Editorial: Nick Hern Books
Avid insect-collector Jamie Purdy and his disintegrating granny are new to the Morayshire caravan park where George-Michael Skinner and his young mother Bunny lives. But this is no ordinary mother and son relationship. A darkly surreal and richly comic play from Morna Pearson, former member of the Traverse Theatre's Young Writers Group.
This is an imaginary drama in verse in which US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pleads with President George Bush Jr to be allowed to chronicle the glorious presidency of Mr Bush after his second inauguration. Of course, he is allowed to do so. Thus emerges a gentle satire which is also a social commentary of our time, replete with a large cast which includes Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, the Ghost of Saddam Hussain, and others, not to mention a sombre 'Chorus of the Homeless' providing a rational commentary throughout. An echo of Greek tragedies of yore.Clarence Thomas, the pious altar boy, seemed the right person for this 'heavenly' task of penning a Gospel. The U.S. Supreme Court is a comfortable place, but not necessarily a redemptive place that Thomas craves.As a footnote, the new presidency of Joseph Biden seems a proper moment to re-visit the initiation of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991. Mr Biden chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time and denied any corroborating witnesses to Prof. Anita Hill who had accused Thomas of Sexual misconduct, thereby assuring Thomas's nomination. One might say that this act of Senator Biden's set the precedent for the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, after Kavanaugh had also been accused of sexual misconduct.Ver libro
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Momentous Words by Edward Rowland Sill. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 23rd, 2008.Ver libro
Gallegos represents the genre of independent writers that follow in the classic vein of story telling. "Bar Room Brawls" is an eclectic sampling from his latest collection of short stories and poems. The stories address the modern dilemmas of life, occasionally tapping into surreal metaphysical absurdities, yet always nested in a familiar and contemporary setting. Titles in this Collection: Then is Now, Alligator College, Bound, Happy Hour, Debris, Myth of Etan.Ver libro
Our senses revel in the incomparable majesty of the work of Mother Nature. The structure of the landscape, the multi-coloured mantle of trees and fauna, the myriad animals that wander and inhabit this glorious Earth. Nature conducts symphonies of sound as her world goes from day into the inky embrace of night. Our ears and eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways; the soft drizzle of rain from soft grey clouds, a wave caressing the shore and the ravenous colours of a departing sunset. Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere and for everyone. Indeed, whenever we look and listen to the vastness of Nature’s beauty she can placate our anger and soothe our pain, despite our knowledge of her destructive forces that create myriad tragedies. Still her vistas can energise us, feed our hearts and souls and prompt us to muse on the mysteries of life and death. 1 - Fifty Shades of Nature - An Introduction 2 - from Song Of Myself by Walt Whitman 3 - Nature's Hymn to the Deity by John Clare 4 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare 5 - Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth 6 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 7 - An April Afternoon by Alexander Anderson 8 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge 9 - In May by William Henry Davies 10 - The Darkling Thrush By Thomas Hardy 11 - The Thrush's Nest by John Clare 12 - To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley 13 - Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats 14 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford 15 - Nature, The Gentlest Mother by Emily Dickinson 16 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman 17 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive 18 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 19 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 20 - In Autumn Moonlight by Robert Seymour Bridges 21 - Daylight and Moonlight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 22 - At the Sunrise, 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 23 - After Sunset by William Allingham 24 - Across the Red Sky by Katherine Mansfield 25 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew 26 - Evening by Paul Laurence Dunbar 27 - I Have Heard the Sunset Song of the Birches by Stephen Crane 28 - Trees by Joyce Kilmer 29 - Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins 30 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 31 - Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins 32 - Nature's Lady by George Eliot 33 - Seashore by Tagore 34 - The Dark Blue Sea by Byron 35 - By the Sea by Christina Georgina Rossetti 36 - The Little Waves of Breffney by Eva Gore-Booth 37 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield 38 - The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W B Yeats 39 - The Cloud on the Mountain by Alama Iqbal 40 - Sonnet 33 - Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen by William Shakespeare 41 - Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying by A E Housman 42 - The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 43 - Ode Written on the First of December by Robert Southey 44 - Winters Naked Wood by Daniel Sheehan 45 - Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 46 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson 47 - from The Happy Farmer by Iolo Morganwg 48 - The Calf by Thomas Hardy 49 - To A Mouse by Robert Burns 50 - Snake by D H Lawrence 51 - The Tyger by William BlakeVer libro
Corrina, following in her seafaring father's footsteps, boards a cargo ship set for Singapore. Not everyone is pleased to have her aboard – and not everyone will make it to their final destination. Set in the claustrophobic cabins and corridors of a container ship at sea, Chloë Moss's play Corrina, Corrina is a story of power dynamics, superstitions and revenge, exploring what happens when we think no one is watching. This gripping thriller premiered at Liverpool Everyman in 2022, as a co-production between Headlong and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, directed by Holly Race Roughan.Ver libro
For most people, an afternoon trip to the dentist is the very definition of hell. When Debs routine dentist appointment turns out to be a meeting with Lucifer himself, she bargains her way back to living with a promise to secure a certain number of souls. Naturally, she begins her scavenger hunt in the corporate sector—the Disney Corporation to be exact! Sharp and refreshing, Keith Reddin’s Synergy is an uproarious and wry look at life on the corporate ladder. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Rosalind Chao as Jane Jeffrey Donovan as Roland Richard Kind as The Devil Alan Mandell as Sidney Ken Mars as Otto Joey Slotnick as Mark JoBeth Williams as Deb Directed by Gordon Hunt. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in February of 2002.Ver libro
