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  Emotional Rollercoaster - A...

  D.A. Hopkins

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  This is different to your everyday collection of poems about love, heartache, God, humanity, addiction and don t forget to throw in a little joy too. I have also been able to take a moment and add my own little twist to a subject, it will make you change the way you see the simple things in life. The way two people see something can be totally different and if I don t show you, well you would have never even known about it. Written by an Australian poet D.A. Hopkins.

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  Notes from 1619: A Poetic...

  Horace Mungin, Marjory Wentworth

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  Horace Mungin’s brave attempt to fight against the multiple manifestations of injustice imposed by the conscious erasure of African American history is in keeping with the best of contemporary African American literature. Mungin deftly imagines the horrors of the Middle Passage, taking us back to the Cape Coast of Africa and telling the story of Khadija, “born to a time of trouble,” who was captured, imprisoned and carried on the slave ship, Clotilda “to look upon the world/That dark day of the/Darkest days in America.” And so it begins, the narrative journey that sweeps through these poems describing the African experience in America, “in this vacuum where there is no God.” In the pivotal poem “America,” Mungin lays it all out for us, from the “hocus pocus” of the ways in which the Constitution did not apply to black people, to the failures of Reconstruction and all that follows, these poems weave our history together until the present day and the election of Donald Trump to the presidency. This is a narrative we’ve never heard told in quite this way, and it provides a context and an understanding long missing from our national conversation.

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  Romeo and Juliet

  William Shakespeare

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  The most iconic love story of all time, Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is an epic-scale tragedy of desire and revenge. Despite the bitter rivalry that exists between their families, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet have fallen madly in love. But when the long-running rivalry boils over into murder, the young couple must embark on a dangerous and deadly mission to preserve their love at any cost.
  
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in January 2012.
  
  Lead funding for this production is provided by The Sidney E. Frank Foundation
  
  Adapted for Radio and Directed by: Martin Jarvis
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
  An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:
  Janine Barris as Young Lady, Boy Page to Paris, and others
  Richard Chamberlain as Prince Escalus
  Henry Clarke as Paris and others
  Logan Fahey as Tybalt and Balthasar
  Calista Flockhart as Juliet
  Nicholas Hormann as Lord Capulet
  Lily Knight as Lady Capulet
  Alan Mandell as Friar Laurence
  Alfred Molina as Chorus
  Darren Richardson as Sampson and Peter
  Alan Shearman as Lord Montague and others
  André Sogliuzzo as Gregory and others
  Josh Stamberg as Mercutio
  Mark J. Sullivan as Benvolio and others
  Julie White as Nurse
  Matthew Wolf as Romeo
  Sarah Zimmerman as Lady Montague and others
  
  Associate Producer: Christina Montaño
  Recording Engineer/Sound Designer/Mixer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
  Original Music by: Mark Holden and Michael Lopez
  Sound Effects Artist: Tony Palermo
  Music Supervisor: Scott Willis
  Editor: Wes Dewberry

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  War Songs

  Peter Cole, James Montgomery,...

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  Poems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian slave mother, 'Antarah ibn Shaddad struggled to win the recognition of his father and tribe. He defied social norms and, despite his outcast status, loyally defended his people.  'Antarah captured his tumultuous life in uncompromising poetry that combines flashes of tenderness with blood-curdling violence. His war songs are testaments to his life-long battle to win the recognition of his people and the hand of 'Ablah, the free-born woman he loved but who was denied him by her family. War Songs presents the poetry attributed to 'Antarah and includes a selection of poems taken from the later Epic of 'Antar, a popular story-cycle that continues to captivate and charm Arab audiences to this day with tales of its hero’s titanic feats of strength and endurance. 'Antarah’s voice resonates here, for the first time in vibrant, contemporary English, intoning its eternal truths: commitment to one’s beliefs, loyalty to kith and kin, and fidelity in love.An English-only edition.

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  The Poetry of James Russell...

  James Russell Lowell

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  James Russell Lowell was born on 22nd February 1819 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
   
  Lowell graduated from Harvard in 1838, and thence on to earn a law degree from Harvard Law School.  
   
  His literary life began in 1841 with his first published collection of poetry.  Three years later he married Maria White and they had several children although, sadly, only one was to survive childhood. 
   
  A consuming issue at the time was the abolition of slavery.  Lowell was a staunch supporter even going so far as to move to Philadelphia to edit an abolitionist newspaper.  His poems were fully in support of Emancipation and the ending of this terrible abomination.  His later views were milder and came in for some criticism.  
   
  His publication in 1848 of the long poem ‘A Fable for Critics’, satirising the poets and critics of the then current poetry scene caused an uproar.  That same year came ‘The Biglow Papers’, which increased his fame and his finances.  His use of the Yankee accent in his character’s dialogue was an inspiration for many. 
   
  Maria died in 1853 and Lowell decided to travel to Europe for some time before returning to Harvard to take up a professorship of languages.   In 1857 he re-married and also took on the editorship of that key periodical ‘The Atlantic Monthly’ whilst continuing to teach at Harvard. 
   
  Lowell wrote and published poetry and essay collections throughout his literary career and is acknowledged as one of the ‘Fireside Poets’, a group of New England poets that rivalled the popularity of British poets.  Their work was not controversial and suitable for whole families to enjoy hence their name and appeal.  Whilst Lowell’s own work does not now attract the same praise as his then contemporaries, he was their equal. 
   
  Towards the end of his life Lowell was appointed as ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain and later to the Court of St. James's.  
   
  His last years were a return home to his estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  By the summer of 1891 doctors had diagnosed cancer in his kidneys, liver and lungs.  There was nothing that they could do except prescribe opium for the pain. 
   
  James Russell Lowell died on the 12th of August 1891 on the Cambridge estate where he was also born.  He was 72. 
   
  01 - The Poetry of James Russell Lowell - An Introduction 
  02 - Columbus by James Russell Lowell 
  03 - George Washington by James Russell Lowell 
  04 - Abraham Lincoln by James Russell Lowell 
  05 - To H W L on His Birthday 27th February 1867 by James Russell Lowell 
  06 - To Charles Eliot Norton - Agro Dolce by James Russell Lowell 
  07 - Winter Evening Hymn To My Fire by James Russell Lowell 
  08 - The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell 
  09 - Midnight by James Russell Lowell 
  10 - On A Portrait of Dante by Giotto by James Russell Lowell 
  11 - A Contrast by James Russell Lowell 
  12 - Above and Below by James Russell Lowell 
  13 - Of the Dawn of Freedom by James Russell Lowell 
  14 - On Board the 76 by James Russell Lowell 
  15 - Trial by James Russell Lowell 
  16 - Ode to France, February 1848 by James Russell Lowell 
  17 - Slaves by James Russell Lowell 
  18 - An Incident in a Railroad Car by Jamers Russell Lowell 
  19 - Threnodia by James Russell Lowell 
  20 - A Requiem by James Russell Lowell 
  21 - On the Death of a Friends Child by James Russell Lowell

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  Immaculate (NHB Modern Plays)

  Oliver Lansley

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  A laugh-out-loud comedy first seen at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival, published alongside an extensive UK tour by Les Enfants Terribles in 2006.
  You're young, free and single and haven't had sex for the last eleven and a half months, then one morning you wake up pregnant and to make matters worse the Angel Gabriel is on your doorstep claiming parentage...
  'Genuinely a laugh a minute, with some real strokes of comic genius' Metro
  'In a Fringe which is filled with comedies, this has to be one of the funniest' British Theatre Guide

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