Publisher: AB Books
A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimisical short stories by Oscar Wilde. This collections includes the following tales: The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his Soul, and The Star-child. Readers of all ages will be delighted by these fanciful tales.
Librivox volunteers bring you fifteen different readings of Mother Night, by James Weldon Johnson. This weekly poetry project (for the week of 2/26/2006) was selected to celebrate Black History Month.(Summary by Annie Coleman)Show book
Spooky Poetry. Or things that go bump in the night! Poetry has a way of making even the most difficult of subjects or themes that bit easier to handle. And so it is with spooks and ghouls, ghosts and goblins. In this collection of poems Shakespeare, Kipling Rossetti, Stevenson are just some of the fine minds that take us on an adventure into a World of tense laughter and just around the corner sacredness. Our readers for this magical journey include Sandi Tosvig, Nigel Planer, Richard Mitchley & Ghizela RoweShow book
Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeare's earliest tragedy; it is believed to have been written in the early 1590s. It depicts a Roman general who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with his enemy Tamora, the Queen of the Goths. The play is by far Shakespeare's bloodiest work. It lost popularity during the Victorian era because of its gore, and it has only recently seen its fortunes revive. (Summary by Wikipedia)Cast: Aaron: David GoldfarbAemilius: Algy PugBassianus: John KoozCaptain: David LawrenceChiron: StrawhengeClown: sprideDemetrius: Arielle LipshawFirst Goth: Arielle LipshawLavinia: Elizabeth BarrLucius: John FrickerMarcus Andronicus: Matthew ReeceMartius: Algy PugMessenger: Elizabeth KlettMutius: Ric FNurse: rashadaPublius: David LawrenceQuintus: Amy GramourSaturninus: om123Second Goth: Arielle LipshawTamora: Elizabeth KlettThird Goth: Ric FTitus Andronicus: Michael IrskensTribunes: Elizabeth KlettYoung Lucius: Arielle LipshawNarrator: Lauren McCulloughAudio edited by: Arielle LipshawShow book
Throughout these poems, with their roaming sense of first-person, the speakers' minds are cavernous and echoic, primal and sophisticated, observant and raw, in and out of control of themselves. The effect is unpredictable and thrilling, at once a dark art and an illumination of unease and loss and wishfulness. The collection features disquieting songs of a mutable self alongside poignant elegies, interior journeys and subtle (and not so subtle) ripostes to the legacy of Trumpism - while elsewhere encounters with ghostly feet and tongues of fire consort with riffs on Baudelaire, Rilke and Laforgue. These poems twinkle with mischief and humour, making for a pungent and haunting read. Riordan - a poet whose strong, rippling influence is felt by all in his wake - affirms his reputation at the forefront of contemporary poetry.Show book
The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot in 1953 to "propagate the art of poetry". The Poetry Book Society Autumn 2018 Bulletin features a wide range of exciting new poetry publications, reviewed by expert poet selectors Sandeep Parmar, Vidyan Ravinthiran, George Szirtes, AB Jackson, Degna Stone and Anthony Anaxagorou. AUTUMN SELECTIONS July, Aug, Sept 2018 Choice: Ellen Hinsey, The Illegal Age (Arc) Recommendations: Kit Fan, As Slow as Possible (Arc) Andrew McMillan, playtime (Cape) Fiona Moore, The Distal Point (Happenstance) Kate Potts, Feral (Bloodaxe) Commendation: Lola Ridge, To the Many (Little Island Press) Wild Card: Zaffar Kunial, Us (Faber) Translation: Poems by Sextus Propertius, translated by Patrick Worsnip (Carcanet)Show book
The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar heralds a new season – Summer. Lengthening days, Sunshine days, Glorious days! In this month our classic poets flex their lexicons with verse that describes all manner of events. The weather may be warm or windy, showers, squalls and storms may momentarily darken skies with grey foreboding but Nature will soon be at work again on a palette of such bright and dazzling hues that the landscape is reborn again. 1 - Fifty Shades of June - An Introduction 2 - June by Horatio Alger Jr 3 - June by Francis Ledwidge 4 - Verses to Her Highness, the Duchess, June 3rd 1665 by John Henry Dryden 5 - Sonnet LXII Off Ostend, June 11th 1837 by Henry Alford 6 - A Match by Algernon Swinburne 7 - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns 8 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker 9 - A Man Young and Old - Summer and Spring by William Butler Yeats 10 - A June Night by Emma Lazarus 11 - A Night in June by Alfred Austin 12 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell 13 - Summer by Khalil Gibran 14 - Sonnet 13 - Summer Fruit by Rainer Maria Rilke 15 - A Summer Night by George William Russell 16 - June Night by Sara Teasdale 17 - A Night in June by James Edwin Campbell 18 - Dusk in June by Sara Teasdale 19 - All in June by William Henry Davies 20 - Bee by Emily Dickinson 21 - Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant 22 - June by James Whitcomb Riley 23 - Across the Red Sky by Katherine Mansfield 24 - The Thrush's Nest by John Clare 25 - June, A Tale by William Cowper 26 - Beachey Head by Charlotte Smith 27 - To June by George MacDonald 28 - There is A June When Corn is Cut by Emily Dickinson 29 - Wishes of an Elderly Man Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914 by Walter Alexander Raleigh 30 - Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson 31 - The Idlers Calender - Twelve Sonnets for the Months - June by Wilford Scawen Blunt 32 - The Human Seasons by John Keats 33 - Summer by Christina Rossetti 34 - Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins 35 - I Have Heard the Sunset Song of the Birches by Stephen Crane 36 - How Did the Rose by Hafiz 37 - Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins 38 - The Longest Day by William Wordsworth 39 - At the Sunrise, 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 40 - Sonnet LVI Written at York on the Day of the Coronation of Queen Victoria June 28th, 1838 by Henry Alford 41 - Hymn For St John's Eve the 29th June by John Henry Dryden 42 - Hymn For the Dedication of Memorial Hall at Cambridge June 23rd 1874 by Oliver Wendell Holmes 43 - To William Hayley Esq, June 29th 1793 by William Cowper 44 - June 14th by Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper 45 - On My Leaving London, June the 29th by Sarah Fyge-Egerton 46 - Pleasure's Past by John Clare 47 - A Gleam of Sunshine by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 48 - Sweet Empty Sky of June by Henry Vaughan 49 - June by William Cullen Bryant 50 - June at Woodruff by James Whitcomb Riley 51 - Angels of Sunderland, In Memoriam, June 16th 1893 by John HartleyShow book
