Maison d'édition: Rough Trade Books
In Odeum Spotlights, Olly Todd's poems explore the reconstructed past and reimagined present, and the roles they play in the arenas of memory, place and friendship.
This is a story of a successful businessman, Bruce McEver, the founder of Berkshire Capital and a global pioneer of investment banking, who is devastated by the sudden and unexpected death of his wife of thirty years, a beautiful and talented opera singer who shared that life with him and gave it meaning. The day following her death, Christmas morning, in a barn yard on the farm where he and his wife lived together, Bruce experiences a hierophany-a physical manifestation of the holy and sacred. Unbelieving its veracity, the revealing of his vision to his minister sets Bruce off on a journey spanning the world, Harvard Divinity School, Joseph Campbell lectures, summer poetry workshops, professorships, new loves and loves lost, health crises and new business.Many Paths is heartfelt, honest, unflinching, and charged on every page with humor and grace. It takes an under represented view of traditional autobiography, charting a full and unique life that weaves entrepreneurial, spiritual, intellectual, philanthropic and artistic paths together. In this way, Many Paths follows in the tradition of Augustine's Confessions, J.R. Moehringer's The Tender Bar, and Jack Welch's Jack: Straight from the Gut.Voir livre
When the young and naive D'Artagnan sets out on his quest to become a King's musketeer, he immediately encounters the dangerous femme fatale, Milady de Winter. After discovering that the musketeers have been disbanded, he makes it his mission to get them reinstated. But will his feud with Milady thwart him? And who the heck is she? This riotous adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel by John Nicholson (Hound of the Baskervilles, Peepolykus was originally performed by physical-comedy theatre company Le Navet Bete on a UK tour in 2019, with four actors playing over thirty characters. It was co-produced by Le Navet Bete and Exeter Northcott Theatre. The Three Musketeers will suit any theatre company or drama group looking for a funny, high-energy adaptation of a universally loved story, which is suitable for audiences of all ages. Swashbuckling and rollicking adventure guaranteed – convincing French accents, not so much.Voir livre
Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer".Moore is often considered Ireland's National Bard and is to Ireland what Robert Burns is to Scotland. (Wikipedia )Voir livre
Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired. - Summary by WikipediaVoir livre
A fiercely funny play about what it's like to be a young woman living, working, drinking, loving and having sex in the 21st century. Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright It's Bella's 29th birthday. Friends and former lovers meet for a drink to celebrate. But as the Bloody Marys flow, the bar soon becomes a battlefield. 'Excellent' - Time Out, Critics' Choice 'razor-sharp' - Observer 'Terrific. A smart and bracing battle-of-the-sexes comedy. As accomplished and penetrating as Patrick Marber's Closer' - Sunday Express 'Electric. This sharp, witty play about sex, success and self-knowledge is a must-see' - Stage 'a writing debut of exhilarating punch and real comic perspicacity' - IndependentVoir livre
‘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 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Fathers - An Introduction 2 - Anecdote for Fathers by William Wordsworth 3 - Any Father to Any Son by F B Money-Coutts 4 - Come Home Father by Henry Clay Work 5 - To Her Father with Some Verses by Anne Bradstreet 6 - Our Fathers Also by Rudyard Kipling 7 - Portrait of My Father as a Young Man by Rainer Maria Rilke 8 - The Sins of the Fathers by Stephen Crane 9 - To My Father on His Birthday by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 10 - The Father by Katharine Tynan 11 - Sonnet 37 - As a Decrepit Father Takes Delight by William Shakespeare 12 - A Poet's Father by Ambrose Bierce 13 - Epitaph on My Ever Honoured Father by Robert BurnsVoir livre
