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  The Unearthing - A Literary Mixtape

  Somara Theodore

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  The Unearthing is a brief collection of poems best accompanied by the written book. It takes on the age old poetry style of rhyming and cadence. The author's vision was to create a palette of words so vulnerable that the reader is able to paint their own pain, sorrow and joy onto the words and find healing in the release.

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  The Stone Age

  Jen Hadfield

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  At first sight, Jen Hadfield’s new collection is an astonishingly sharp depiction of the wild landscape of her Shetland home, its people and their working lives, and the things they make and live amongst. But the reader will soon discover in The Stone Age a work of visionary power: in Hadfield’s telling, everything – door and wall, flower and rain, shore and sea, the standing stones whose presences charge the land – has a living consciousness, one which can be engaged with as a personal encounter.The Stone Age is a timely reminder that our neurodiversity is a gift: we do not all see the world the world in the same way, and the sharing of our various experience enriches it immeasurably. Hadfield’s lyric line and unashamedly high-stakes wordplay are speech hard-won from silence, and provide nothing less than a portal into a different kind of being. The Stone Age is the work of a singular artist at the height of her powers, one which dramatically extends the range of our shared experience.

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  The Poetry of Lewis Carroll -...

  Lewis Carroll

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  Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson on the 27th January 1832 at Daresbury, Cheshire, the eldest boy and the third child.  Another eight followed.   
   
  When Dodgson was 11, his cleric father moved his family to Croft-on-Tees in the North Riding of Yorkshire.  Although his father was active and highly conservative his son was ambivalent with those values and with the Church as a whole. 
   
  In his early years Dodgson was educated at home and by age 7 he was reading the likes of ‘The Pilgrim's Progress’.  He also spoke with a stammer which he called his ‘hesitation’. 
   
  At 12 he was dispatched to Richmond Grammar School in North Yorkshire and then on to Rugby.  He sailed through the curriculum.  He was accepted at Christ Church, Oxford but two days after arriving he was summoned home: his mother had died of ‘inflammation of the brain’ at only 47. 
   
  Dodgson was exceptionally gifted and, when not distracted, achievement came easily to him.  He remained at Christ Church studying and teaching in various capacities until his death. 
   
  In March 1856, he published the romantic poem ‘Solitude’ as by ‘Lewis Carroll’.  
   
  That same year he took up the new art of photography.  He soon excelled and became a well-known gentleman-photographer, and even toyed with the idea of making a living out of it.  When he ceased photography in 1880, he had his own studio and had created around 3,000 images. 
   
  He enjoyed moderate success with his early poems and short stories but had an array of other interests in the pre-Raphaelite circle, Psychical Research and even ordained in the Church of England in 1861.  
   
  In July 1862 he told a young Alice Liddell the story that would become his first and greatest success.  Alice begged him to write it down, and eventually he did and later presented her with a handwritten and illustrated ‘Alice's Adventures Under Ground’.  The publisher Macmillan agreed to publish it as ‘Alice's Adventures in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll.  
   
  It was a huge and sensational life-changing success.  Royalties quickly accumulated as did fan mail.  
   
  In 1871, the darker themed sequel ‘Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There’ was published.  A half decade later came ‘The Hunting of the Snark’, a fantastical nonsense poem, as nine tradesmen and a beaver set off to find the snark.  It was another enormous success. 
   
  He also loved to invent such delights as a writing tablet ‘the nyctograph’ that allowed note-taking in the dark as well as many word games, such as the precursor to ‘Scrabble’, and alternative systems of parliamentary voting.  Within the discipline of mathematics, he worked in geometry, linear and matrix algebra, mathematical logic, recreational mathematics and wrote nearly a dozen books on the subject.   
   
  Lewis Carroll died of pneumonia following influenza on 14th January 1898 in Guildford, Surrey.  He was 65.  
   
  1 - The Poetry of Lewis Carroll - An Introduction 
  2 - The Walrus & the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll 
  3 - A Lobster Quadrille by Lewis Carroll 
  4 - Turtle Soup by Lewis Carroll 
  5 - How Doth the Little Crocodile by Lewis Carroll 
  6 - Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll 
  7 - A Valentine by Lewis Carroll 
  8 - The Mad Gardener's Song by Lewis Carroll 
  9 - The Knight's Song by Lewis Carroll 
  10 - The Deserted Parks by Lewis Carroll 
  11 - Humpty Dumpty's Recitation by Lewis Carroll 
  12 - A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky (Life Is But a Dream) by Lewis Carroll 
  13 - You Are Old Father William (from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) by Lewis Carroll 
  14 - Lays of Sorrow by Lewis Carroll 
  15 - A Sea Dirge by Lewis Carroll 
  16 - Melancholetta by Lewis Carroll 
  17 - Phantasmagoria.

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  Short Poetry Collection 042

  Various Various

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  LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 042: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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  Sunset Song (NHB Modern Plays) -...

  Lewis Grassic Gibbon

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  A classic of Scots literature, brilliantly adapted for the stage.
  Sunset Song is the first novel in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Scots Quair trilogy, a rich evocation of growing up on a farm in Scotland in the early-20th century, of being in love and in lust, of getting by as a young mother on your own and of losing your lover in war.
  The distinguishing feature of the books - and of this dramatisation - is the use of the rhythms and vocabulary of Scots to tell the story.
  This stage version of Sunset Song by Alastair Cording was first performed at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in 1991.
  'Succeeds marvellously... puts Scotland's own history onto the stage with vigour, precision and skill... a pure piece of theatre' - Guardian
  'Does full justice to Grassic Gibbon... a joy and a wrench to watch its blithe unfolding of tragedy and hope' - Scotland on Sunday

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  Restoration Comedy: Three Plays...

  William Congreve, Aphra Behn,...

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  'One no more owes one's beauty to a lover, than one's wit to an echo.'
  With the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the republican ban on organised theatre was lifted – and plays exploded back onto the public stage with newfound relish. The arrival of actresses for the first time encouraged a great sense of release, which expressed itself in the form of sophisticated comedies exploring the sexual behaviour and moralities of society.
  This volume features three of the most popular Restoration Comedies:
  The Country Wife by William Wycherley - a supremely bawdy comedy in which the aptly named Horner pretends to be a eunuch in order to seduce women under the noses of their husbands.
  The Way of the World by William Congreve - a brilliant comedy of manners, complete with dashing suitor, rich heiress and vengeful aunt.
  The Rover by Aphra Behn - the classic Restoration comedy by one of the earliest and most celebrated female playwrights.
  There is also a full introduction about the plays, playwrights and the period, and a glossary of unfamiliar words.
  The Drama Classic Collections bring together the most popular plays from a single author or a particular period. They offer students, actors and theatregoers a series of uncluttered, accessible editions, accompanied by comprehensive introductions.

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