this book will challenge preconceptions about the nature of God, heaven, hell, intercessory prayer, and the relevance of human existence within the vastness of an unfathomable universe.
  
   
  This book is about personal discipleship and giving witness to the presence of God to the world around us. It is about finding within our inner being the meaning of life itself and about our future destiny. To do this we need to reflect upon the life and witness of a man who lived two thousand years ago and who, by his life of personal sacrifice to the needs of others in the name of love, gave visible expression to the reality and being of God, in the everyday life of humankind.

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