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  Dreaming and Drowning

  Kwame Owusu

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  'The supernatural is possible and the impossible is natural and life teeters on the edge of the unreal'
  Malachi's been looking forward to a fresh start at uni for months. He's settling in, he's got a stack of books to read and he's met someone new – Kojo, a musician with a megawatt smile, who's basically perfect.
  But something doesn't feel right. He keeps having the same nightmare – sinking, crushed by the weight of the ocean – and it's getting worse… A beast grows in the water, hungry, relentless, hunting him but always just out of sight. As the boundaries between nightmare and reality fracture, Malachi must fight harder than ever to stay afloat.
  Kwame Owusu's play Dreaming and Drowning is an intimate and visceral deep-dive into the boundless mind of a young Black queer man wrestling with anxiety.
  It won the Mustapha Matura Award, was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award, and was one of the winning plays in the RSC's 37 Plays competition. It was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in November 2023, directed by the playwright, performed by Tienne Simon, and produced by WoLab.

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  The Poetry of Elinor Wylie - One...

  Elinor Wylie

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  Elinor Morton Hoyt was born on 7th September, 1885 in Somerville, New Jersey and from age 12 grew up in Washington D C where her father served as assistant attorney general and later solicitor general.  Her early education together with her renowned beauty suggests she was being trained for life as a debutante but her life quickly found another route as she became absorbed in the world of books. 
   
  An early marriage following her graduation ended when, after being pursued by Horace Wylie, 17 years her senior and a married Washington lawyer with three children, she eloped to England with him.  His wife would not divorce him and the subsequent scandal was widely publicised further fueled by the suicide in 1912 of her abandoned husband. 
   
  With Wylie's encouragement she published in 1912, ‘Incidental Number’, assembled from poems of the previous decade. 
   
  Despite a child from her first marriage Elinor subsequently endured miscarriages, a stillbirth and a premature child who lived for only one week.  When Wylie’s deserted wife agreed to a divorce, the couple returned to the United States and married but they were already drawing apart. 
   
  In 1921, Elinor’s ‘Nets to Catch the Wind’, was published. It was an immediate success and a prize-winner.  In New York’s literary circles she found her next husband who acted as her agent – the poer William Rose Benét, brother of the famed Stephen. They married in 1923 and that same year ‘Black Armor’, was published. The New York Times said "There is not a misplaced word or cadence in it."  She also published her first of four novels, ‘Jennifer Lom’, to excellent reviews. 
   
  She worked for a time as the poetry editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of Literary Guild, and a contributing editor of The New Republic.  Her third book of poetry, ‘Trivial Breath’ arrived in 1928 as did the failure of her marriage with Benét.  
   
  She moved again to England and fell in love with a friend’s husband, to whom she wrote, and later published a series of 19 sonnets; ‘Angels and Earthly Creatures’. 
   
  Elinor Wylie suffered high blood pressure all her adult life and this eventually led to her death at Benet’s New York apartment on 16th December, 1928 where she suffered a stroke. She was 43. 
   
  1 - The Poetry of Elinor Wylie - An Introduction 
  2 - Wild Peaches by Elinor Wylie 
  3 - Escape by Elinor Wylie 
  4 - Ophelia by Elinor Wylie 
  5 - The Puritan's Ballad by Elinor Wylie 
  6 - Velvet Shoes by Elinor Wylie 
  7 - Parting Gift by Elinor Wylie 
  8 - Little Elegy by Elinor Wylie 
  9 - Love Song by Elinor Wylie 
  10 - Quarrel by Elinor Wylie 
  11 - Valentine by Elinor Wylie 
  12 - Les Lauriers Sont Coupee by Elinor Wylie 
  13 - Sunset on the Spire by Elinor Wylie 
  14 - Phases of the Moon by Elinor Wylie 
  15 - Full Moon by Elinor Wylie 
  16 - Nadir by Elinor Wylie 
  17 - Address to My Soul by Elinor Wylie 
  18 - The Child on the Curbstone by Elinor Wylie 
  19 - The Eagle and the Mole by Elinor Wylie 
  20 - The Falcon by Elinor Wylie 
  21 - A Proud Lady by Elinor Wylie 
  22 - Preference by Elinor Wylie 
  23 - Nancy by Elinor Wylie 
  24 - The Lion and the Lamb by Elinor Wylie 
  25 - Beauty by Elinor Wylie 
  26 - The Tortoise in Eternity by Elinor Wylie 
  27 - The Fairy Goldsmith by Elinor Wylie 
  28 - Innocent Landscape by Elinor Wylie 
  29 - A Madman's Song by Elinor Wylie 
  30 - Poor Earth by Elinor Wylie 
  31 - The Church Bell by Elinor Wylie 
  32 - Cold Blooded Creatures by Elinor Wylie 
  33 - Let No Charitable Hope by Elinor Wylie 
  34 - Little Joke by  Elinor Wylie 
  35 - Pretty Words by Elinor Wylie 
  36 - Incantation by Elinor Wylie 
  37 - Fire and Sle

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  Do Jewish Lives Matter? - A Play

  Beverly Taylor

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  The play, “Do Jewish Lives Matter” arose out of the Crown Heights Riot in Brooklyn, a Pogrom where a Black boy was accidentally killed by a Hasidic driver with devastating results. James Baldwin, the famous Negro writer, as far back as 1948 wrote, “Georgia has the Negro as a target of hatred. Harlem has the Jew.” 
   In 1973 Rabbi Kahane wrote, “In no way should we refuse to see the danger to Jews that comes from Black hatred. It is of epidemic proportions.” And again in 1977, when addressing an audience, he said, “In Crown Heights, where poor Jews live side by side with Blacks and are regularly robbed, mugged, terrorized, a Black explosion against them is inevitable.”

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  Conjure Volume 2 - Dark Poetry

  Rena Aliston

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  Conjure Volume 2 is a haunting exploration of the soul’s deepest wounds where death and spirituality intertwine. Each poem delves into the complex nature of healing and spirituality. This second book in the Conjure series illuminates the possibility of rebirth through ancestral connection and urges readers to grasp onto the spark of healing found within.

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  Pessimism is for Lightweights -...

  Salena Godden

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  One of the very first publications to come off the Rough Trade Books press, Pessimism is for Lightweights began life as thirteen pieces of courage and resistance from the pen of the one and only Salena Godden. These are poems written for the Women's March, poems that salute peaceful protest, poems on sexism and racism, class discrimination, poverty and homelessness, immigration and identity. This new edition expands the collection to full book length and shows Godden at her inimitable best—deft technique and powerful emotional heft, with additional new poems reflecting on our fast- changing world with her trademark humour and resilience. This is a book full of light, courage and most of all hope..

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Ambrose Bierce, Ella Wheeler...

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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 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Art - An Introduction 
  2 - An Art Critic by Ambrose Bierce 
  3 - Art and Heart by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  4 - Colors by Stephen Vincent Benet 
  5 - Jade by Edith Wharton 
  6 - My Last Duchess by Robert Browning 
  7 - On Mr Alcock of Bristol, an Excellent Miniature Painter by Thomas Chatterton 
  8 - On Seeing the Elgin Marbles For the First Time by John Keats 
  9 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  10 - Rome - Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy 
  11 - Sonnet 13 -  Summer Fruit by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  12 - Written Under a Portrait of Keats by John Boyle O'Reily 
  13 - Portrait d'une Femme by Ezra Pound

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