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  warm blooded things

  Shaun Hill

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  Shaun Hill's debut poetry collection,warm blooded things is a radical and intimate encounter with boyhood, sexuality, and violence, love, desire and solitude. Wandering the nocturnal city streets, through random encounters, co-opting space and capturing conversations in a multitude of voices, this collection evokes alienation whilst longing for tenderness.
  Hill's agile poems are alive to fear, loss and danger. The poems also explore a uniquely queer archive of time and place, the legacy of AIDS, and draw strength from giving voice to unheard histories. Seeking sanctuary and alternatives to a capitalist reality, these precise poems gesture towards hope, survival and the necessity to be responsible for one another.
  "Shaun Hill is one of my favourite performers, his poems charged with vulnerability and raw intimacy. Now warm blooded things offers us this same tender gift."– Liz Berry

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  North American Stadiums

  Grady Chambers

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  Winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, North American Stadiums is an assured debut collection about grace—the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive. 
  “You were supposed to find God here / the signs said.” In these poems, hinterlands demand our close attention; overlooked places of industry become sites for pilgrimage; and history large and small—of a city, of a family, of a shirt—is unearthed. Here is a factory emptying for the day, a snowy road just past border patrol, a baseball game at dusk. Mile signs point us toward Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Salt Lake City, Chicago. And god is not the God expected, but the still moment amid movement: a field “lit like the heart / of the night,” black stars stitched to the yellow sweatshirts of men in a crowd. 
  A map “bleached / pale by time and weather,” North American Stadiums is a collection at once resolutely unsentimental yet deeply tender, illuminating the historical forces that shape the places we inhabit and how those places, in turn, shape us.

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  The Poetry of Trains - A wide...

  Damon Runyon, Amy Lowell,...

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  The mythology of the Train, the Railroad, those two shiny tracks running off into the far distance is a powerful symbol of the industrial age. 
   
  The train was the first mass transit system to network the land and to carry people and materials of every class and of every shape.  A sort of democracy with the only requirement of use being the price of a ticket. 
   
  Poets who grew up with this pulsating leviathan of industry were quick to see its merits for their own lines and verse.   
   
  Across these poems comes both an individual eye across a wide range of feelings, thoughts and ideas as well as, occasionally, the trainspotter’s delight for form and detail from poets such as Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas, Edna St Vincent Millay, Damon Runyon and a host of others. 
   
  1 - The Poetry of Trains - An Introduction 
  2 - A Song of the Rails by Damon Runyon 
  3 - Song of a Train by John Davidson 
  4 - Song of the Rail by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  5 - Rhyme of the Rail by John Godfrey Saxe 
  6 - Up the Line by Will Carleton 
  7 - From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  8 - An Incident in a Railroad Car by Jamers Russell Lowell 
  9 - Railway Times by Martin Faraquar Tupper 
  10 - On the Engine by Night by Alexander Anderson 
  11 - The Night Journey by Rupert Brooke 
  12 - Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  13 - Train Ride by Federico Garcia Lorca 
  14 - The Train by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 
  15 - Homeward Ho! by Ada A Mosher 
  16 - The Rail Road by James Very 
  17 - The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson 
  18 - In the Train by James Thomson 
  19 - The Division Superintendent by Ambrose Bierce 
  20 - The Word of an Engineer by James Weldon Johnson 
  21 - The Train Among the Hills by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 
  22 - The Gospel Train. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 1873 
  23 - The Jaffa and Jerusalem Railway by Eugene Field 
  24 - In the Train and At Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  25 - The Ledbury Train by Radclyffe Hall 
  26 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas 
  27 - The Ancient Arteries of America by Daniel Sheehan 
  28 - Subway Wind by Claude McKay 
  29 - In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound 
  30 - Railway Rhymes by C L Graves 
  31 - What's the Railroad to Me by Henry David Thoreau 
  32 - The Railway Station by Archibald Lampman 
  33 - Thompson's Lunch Room, Grand Central Station by Amy Lowell 
  34 - Faintheart in a Railway Train by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - Song O' the Lost Trains by Damon Runyon 
  36 - The Phantom Train by Tom Hood 
  37 - One of the Unfair Sex by Ambrose Bierce 
  38 - September 1st. 1802 by William Wordsworth 
  39 - Autumn in the Garden by Fredegond Shove 
  40 - A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird 
  41 - In the Train by Sara Teasdale 
  42 - To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman 
  43 - On the Departure Platform by Thomas Hardy 
  44 - Guild Signal by Bret Harte 
  45 - The Send Off by Wilfred Owen

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  Postmodern Gypsy

  Jordan Poole

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  When millennial artist, Jordan Poole, realized that there would be no retirement and travel in his future there was only one thing to do.   Live life before it was too late.   He decided to take a risk.   He took off on a year of adventure on the open road.   The way he saw it, instead of being broke working a job that was drab and pointless he could rather be dead broke traveling.   This is the story of adventure on the open road as one artist goes through four campers named Priscilla, Queen of Backroads.  Travel with him and Priscilla and find hope paved with the open road.

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  The Ice Palace - Author of the...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died.  Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained. 
   
  His intelligence and talent was recognised from an early age, with his first story, about a detective being published in the school magazine when he was just 13.   
   
  In 1913 he enrolled at Princeton but his devotion to his own literary pursuits resulted in him leaving and, rather bizarrely, joining the Army.  In 1918, stationed at Fort Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama he met and became infatuated and then inseparable from Zelda Sayre.  Initially though she refused to marry him but with the success of ‘This Side of Paradise’, the fame and the flow of money enabled them both to begin a gilded life.  For them this was The Jazz Age.  For Fitzgerald he was already an alcoholic. 
   
  He continued to write with great mastery and the titles of his novels and many of his 164 short stories are household names.  The Great Gatsby, often cited as The Great American Novel was published to mixed reviews.  As America moved from the Great Depression to the slaughter of the Second World War his works and himself were seen as far too entwined with the decadent twenties. The world had moved on and he hadn’t.   
   
  Further tragedy was never far from his life. Zelda after years of erratic and now intolerable behaviour was committed to an institution in 1936.  His own sales began to decline and he became a hack for hire in Hollywood, dependent on increasing amounts of booze and the weekly pay check.  His drunken state had often resulted in arrest or hospitalisation, further imperiling his talents.   Despite his contribution to many MGM films he received only one credit. 
   
  The end came all too soon for one of America’s greatest ever writers.  On 21st December 1940, at only 44 years of age in Hollywood, F Scott Fitzgerald succumbed to a heart attack. 
   
  One of Fitzgerald’s short story gems is ‘The Ice Palace’. A Southern girl wants ‘to live where things happen on a grand scale’.  She is engaged to a Yankee but on their visit to The Ice Palace attraction life reveals a very different destiny for her.

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  The Unscripted Heart - From...

  Anonymous

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  The Unscripted Heart: From Tradition to Transformation is an unfiltered journey of transformation, resilience, and self-discovery. Through stories of love, loss, faith, fatherhood, and grief, Kelly Willis reveals what happens when you stop living by society’s script and start embracing authenticity. From conservative beginnings and three marriages to spiritual awakenings, polyamory, and the devastating loss of his son, this memoir invites listeners into an honest exploration of freedom, presence, and love without walls. Both raw and hopeful, it’s a story for anyone who’s ever questioned the rules, longed for something more, or searched for a life lived fully in the present moment

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