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  The Lunch Punch Power Hour in...

  Caitríona Daly

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  'First and foremost, this is a meeting. Of which you now have the deciding vote. Which proposal will it be?'
  In the Irish offices of a corporate firm, three employees have their lunch hour to determine how best to spend their company's annual Corporate Social Responsibility budget.
  Behind a locked door and out of sight of management, the task escalates into an increasingly outlandish and hilarious debate, revealing secret passions and uncomfortable truths.
  Caitríona Daly's The Lunch Punch Power Hour in Conference Room 4 is a madcap, hilarious and insightful play about power structures, escapism and resistance. It premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2025, directed by Raymond Keane.

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  Great African American Literary...

  Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps,...

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  Hear rare recordings from five of the most-respected African American poets reading their own works: Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers; Arna Bontemps, Nocturne at Bethesda; Countee Cullen, Heritage; Gwendolyn Brooks, The Vacant Lot; and Sonia Sanchez, Black Magic. . 
  ©2009 Rick Sheridan (P)2009 Rick Sheridan

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― Christmas Eve...

  Thomas Hardy, William...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic. Christmas Eve - An Introduciton 
  2 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti 
  3 - The Oxen by Thomas Hardy 
  4 - A Visit from St Nicholas ('Twas the Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 
  5 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick 
  6 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  7 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell 
  8 - Minstrels.  A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth 
  9 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott 
  10 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale 
  11 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart 
  12 - The Meeting by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  13 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson

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  The Top 10 Poets – Playwrights -...

  William Shakespeare, W B Yeats,...

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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. 
  In this volume we explore those playwrights who within a few lines could turn and express their words as very distinguished verse and so become as known for poetry as were for their plays.

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  The Two Voices - An...

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

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  Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6th, 1809, in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the fourth of twelve children. 
  Most of Tennyson's early education was under the direction of his father, although he did spend four unhappy years at a nearby grammar school.  He also showed an early and burgeoning talent for writing; by the age of twelve he had written a 6,000-line epic poem.  
  In the 1820s, however, Tennyson’s father began to suffer frequent mental breakdowns exacerbated by his alcoholism. One brother had frequent violent quarrels with his father, a second would be confined to an insane asylum, and another was later an opium addict. 
  Tennyson left home in 1827 to join his brothers at Trinity College, Cambridge and with it escape from Somersby. At Trinity he was those who knew little of the problems that clouded his life. Although shy he was keen to make new friends; he was handsome, intelligent, humorous, and a gifted impersonator. 
  That same year, he and his brother Charles published Poems by Two Brothers. It attracted the attention of the “Apostles," a select undergraduate literary club led by Arthur Hallam. They provided friendship and confidence. Hallam and Tennyson became the best of friends. 
  The pair, in the summer of 1830, were involved in a ridiculous jaunt to take money and secret messages to revolutionaries plotting to overthrow the Spanish king. Tennyson's political enthusiasm was marginal compared to Hallam's, but he was glad to make his first trip abroad.  
  The landscape and atmosphere of the Pyrenees generated such wonderful poems as "Oenone," "The Lotus-Eaters;" inspired by a waterfall in the mountains; and "The Eagle;" invoked from the sight of the great hunters circling above them. The small village of Cauteretz and the surrounding valley became a location Tennyson would return to many times over the next sixty years. 
  In 1830, he published Poems, ‘Chiefly Lyrical’ and in 1832 a volume entitled ‘Poems’.  Tennyson, stung by the harshness of several reviews, would not publish again for nine years.  
  In the autumn of 1833, in what was meant as a gesture of gratitude and reconciliation to his father, Hallam accompanied him to the Continent. In Vienna Hallam died suddenly of apoplexy as a result of a congenital malformation of the brain.  
  Hallam’s death, together with that of his father and a myriad of anxieties, stem-ming mainly from the belief that his family were grimly attached to poverty, and fears that he might become a victim of epilepsy, madness, alcohol, and drugs, as others in his family had, or that he might die like Hallam, conspired to upset the delicate balance of Tennyson's emotions.  
  In 1836, he became engaged to Emily Sellwood. From their correspondence it is clear that she was very much in love with him. He seems to excessively worry about not having the financial means to marry.  He was also falling into trances, which he thought were connected with the epilepsy from which other family members suffered. To marry, he thought, would mean passing on the disease to any children he might father. He broke off the engagement. 
  During these years he used the dark feelings and events to write many of his finest works; "Ulysses," "Morte d'Arthur," "Tithonus," "Tiresias," and "Break, break, break."  
  In 1842 Tennyson’s Poems (in two volumes) was a tremendous critical and popular success.  
  In 1845 he was granted a government pension of £200 a year in recognition of his poetic achievements and his financial need.  Despite this financial support his doubts persisted.  
  Life for Tennyson was becoming increasingly productive and more lucrative.  By 1849 ‘The Princess’ had been published. He was now offered a large advance if he would assemble his elegies on Hallam into one complete poem.  
  Tennyson had now also resumed his relationship with Emily Sellwood and by the following year was talking again of marrying her. 
  In the Spring of 1850 the Poet Laureate William Wordsworth died and a new Laureate was

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  What The Deep Water Knows - Poems

  Miranda Cowley Heller

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  From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace, a Reese's Book Club Pick, comes a debut poetry collection that paints a moving portrait of a rich life from childhood to love to marriage to motherhood to divorce and beyond. 
   
  "Breathtaking . . . will change the way you see the world." —Daisy Goodwin, author of The American Heiress 
   
  If I could fly backward, I would. To the safety of branches, to the time when my heart still raced for you, twelve hundred beats a minute. 
   
  In poetry that is at once bold and lyrical, affecting and devastatingly frank, Miranda Cowley Heller takes us through childhood, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. Suffused with the natural world and the landscape of Cape Cod, where many of the poems are set, What the Deep Water Knows contemplates love in all the seasons.

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