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  Tucked Away - Granny's 98 years...

  Margaret Candy

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  Tucked away in drawers on odd pieces of paper was a quietly extraordinary collection of poems written over 76 years. Margaret Candy, now 98, never imagined anyone else reading the poems she wrote often in the middle of the night. Poems rich with love, loss, laughter, grief, and the simple moments that make life memorable. 
  Tucked Away invites you into a deeply personal world. These poems reflect:Family and generations: From parents to great-grandchildren, capturing the legacy of ordinary lives.Life, memory, and everyday stories: Small joys, quiet hardships, and moments that linger.Reflections on aging and the passage of time: Honest insights from someone who has seen nearly a century unfold. 
  These poems have been collated by her grandson, Joel Mackereth, the collection remains authentic and unpolished. Maintaining the reflection of a life lived with curiosity, resilience, and humor. 
  Whether you are drawn to poetry about family, memoir poetry, reflective poems about life, aging, and time, or simply love heartfelt verse, this collection resonates with readers seeking honest storytelling in poetry. 
  Tucked Away is a gift for anyone who treasures the ordinary, quietly extraordinary life: to read, share, and reflect on the threads that connect us across generations.

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  Small Island (NHB Modern Plays)...

  André Levy

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  Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica. Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer. Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Three intimately connected stories, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain.
  Andrea Levy's epic novel, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, journeys from Jamaica to Britain in 1948 – the year that HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury.
  Small Island was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 2019, in an acclaimed production directed by Rufus Norris. This revised edition of the play was published alongside the revival of the production in 2022.
  'Extraordinary. A spectacular adaptation of Andrea Levy's Windrush novel' - Observer
  'Edmundson has a knack for skilfully distilling story... ferociously entertaining' - Time Out
  
  'A landmark in the National Theatre's history: a tumultuous epic about first-generation Jamaican immigrants... skilfully adapted... one of the most important plays of the year' - Guardian

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  Love's Lost and Found - Poetry...

  Reginald Antonio Forest

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  Love hurts, heals, and haunts—and these poems aren’t afraid to tell the truth. 
   
  What if every heartbreak, betrayal, and goodbye was actually a map back to yourself? In Love’s Lost and Found, Reginald Antonio Forest lays bare the messy, resilient journey of the heart—from a son aching for his mother’s love, to lovers tangled in lust and infidelity, to the grief of losing a soulmate too soon. With raw honesty and vivid imagery, these poems move through abandonment, desire, depression, and devastation toward hard-won self-worth and the quiet hope of beginning again. 
  Set against the backdrop of real-life love stories and losses, this collection speaks to anyone who has ever stayed too long, given too much, or loved someone they had to learn to live without. Whether you’re nursing fresh wounds or tracing old scars, Love’s Lost and Found will make you feel seen, understood, and less alone in the aftermath of love.

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  Six Characters

  Luigi Pirandello

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  Six Characters by Luigi Pirandello is a groundbreaking theatrical masterpiece that revolutionized modern drama and challenged the very nature of reality, identity, and storytelling. Bold, innovative, and intellectually provocative, this seminal work dismantles the boundaries between fiction and life, drawing audiences into a world where characters demand to be heard and truth becomes a shifting, elusive force.
  
  The play opens in the midst of a theatrical rehearsal when six mysterious figures suddenly appear on stage. They are not actors but "characters"—abandoned creations of an author who never completed their story. Desperate for their drama to be realized, they interrupt the rehearsal and insist that the director and actors bring their tragic tale to life. What unfolds is a layered and self-reflective exploration of illusion and authenticity, as the characters argue that their emotional reality is more genuine than the artificial performances of the actors attempting to portray them.
  
  At the heart of the work lies a haunting family drama marked by betrayal, misunderstanding, guilt, and suffering. Each of the six figures carries a distinct perspective on shared events, exposing the instability of truth and the subjectivity of memory. As their story is reenacted and contested on stage, tensions escalate between the characters and the theatrical company, blurring the line between performance and lived experience.
  
  Pirandello's genius lies in his daring experimentation with form. By breaking the "fourth wall" and embedding a play within a play, he invites audiences to question the nature of authorship, the fluidity of identity, and the relationship between art and reality. The result is a meta-theatrical work that feels startlingly modern, anticipating later developments in existential and absurdist drama.
  
  Beyond its formal innovation, Six Characters offers profound philosophical insight. It suggests that individuals are trapped within the roles they inhabit, unable to escape the perceptions of others. Reality itself becomes fragmented—constructed through interpretation rather than fixed fact. In this way, Pirandello examines the human condition with both irony and compassion, revealing the fragile boundaries between truth and illusion.
  
  A cornerstone of 20th-century theatre, Six Characters transformed dramatic art and cemented Pirandello's legacy as one of the most influential playwrights of modern literature. Challenging, thought-provoking, and emotionally charged, this unforgettable work continues to captivate readers and audiences alike with its daring vision and timeless exploration of identity and existence.

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  Short Poetry Collection 084

  Various

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  This is an open collection of poems for the months of November and December 2009.

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  Selected Poems of John Clare...

  John Clark

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  John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England’s greatest nature poet. He rose to fame when his ‘Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery’ was published in 1820. His language preserves many local dialect words in a mixture of classical forms and heart-felt love of country life and nature. The poems in this collection are from his early career, and are largely free of pointers to his later mental illness. (Summary by David Barnes).

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