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  The Canterbury Tales

  Geoffrey Chaucer

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  What if a simple pilgrimage became the setting for one of the greatest storytelling gatherings in literary history? 🏰
  
  In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer brings together a vibrant cast of pilgrims—knights, scholars, merchants, cooks, nobles, and rogues—each offering a tale that reveals their hopes, flaws, humor, and humanity. Blending drama, romance, comedy, morality, and satire, this masterpiece paints a vivid portrait of medieval life and the timeless complexities of human nature.
  
  This beautifully formatted edition invites readers to experience:
  
  A lively collection of tales told by unforgettable characters
  
  Themes of love, adventure, justice, betrayal, and redemption
  
  A brilliant blend of humor, wit, and sharp social commentary
  
  Chaucer's poetic genius, brought to life in accessible language
  
  A rich depiction of medieval society's diversity, depth, and charm
  
  From the noble Knight's tale of honor and romance to the bawdy humor of the Miller and the sharp cleverness of the Wife of Bath, Chaucer's storytelling remains as fresh, engaging, and insightful today as it was in the 14th century.
  
  Whether you're exploring this classic for study or pleasure, this edition offers a clear, immersive reading experience that captures the spirit and brilliance of Chaucer's work.
  
  Join one of literature's most legendary journeys—add this timeless masterpiece to your library today and discover the tales that shaped centuries of storytelling.

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  Dear Reader

  Ben Shafran

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  An impressive, moving, and assured debut collection of poems about the richness of nature, human emotion, and the human condition in general. Innovative and fresh, at times playful at times serious always with a keen eye for the tell-tale detail. Rooted in personal experience, the reader is exposed to and invited to share in the poet's intimate emotional journey, joy, elation, wonder and sometimes fragile memories as well as his iconoclastic take on common Western myths.
  Beginning with a welcoming message to the reader in the opening poem 'Dear Reader' that any personal interpretation is as valid as the author's to the challenge of the last poem of the collection 'My Ode to Joy' to find the personal 'addition to the sum of creation,' this collection is sure to delight the reader.

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - World War I -...

  Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, E W...

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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. 
   
  01 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - World War I - An Introduction 
  02 - The Volunteer by Herbert Asquith 
  03 - The Dying Patriot by James Elroy Flecker 
  04 - 1914 by Rupert Brooke 
  05 - Strange Hells by Ivor Gurney 
  06 - Antwerp by Ford Maddox Ford 
  07 - Men of Verdun by Lawrence Binyon 
  08 - Wooden Crosses by E W Hornung 
  09 - Hardness of Heart by Edward Shillito 
  10 - In War by Isaac Rosenberg 
  11 - Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen 
  12 - The Illusion of War by Richard Le Gallienne 
  13 - A Soldier's Grave by Francis Ledwidge

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  The Poetry of Alexander Pope -...

  Alexander Pope

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  Alexander Pope was born on May 21st, 1688 into a Catholic family in London.  
  His education was affected by the then recent Test Acts, which upheld the status of the Church of England and banned Catholics from teaching.  In effect this meant his formal education was over by the age of 12 but Pope was to immerse himself in classical literature and languages and too, in effect, educate himself.   
  From this age too he also suffered from numerous health problems including Pott’s disease, a type of tuberculosis, which resulted in a stunted, deformed body.  Only to grow to a height of 4’ 6”, with a severe hunchback and complicated further by respiratory difficulties, high fevers, inflamed eyes and abdominal pain all of which served to further isolate him, initially, from society. 
  However his talent was evident to all. Best known for his satirical verse, his translations of Homer and the use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare. 
  With the publication of Pastorals in 1709 followed by An Essay on Criticism in 1711 and his most famous work The Rape of the Lock in 1712, Pope became not only famous but wealthy. 
  His translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey further enhanced both reputation and purse.  His engagement to produce an opulent new edition of Shakespeare met with a mixed reception. Pope attempted to "regularise" Shakespeare's metre and rewrote some of his verse and cut 1500 lines, that Pope considered to be beneath the Bard’s standard, to mere footnotes. 
  Alexander Pope died on May 30th, 1744 at his villa at Twickenham (where he created his famous grotto and gardens) and was buried in the nave of the nearby Church of England Church - St Mary the Virgin. 
  Over the years and centuries since his death Pope’s work has been in and out of favour but with this distance he is now truly recognised as one of England’s greatest poets. 
   This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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  The Odyssey - Books 9 & 10

  Homer

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  From the glittering halls of the Phaeacians to the darkest enchanted forests, Odysseus recounts his most iconic trials in Books 9 and 10 of Homer’s Odyssey. In Samuel Butler’s lucid, fast-moving prose, performed with gripping clarity by William Johnston, hear the harrowing clash with Polyphemus the Cyclops and the audacious “Nobody” ruse; the dreamy peril of the Lotus-Eaters; Aeolus’s fateful gift of the winds and the crew’s disastrous curiosity; the cannibal Laestrygonians who shatter the fleet; and the sorceress Circe, whose spellbound isle turns men to swine—until Hermes’s moly and Odysseus’s iron will break the curse.  
   
  This vivid, self-contained segment brims with momentum, danger, wit, and heart—leadership tested, loyalty strained, and homecoming deferred. Johnston’s narration captures roaring seas, monstrous fury, and the intimate ache of loss, while Butler’s translation delivers the tale with modern immediacy and classical grandeur. Whether you’re discovering Homer for the first time or revisiting a cornerstone of world literature, this performance offers an unforgettable journey through cunning, temptation, and resilience—setting the stage for the voyage to the underworld to come.

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  The Lunch Punch Power Hour in...

  Caitríona Daly

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  'First and foremost, this is a meeting. Of which you now have the deciding vote. Which proposal will it be?'
  In the Irish offices of a corporate firm, three employees have their lunch hour to determine how best to spend their company's annual Corporate Social Responsibility budget.
  Behind a locked door and out of sight of management, the task escalates into an increasingly outlandish and hilarious debate, revealing secret passions and uncomfortable truths.
  Caitríona Daly's The Lunch Punch Power Hour in Conference Room 4 is a madcap, hilarious and insightful play about power structures, escapism and resistance. It premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2025, directed by Raymond Keane.

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