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  A Spring Harvest - Edited by JRR...

  Geoffrey Bache Smith, Charles...

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  The poems of this book were written at very various times, one (“Wind over the Sea”) I believe even as early as 1910, but the order in which they are here given is not chronological beyond the fact that the third part contains only poems written after the outbreak of the war. Of these some were written in England (at Oxford in particular), some in Wales and very many during a year in France from November 1915 to December 1916, which was broken by one leave in the middle of May. “The Burial of Sophocles,” which is here placed at the end, was begun before the war and continued at odd times and in various circumstances afterwards; the final version was sent me from the trenches. Beyond these few facts no prelude and no envoi is needed other than those here printed as their author left them. J. R. R. T.

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  The Beauty of the Husband - A...

  Anne Carson

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  The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in twenty-nine tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice–twenty-nine "tangos" of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long-time marriage that falls apart. Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects–love–and make it this powerful, this fresh, this devastating.

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  Nobody Asked For This: The new...

  Charly Cox

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  A beautiful poetry collection bringing together the collected works of bestselling poet Charly Cox for the very first time with new and exclusive material.  
  Nobody asked for this 
  Whatever this is 
  Nobody asked for this 
  Charly Cox lays bare the last decade of her life. 
  In this anthology of poetry, combining her bestselling collections She Must Be Mad and Validate Me, and with 70 new poems and handwritten annotations, she paints a complex picture of the formative experiences of womanhood and living with Bipolar II disorder. 
  From first loves, to lost loves, to the dark humour of mental illness, Nobody Asked For This is an intimate and unflinchingly honest exploration of growing up in the 21st century. 
  Charly Cox, an English poet, delves into the subjects of loss, grief, and death in her latest anthology. Her candid exploration of these themes provides a unique insight into the human condition and the challenges of living with Bipolar II disorder. 
  For fans of Bill Gates (Source Code) 
  HarperCollins 2023

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  Rock Paper Scissors - Three Plays

  Chris Bush

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  'Three options, as I see it – they'll kill it off entirely, you'll let it die of natural causes, I'm going to make it live again.'
  When the owner of a Sheffield scissor manufacturer dies, the future of the factory site falls into uncertainty. Can it be reborn as a fashionable music venue, converted into luxury apartments, or somehow reinvigorated so the old business can survive?
  There's more than just money or bricks and mortar at stake. It's about knowing where you fit in the world – knowing that somewhere there's still a place for you.
  Fresh, funny and heartfelt, Rock / Paper / Scissors are three intricately interwoven plays by Chris Bush about family, heritage and legacy. They were first performed simultaneously with the same cast moving between three theatres in Sheffield – the Crucible, the Lyceum and the Studio – as part of Sheffield Theatres' fiftieth birthday celebrations in 2022.
  While the three plays can be enjoyed separately, they also offer a uniquely rewarding opportunity for any company looking to take on the challenge of staging them together.

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― Fathers - 12...

  William Wordsworth, Elizabeth...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Fathers - An Introduction 
  2 - Anecdote for Fathers by William Wordsworth 
  3 - Any Father to Any Son by F B Money-Coutts 
  4 - Come Home Father by Henry Clay Work 
  5 - To Her Father with Some Verses by Anne Bradstreet 
  6 - Our Fathers Also by Rudyard Kipling 
  7 - Portrait of My Father as a Young Man by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  8 - The Sins of the Fathers by Stephen Crane 
  9 - To My Father on His Birthday by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  10 - The Father by Katharine Tynan 
  11 - Sonnet 37 - As a Decrepit Father Takes Delight by William Shakespeare 
  12 - A Poet's Father by Ambrose Bierce 
  13 - Epitaph on My Ever Honoured Father by Robert Burns

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  Phantasmagoria

  Lewis Carroll

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  Phantasmagoria, Lewis Carroll's longest poem, was first published by Macmillan and Co., London, in 1869. Written in seven cantos, it tells the tale, in quintains, of a gentleman called Tibbets and his experience conversing with a phantom. This amusing "epic" takes us through their initial fear of each other, a fierce debate over the goings-on of the supernatural world, and finally, to a touching mutual admiration.

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