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  Crabwise to the Hounds

  Jeramy Dodds

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  Winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry
    
     
    Nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Award.
    
     
    
    
     
    With cameos by jackalopes, Glenn Gould, homemade spaceships and Carl Linnaeus, these poems are remarkable for their technical agility and their restless inventiveness. There's anelegance here that matches Dodds' impulse to challenge the reader with fresh metaphor and astonishing phrasing; the formal ambitions of many of the poems in  Crabwise to the Hounds  are balanced by an inclination towards wordplay and abright musicality. Humorous at times, yet always handled with consummate craft, these poems invoke historical figures like Hiram Bingham and Ho Chi Minh even as they traverse a poetic landscape that includes telephone-game-style translations, interpretive dance poems on historic paintings and carnivalesque jaunts into a natural world overrun with mules, Alsatians, lions, and motorcycle-sized-deer.

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  Snakebit

  David Marshall Grant

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  Jennifer and Jonathan, a showbiz couple, leave their ailing daughter in New York City to come to Hollywood, so Jonathan can audition for a film. And when Jennifer stays with her old friend Michael, a dancer turned social worker, past sins shed new light on the present in the age of AIDS.   
   
  This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ “Chicago Theaters on the Air” series, produced in conjunction with Remains Theatre.  
   
  Recorded before a live audience at Chicago’s Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in February 1993. 
   
  Theatrical Direction by Campbell Scott 
  Directed for Radio by Mary McAuliffe 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: 
   
  Talia Balsam as Jennifer 
  John Benjamin Hickey as Michael 
  Harry Hutchinson as the Man 
  D.W. Moffett as Jonathan 
   
  Radio Producer: Robert Newhouse 
  Recording Engineer: Larry Rock 
  Production Stager Manager: Jan Watson 
  Live Sound Effects: Kim Soren Watson

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  Run to Freedom

  Dawn Forrester Price

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  KOFI'S QUEST. KWAME'S ARROW 
  "Run to Freedom" is the first of a trilogy set on an 18th century Jamaican plantation. 13-year-old Kofi is an enslaved African who works in the pickney gang on McDermott Plantation. His father, Kwame, secretly trains him in tribal knowledge and hunting skills and embeds the urge to escape the plantation in Kofi's psyche. Kwame has been covertly meeting the Maroons, planning to escape, join the mountain warriors and provide intelligence to facilitate a successful raid for arms. ammunition and food. Kwame's chief intent is to rescue his family in the chaos of the attack and take them to live in the mountains with the freedom fighters. 
  But something goes horribly wrong: Kwame is captured and killed. Vowing to succeed where his father failed, young Kofi makes an ill-timed attempt to run away: he is captured and punished severely. Though scarred for life as a result of his failed escape attempt, Kofi is undaunted and determined to try again. 
  Will he succeed where his father failed?

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  A God in Need of Help

  Sean Dixon

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  Nominated for the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama
    
     
    
     It's 1606 and Europe is at war over God. At the behest of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, Venice's four strongest men are charged with transporting a holy painting - Albrecht Dürer's  The Brotherhood of the Rosary  - across the Alps to Prague. In the small Alpine village of Pusterwald, they are set upon by Protestant zealots; their escape is attributed to a miracle.
    
     
    
     The strongmen and their captain are summoned to an inquiry, led by the magistrate of Venice and the cardinal archbishop of Milan, to determine whether something divine did indeed occur. Each man's recounting adds a layer of colour to the canvas.
    
     
    
     Through this vividly painted mystery, inspired by true events, Sean Dixon challenges the role of faith at thedawn of the Age of Reason.

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  Perfection Comes at a Price

  Ulla Beattie

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  Eric has a miserable childhood in a violent, drunken family in a tough London housing estate. He compensates by looking for perfection. For him, this means worldly success in a diplomatic career as far away from his childhood as possible. His single-minded ambition comes at a price. It makes him leave his childhood sweetheart Katie behind, since he knows that she can’t keep up with him. Their ways part. Eric marries an upper-class woman and becomes an Ambassador. However, Katie and he never quite lose touch. After his wife’s death Eric and Katie come together again. There is action and pace, fun and sadness, a huge variety of life experiences and a sense of providence and redemption.

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  Top 10 Poets – England The - The...

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, John...

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
  For centuries England has always had a leading and admired reputation for its poets and poetry.  In this volume we explore those born in the East Midlands who created such revered, enduring and respected verse.

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