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  The Morning Light - never passes...

  Brian Lisus

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  Poetic, engaging and original, The Morning Light is a charming story of discovering the ancient and shared voice within each of us. 
  A violin maker’s story of music, craftsmanship and the seeking of serenity set against homelessness, twists of fate and a never ending desire to reproduce the sweet and soulful sound of a grandfather’s violin, fine-tuned to play with a resonance that connects the heart. 
  The chapters are interspersed with gorgeous pieces of music played on instruments created in Brian's studio in Ojai, California. https://www.themorninglight.org/ or https://www.lisusviolins.com/

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  Mother's Day Poetry Volume 2

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard...

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  This volume of poetry brings together poems throughout history with very special women.  The relationship with our Mother is one of the most powerful many of us will ever feel.  It rivals those with our children and partners in a way that both permeates and challenges how and on what terms we live our lives. A woman giving birth is not only bringing life into the World, she is doing so, usually, at great pain to herself.  The fact that this is transformed within minutes of birth to a deep, unconditional love is truly beautiful.  Whatever the future brings for Mother or child that bond will hold. The first attempts at language by babies is usually 'muh' or 'ma' - a universal sound for Mother.  In every race, culture and domain Mothers are seen as both a symbol and living emblem of love and nurture, of comfort and safety. As we grow older that relationship changes but on a fundamental level remains giving, unconditional and unequivocal.  As we become parents ourselves that circle of experience completes a full turn. For poets through time this unique and fulfilling relationship has enabled some of the greatest verse to be written by some of our most famed poets from Wordsworth to Whitman to Tennyson and many, many others.  We hope this experience of listening to these carefully chosen words will help you reflect and further enjoy the experience that a Mother's love has brought to your life. Their devotion to ours ensures ours to theirs. Whilst we celebrate Mother's Day once a year, every day is their day.

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  The Victorian Laureates - An...

  William Wordsworth

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  The office of Poet Laureate goes back many centuries – informally to the time of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1389 and followed thereafter by a number of ‘volunteer laureates’. It was formally assigned to Ben Jonson in 1617 and, as a Royal office by letters patent in 1670, to John Dryden. It is a rich, rewarding history that bursts with the words, themes and visions of many great poets that has bound poetry and poets to a Nations soul. 
   
  Victoria’s reign is mainly remembered as that which harnessed and amplified The Industrial Revolution with its myriad of inventions and the reinvention of society from agricultural to manufacturing. From there its thirst for markets and raw materials created a massive ‘Age of Empire’ that bestrode the globe yet, in its wake, left many in its homeland, destitute, impoverished and bereft of the advantages it trumpeted on a world stage.   
   
  In the Arts its artists flourished, exhibiting and publishing abroad working in new techniques and new media. In literature such noted talents as Dickens, Trollope, Thackeray, the Bronte sisters and many, many others were ambitious and acclaimed.  In Poetry we were spoilt for choice; the Brownings, Matthew Arnold, Coventry Patmore, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, an endless succession of wordsmiths.   
   
  Those Laureates appointed in Queen Victoria’s reign to represent the Nation are three in number and quite simply are staggering in both verse and talent: William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Alfred Austin. 
   
  01 - The Victorian Laureates - An Introduction 
  02 - William Wordsworth - An Introduction 
  03 - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth 
  04 - It Was An April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth 
  05 - Ode Composed on a May Morning by William Wordsworth 
  06 - Surprised By Joy Impatient As the Wind by William Wordsworth 
  07 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 
  08 - My Hearts Leaps Up by William Wordsworth 
  09 - Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known by William Wordsworth 
  10 - Written in London September1802 by William Wordsworth 
  11 - November1806 by William Wordsworth 
  12 - The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth 
  13 - The Foresaken by William Wordsworth 
  14 - The Longest Day by William Wordsworth 
  15 - Tinturn Abbey (Extracts) By William Wordsworth 
  16 - Alfred Lord Tennyson - An Introduction 
  17 - Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  18 - The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  19 - Maud by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  20 - The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  21 - The Oak by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  22 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  23 - Break Break Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  24 - Ring Out Wild Bells by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  25 - The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  26 - Sweet and Low by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  27 - Song - A Spirit Haunts the Year's Last Hours by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  28 - The Death of the Old Year by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  29 - Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  30 - In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  31 - Alfred Austin - An Introduction 
  32 - Agetha by Alfred Austin 
  33 - A Captive Throstle by Alfred Austin 
  34 - Though All the World by Alfred Austin 
  35 - A Night in June by Alfred Austin 
  36 - Spiritual Love by Alfred Austin 
  37 - In Praise of England by Alfred Austin 
  38 - Forgiveness by Alfred Austin 
  39 - A Farewell To Youth by Alfred Austin

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  Prometheus Bound (Browning...

  Aeschylus

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  Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, "Prometheus Bound" is a powerful statement on behalf of free humanity in the face of what often seem like the impersonal, implacable Forces that rule the Universe.  As one of the most compelling rebel manifestos ever composed, it has appealed not only to the expected host of scholars of Greek drama, but also to a fascinatingly free-spirited array of translators, especially since the early 19th century; Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry David Thoreau, and activist-poet Augusta Webster are among those who have tried their poetic and linguistic powers at rendering it into English.  Elizabeth Barrett Browning published not one but two completely different translations of it, the first in 1833 when she was twenty-seven years old and the second eighteen years later.  It is this second, far greater, translation presented here. - Summary by Expatriate

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  Howl and Other Poems

  Allen Ginsberg

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  Including: Europe, Europe America Howl Footnote to Howl Strange New Cottage In Back Of The Real Transcription Of Organ Music Sunflower Sutra A Supermarket In California Beat Poetry at Royal

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  Ladies Unleashed (NHB Modern Plays)

  Amanda Whittington

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  Pearl, Jan and Linda are enjoying a long-awaited break on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, when a surprise visitor turns up. They haven't seen Shelley for years, and their retreat becomes a reunion – and pretty soon, a riot.
  But a lot has changed since they were last together and, cut off from the mainland, tensions rise with the tide. As the sky darkens, the island grows restless with echoes of the past. Will the four still be friends when dawn breaks?
  Following the smash hits Ladies' Day and Ladies Down Under, Amanda Whittington's Ladies Unleashed is the third play in her Ladies Trilogy. A moving comedy about friendship, growing older and living for today, it was first performed at Hull Truck Theatre in September 2022, directed by Mark Babych.
  The Ladies are back, and amateur theatre companies – as well as their audiences – are sure to delight in their riotous exploits.
  'A joyous comedy... a story that serves every character with humanity... Whittington has created people who are rich with history and bursting with humour and passion. They're complex, multi-layered, and recognisable... glorious' - The Stage

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