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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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  Who Carry Shit?

  Gideon Husswin

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  This audio-drama is in Pidgin English, widely spoken across Anglophonic West Africa. It centres on a masquerade festival that tells a story about the positive and the negative energies of human kind. Using colour semiotics, it centres on the achromatic scheme of black and white. The story is based on a pre-creation and creation biblical allusion, embedded within an imaginary hybrid African cultural context. It is a fight between Baba God and Oga Devil over who runs the affair of Man Pickin.

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  Persephone's Pancreas - A Myth &...

  Imé Corkery

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  Experience the raw and unfiltered journey of Imé Corkery as she fearlessly confronts the harsh realities of a rare and agonizing chronic illness in her breathtaking debut collection, Persephone's Pancreas. In this remarkable memoir of creative nonfiction, Imé takes you on an unforgettable odyssey that traverses the chasm between illness and earthly delights. From Netflix binges to the warmth of oxytocin, and from the intimacy of hospital date nights to the touch of the divine, this is a story that will capture your heart and soul. Imé Corkery's brave narrative not only explores the trials and tribulations of living with Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction (SOD), a rare and excruciating chronic illness, but also delves deep into the essence of love, both human and mythological. As you embark on this medical journey alongside our resilient heroine, you'll witness the escalating trials, the strengthening of drugs, and the profound descent into a world of myth. Persephone's Pancreas is a profound exploration of love, pain, and the intricate dance between the two. If you've ever experienced the rawness of human emotions, this poetic masterpiece is a must-read, offering solace and inspiration to all who seek the light in the darkest of times. 
  Harrowing, sharp-witted, tender, raw and necessary, this is an indelible account from a poet with the sheer nerve to keep testifying, even when ‘pain is at its zenith.’ Persephone’s Pancreas is a collection from a writer who deserves the title heroine. - Tracey Slaughter  
  Persephone's Pancreas draws us skin to skin with chronic pain...sensory detail, myth and the everyday, to find the things needed to survive the liminal and lost zones of a long ‘sick girl summer.’- Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor

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  Poets of the Eighteenth Century...

  Robert Burns, William Blake,...

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  For many in Europe the focus has shifted west to the Americas, both by settlement and by war against the indigenous tribes.  And then between themselves. 
   
  Democracy would be reborn by the American War of Independence. In the East India becomes the stage for further expansion. For our wordsmiths the world had become a wider page on which to write their thoughts.  Coleridge, Pope, Southey, Wordsworth speak with lyrical eloquence on subjects both great and small.  But always form the heart.

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  The Hour of Twilight

  George William Russell

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 different recordings of The Hour of Twilight by George William Russell, published in "Collected Poems" in 1913. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 18th, 2007.

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  Short Poetry Collection 131

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2014.

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