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  Katherine Mansfield - Chapter &...

  Katherine Mansfield

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - Katherine Mansfield - An Introduction 
  2 - Bliss by Katharine Mansfield 
  3 - Sorrowing Love by Katherine Mansfield 
  4 - Loneliness by Katherine Mansfield 
  5 - A Little Boy's Dream by Katherine Mansfield 
  6 - Fairy Tale by Katherine Mansfield 
  7 - The Candle by Katherine Mansfield 
  8 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child by Katherine Mansfield 
  9 - The Wounded Bird by Katherine Mansfield 
  10 - Covering Wings by Katherine Mansfield 
  11 - In the Rangitaki Valley by Katherine Mansfield 
  12 - The Town Between the Hills by Katherine Mansfield 
  13 - Deaf House Agent by Katherine Mansfield 
  14 - Camomile Tea by Katherine Mansfield 
  15 - The Arabian Shawl by Katherine Mansfield 
  16 - The Quarrel by Katherine Mansfield 
  17 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

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  Fifty Shades of Winter - 50 of...

  William Shakespeare, Henry...

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  Nature prepares her final work. She begins to strip her canvas of almost everything leaving only little pockets of colour, leaves and berry to cluster on the bleak structure of the land 
   
  Her command of colour rises to another understanding.  The shades of grey, the monochrome from white to black begin to solidify. Falling temperatures hold and freeze everything.  The days shorten. The nights lengthen, throwing moon and starlight across the glistening canvas. She dazzles with storm and blizzard. Rest for her will not be easy. 
   
  Our poets, who have seen this often, know it’s meaning.  Their verse evocatively relays their thoughts, their musings, their understanding of all that surrounds the closing of nature’s year. 
   
  In fifty poems we take you on their inspiring journey, reflecting on the miracle of winter. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of Winter - An Introduction 
  02 - Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare 
  03 - Some Too Fragile For Winter Winds by Emily Dickinson 
  04 - Come Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  05 - Winter by Khalil Gibran 
  06 - I Who All The Winter Through by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  07 - Winter Calls by Daniel Sheehan 
  08 - A Wife in London (December 1899) by Thomas Hardy 
  09 - The December Rose by Edith Nesbit 
  10 - Sicily December 1908 by Henry Van Dyke 
  11 - Sweetheart Winter by Vachel Lindsay 
  12 - Ode Written on the First of December by Robert Southey 
  13 - A Calender of Sonnets - December by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  14 - The Idlers Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For the Months - December by Wilfred Scawen Blunt 
  15 - The Winters Are So Short by Emily Dickinson 
  16 - December Matins by Alfred Austin 
  17 - Sonnet II - When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow by William Shakespeare 
  18 - In Drear Nighted December by John Keats 
  19 - December by John Bannister Tabb 
  20 - Winters Naked Wood by Daniel Sheehan 
  21 - A December Day by Robert Fuller Murray 
  22 - Snow-Bound (The Sun That Brief December Day) by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  23 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens 
  24 - Snow Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  25 - January 1st 1828 by Nathaniel Parker Willis 
  26 - Written During An Aurora Borealis January 7th 1831 by Henry Alford 
  27 - Lines on Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  28 - February by Edith Nesbit 
  29 - Pray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
  30 - February by Louisa Sarah Bevington 
  31 - February 3rd 1830 by Henry Alford 
  32 - In Febuary by Alice Meynell 
  33 - A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird 
  34 - In the Bleak Mid-Winter by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  35 - The Farm Woman's Winter by Thomas Hardy 
  36 - Winter Stores by Charlotte Bronte 
  37 - Afternoon in Febuary by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  38 - February Twilight by Sara Teasdale 
  39 - To A Locomotive In Winter by Walt Whitman 
  40 - February Morning by Laurence Binyon 
  41 - A Valentines Song by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  42 - To Susanna, February 1824 by Eliza Acton 
  43 - Winter Heavens by George Meredith 
  44 - Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  45 - February by Dollie Radford 
  46 - Winter - My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  47 - Winter Evening Hymn To My Fire by James Russell Lowell 
  48 - February by Arthur Christopher Benson 
  49 - Winter Violets by Alfred Austin 
  50 - Winter by Anne Bradstreet 
  51 - How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been (Sonnet 97) by William Shakespeare

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  Camera Woman

  RM Vaughan

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  There are no lost women, only women who've forgotten their scripts.' RM Vaughan's play about Hollywood director Dorothy Arzner comes off the stage and onto the page in this handsome edition from Coach House Books. An insightful look at the gender politics behind the cameras and studios of the golden age of cinema.

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  Catastrophic Molting

  Amy Shimshon-Santo

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  CATASTROPHIC MOLTING (FlowerSong Press) Amy Shimshon-Santo uses the tools of language to remind readers there is power in repudiation, comfort in collective mourning, and possibility in reimagining. The book title is inspired by the molting ritual of sea elephants (Mirounga Angustirostris) along the California coast. The mirounga rest together on the shore as social protection from violence when they are the most vulnerable. Only through these periods of dramatic change can they grow sleek new coats. The book’s journey begins with “Contagion,” revealing a world split in half like a calabash by a virus. “Beating, trembling,” a woman pleads for mercy while the poems confront the liminality of profound change. “A new cycle had begun / I would never be the same again.” The second section, Sangue, gives voice to mourning and rage. “when you murder the future of music / you are conjuring extinction.” Dysfunction on planet Earth reverberates from the street into the expansive galaxy. Refusing to normalize violence, the poet gathers war inside her own body to detonate it, then blows “tsunami-wind / to rattle clear the desks.” With the verve of Oya, the goddess of ancestral and radical change, the book claims ground for empathy and inter-being. The collection asks readers to imagine: “what if we were a part of a whole / that loved us without ceasing?” Catastrophic Molting breaks from inertia and seeks new ground. Our “foremothers greet the unborn” and are “betrothed to a story that doesn’t wish us dead.” Shimshon-Santo suggests that “stepping off might actually be, stepping in / turning away might actually be, turning toward.”

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  When First I Came Here

  Edward Thomas

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of When First I Came Here by Edward Thomas. This was the weekly poetry project for July 19th, 2009.

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  London Road (NHB Modern Plays)

  Alecky Blythe

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  A revolutionary musical, based on the 2006 Ipswich murders, with a book by acclaimed verbatim playwright Alecky Blythe. Named Best Musical at the 2011 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards.
  In late 2006 the everyday life of the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
  The residents of London Road had struggled for years with the soliciting and kerb-crawling that they frequently encountered. As Steve Wright, the occupant of No. 79, was arrested, charged and then convicted of the murders, the immediate community grappled with the media frenzy and what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.
  Playwright Alecky Blythe recorded extensive interviews with the people of Ipswich. Composer Adam Cork's score is a response to the melodic and rhythmic speech patterns captured on those recordings. London Road is an experimental and challenging work which reveals the ways in which even the darkest experiences can engender a greater sense of our mutual dependence.
  London Road premiered at the Cottesloe, National Theatre, London, in April 2011.
  'an astonishing document about a beleaguered yet resilient community... a startling, magically original success' Evening Standard
  'the most genuinely interesting and innovative new musical I've seen for ages' Michael Coveney, WhatsOnStage

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