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  Little Eagles (NHB Modern Plays)

  Rona Munro

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  Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin's first orbit around the Earth, Little Eagles tells the fascinating and little-known story of Sergei Korolyov, chief designer and unsung hero of the Soviet space programme.
  Under Korolyov's leadership the 'little eagles' of the USSR beat the Americans in the early stages of the space race, achieving a series of firsts, including the first human in space.
  Rona Munro's gripping play illuminates the life and work of a brilliant engineer who struggled to meet the military demands of his ruthless political masters, whilst devoting as much time as possible to his real passion, exploring outer space.
  Little Eagles was first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2011.
  'What Munro gives us is not just a tribute to an unsung hero but a fascinating study of Korolyov's growing conflict with the military and political machine... a gripping story' - Guardian
  'It's all terrific dramatic material' - Daily Mail
  'Some speeches are verbal wonders' - Arts Desk
  'Wry humour, and charged emotional moments... remind us of the writer who penned both Bold Girls and Iron' - Herald, Scotland

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  Ancient Script of Lovecontu...

  Kaitlynzq

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  Ancient Script of Lovecontu audio poemmultiple poems designed to connect to form a story as a heart's breath an excerpt from Ancient Script of Lovecontu audio poem“…Captivated, she draws nearerCloser to…than she’s ever gone before…”

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  White Piano

  Nicole Brossard

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  language I'll say yes from the top of my rib cage language will you come out and unearth the salt the certitude
   
  Between the verbs quivering and streaming, White Piano unfolds its variations like musical scores. A play of resonance between pronouns and persons, freely percussive between prose and poetry, and narrating a constellation of questions, White Piano offers readers a 'language that cultivates its own craters of fire and savoir-vie.'
   
  'At once achingly aware of mortality and hell-bound in its determination to press forward, change, and grow, White Piano is as brave as it is linguistically rich.'
   
  – Quill & Quire
   
  '[Brossard] writes with a poetic intensity that burns select lines and sometimes entire paragraphs into the reader's mind.'
   
  – Montreal Gazette

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  The Poetry Of Hell

  William Blake, John Milton,...

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  The Poetry Of Hell - An Introduction. It is often said that two things are unavoidable; Death and Taxes. Certainly the latter is a common thorn in adult life but as to the former it seems that for many people it is merely a hiccup in Life’s eternal journey. A journey they wish, if being of good deed and character, to share at the eternity of Heaven’s largesse, a reward for Faith and the obligations of Religion. Of course for those not so fortunate an altogether different experience was prepared for them; Hell. Its nightmare visions so terrifying conjured up by Dante, Milton, Blake, Baudelaire and many others.   If Faith is your companion it is a very realistic world to avoid.  As though gathered here will testify in their rich verse. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.

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  Paradise Now! (NHB Modern Plays)

  Margaret Perry

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  Gabriel Dolan's never been up to much. That's what everyone says. Until she meets Alex, a young, ambitious woman who sells essential oils for a multi-level marketing company called Paradise – and overnight, Gabriel is drawn into a bright, new, floral-scented world.
  In Paradise, you're your own boss. In Paradise, you could make a fortune. Embraced by a new community of women just like her, Gabriel rises through the ranks of the company like a shooting star. But when she gets to the top, it doesn't quite feel like she thought it would.
  Margaret Perry's Paradise Now! is a funny and raging play about ambition, exploitation and the search for connection in a fractured world. It was first performed by an all-female cast at the Bush Theatre, London, in December 2022, directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart.

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  Hell I Love Everybody: The...

  James Tate

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  An essential collection of James Tate’s extraordinary poems that will captivate today’s readers, with a foreword by Terrance Hayes 
  Celebrating James Tate’s work as it transcends convention, time, and everything that tells us, “No, you can’t do that,” Hell, I Love Everybody gives us the poet at his best, his most intimate, hopeful, inventive, and brilliant. John Ashbery called Tate the “poet of possibilities,” and this collection records forays into possibilities for American poetry’s future. With a foreword by Terrance Hayes, it is sure to give readers new and old a lasting collection of favorites.

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