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  William Blake Poems

  William Blake

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  This Audiobook of William Blake's poems has the following poems rendered by Ramani. 
  A Divine Image 
  A Poison Tree 
  Ah! Sun-flower 
  America: A Prophecy 
  Auguries of Innocence 
  Earth's Answer 
  Europe: A Prophecy 
  Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean 
  Holy Thursday: Is this a holy thing to see 
  I Heard an Angel 
  I Saw a Chapel 
  Infant Joy 
  Infant Sorrow 
  Introduction to the Songs of Experience 
  Introduction to the Songs of Innocence 
  Jerusalem: England! awake! awake! awake! 
  Jerusalem: I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep 
  London 
  Mad Song 
  Milton: And did those feet in ancient time 
  Milton: But in the Wine-presses the Human Grapes Sing not nor Dance 
  Milton: The Sky is an Immortal Tent Built by the Sons of Los 
  Never Seek to Tell thy Love 
  Silent, Silent Night 
  Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field 
  Song: Memory, hither come 
  Song: My silks and fine array 
  The Book of Thel 
  The Book of Urizen 
  The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow 
  The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young 
  The Clod and the Pebble 
  The Divine Image 
  The Four Zoas 
  The French Revolution 
  The Garden of Love 
  The Grey Monk 
  The Lamb 
  The Little Black Boy 
  The Little Vagabond 
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 
  The Sick Rose 
  The Smile 
  The Tyger 
  To the Muses

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  The Hales Brothers and the Irish...

  Liz Gillis

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  The story of the Hales family from Bandon epitomises the whole revolutionary period in Ireland. They were involved from the establishment of the Irish Volunteers in West Cork and were closely associated with well-known revolutionary figures, including Michael Collins, Tom Barry and Liam Deasy. Both Seán and Tom were company commanders in the IRA in the area. The signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921 split the family and led to the two brothers taking opposing sides in the Civil War that would follow.
  Tom Hales was the most senior Republican officer on the scene of the chaotic ambush at Béal na mBláth that led to the shooting of Michael Collins. Seán Hales was himself assassinated in Dublin by Republicans, following a vote in Dáil Éireann to allow the Provisional Government to increase its powers to penalise Republican prisoners.The story of these brothers and the rest of the family gives a unique insight into life in Ireland in this tumultuous period.

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  On a Wave

  Thad Ziolkowski

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  In this wry and exhilarating coming-of-age story, a prizewinning poet poignantly looks back at his adolescent surfing years.   As a disenchanted, unemployed English professor, Thad Ziolkowski decides one day to sneak away from his temp job in Manhattan and catch a wave off a dingy Queens shoreline. In the meager cold waves, he contemplates how he could have possibly become a semidepressed, chain-smoking, aimless man when, for a few shining years of his boyhood, he was invincible. His lapsed love affair with the ocean begins amid the late-sixties counterculture in coastal Florida. After his parents’ divorce, nine-year-old Thad escapes from his difficult family—notably a new brooding and explosive stepfather—by heading for the thrilling, uncharted waters of the local beach. In the embrace of the surf, he is able to stay offshore for years, until his life is upended once again, this time by a double tragedy that deposits him at a crossroads between a life in the waves and a life on land. Lyrical and disarmingly funny, On a Wave is a glorious portrait of youth that reminds readers of Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life and Frank Conroy’s Stop-Time.   “A sharp, self-conscious portrait of the artist as a young grommet.” —The New Yorker

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  The One Thing We've Never Spoken...

  Elfy Scott

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  An investigation into the failings of Australia's mental healthcare system, grounded in a personal story of a mother–daughter relationshipJournalist Elfy Scott grew up in a household where her mother's schizophrenia was rarely, if ever, spoken about. They navigated this silence outside the family home too; for many years, this complex mental health condition was treated as an open secret.Over the past two decades, we have started talking more about common mental health conditions like depression and anxiety. But complex conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and psychosis have been left behind, as have many of the people who live with these conditions or who care for them.Part memoir, part deep-dive investigation, The One Thing We've Never Spoken About is filled with rage at how our nation's public discourse, emergency services and healthcare systems continue to fail so many people. It is also a work of care, telling the little-heard stories of people who live with these conditions and work at the front lines of mental health. Above all, this timely, compelling book is informed by hope and courage, breaking down taboos and asking big questions about vulnerability, justice and duty of care.‘Expansive and generous … brimming with kindness, revelatory accounts and wit. The book itself is a thing of grace.' Rick Morton‘Elfy brings empathy, reason and generosity to a book Australia so desperately needs.' Zara McDonald‘Absorbing and mind-opening, this is panoramic in scope, while offering a deeply intimate portrait of fierce familial love and care.' Benjamin Law

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  The Devil That Danced on the...

  Aminatta Forna

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  “[An] elegantly written mix of complex history, riveting memoir and damning exposé,” from this award-winning Sierra Leonean author (Publishers Weekly).   As a child, Aminatta Forna was witness to the political upheaval and social unrest of post-colonial Africa. Forced to flee her home for exile in Britain, she was subject to the consequences of her dissident father’s actions.   After war had abated in Sierra Leone, Aminatta’s father, Mohamed, returned to his country to be part of the fledgling democracy. But as progress gave way to dictatorships and corruption, Mohamed soon found himself caught in a dangerous political battle, imprisoned for his beliefs and facing far worse.   Years later, Aminatta returns to her home country as an adult and a journalist. Searching for the truth of her father’s fate and her country’s destiny, she uncovers a harrowing web of intrigue, conspiracy, and painful revelations.  The Devil That Danced on the Water is an “extremely moving” memoir of family, heritage, and innocence lost (The Guardian).

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  Breaking Night - A Memoir of...

  Liz Murray

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  Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep.When Liz's mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a New York Times scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. Breaking Night is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.

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