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  Gothic Poetry

  Rachel Lawson

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  Gothic Poetry by poet and short story writer Rachel LawsonLost In The Shadows Of The Past 
  I am lost and forgotten as a living being, 
  Lost in the grim dark shadows of death, 
  I live in legend and as a vague memory of life, 
  I am as I was but am nothing but dust and bone, 
  A mere curiosity of a life lived, a requiem. 
  Lost in the shadows of the past, forgotten to time

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  Everybody Is a Poem - Midlife in...

  Jan Brierton

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  For the multitaskers, the overreactors, the silent screamers and the quiet lovers
  
  Everybody Is a Poem: Midlife in Rhymes is Jan Brierton's second collection. Inspired by Jan's popular podcast these 52 poems delve into the darkest and brightest moments of our day, month or year.
  Combining rhyme and illustration, Jan puts simple words to those deepest of feelings. She riffs on menopause, midlife, the mental load, friendships, relationships, loss and self-acceptance. Plain-speaking and completely relatable, each poem is served with Jan's signature combination of humour, wit and poignancy.
  
  
  This is poetry for everybody.

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  The Buccaneer

  Hollywood Stage Productions

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  Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's The Buccaneer starring Clark Gable.

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  The Poetry of James Weldon Johnson

  James Weldon Johnson

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  James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida on June 17th 1871.  His mother, Helen, a musician and a public school teacher initially home-schooled him giving him a love of both English literature and European music.  
   
  At 16 his education moved to Atlanta University and he graduated with a degree in 1894.   
   
  In 1904 Johnson helped in Theodore Roosevelt's presidential bid.  On winning Roosevelt appointed him as US consul at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela in 1906 and then Nicaragua from 1909.  
   
  Johnson worked for the NAACP from 1916 as a field secretary, organizing local chapters.  To counter race riots and lynching’s he organized mass demonstrations, such as a silent protest parade of over ten thousand African Americans down New York’s Fifth Avenue in July 1917.  
   
  In 1920 Johnson was elected to manage the NAACP, the first African American to hold this position.  That same year he was dispatched to monitor conditions in Haiti and described in The Nation the brutal occupation and also offered remedies. During the 1920’s he was one of the major inspirations of the Harlem Renaissance 
   
  In the midst of all this he continued to write novels, poems, and folklore. In 1917, he saw published ‘50 Years and Other Poems’.  In 1922, he edited ‘The Book of American Negro Poetry’, which the Academy of American Poets calls "a major contribution to the history of African-American literature." In 1927 followed ‘God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse’.  
   
  One of the first African-American professors at NYU he was also, later, a professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University. His career spanned several elements; education, the diplomatic corps, civil rights activism, literature, poetry, and music.  
   
  James Weldon Johnson died on June 26th, 1938 whilst vacationing in Wiscasset, Maine when his car was hit by a train.

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  Mr Deeds Goes to Town

  Hollywood Stage Productions

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  Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's Mr Deeds Goes to Town starring Gary Cooper & Jean Arthur.

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  Voices of Poetry Volume 1

  J.R.R. Tolkien, Edith Sitwell,...

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  Hear rare recordings from some of the world's most-respected poets reading their own works: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hoard; E.E. Cummings, Prose Jottings; Archibald Macleish, The Old Man to the Lizard; Ted Hughes, Six Young Men; May Swenson, Naked in Borneo; Marilyn Hacker, The Dark Twin; Kenneth Patchen, 23rd Street Runs into Heaven; Edith Sitwell, An Old Woman; Theodore Roethke, The Bat. 
  Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan. 
  ©2009 Rick Sheridan (P)2009 Rick Sheridan

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