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  Pygmalion

  George Bernard Shaw

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  Relive this hilarious drama retold in audiobook format, complete with the witty narrative and directions of Shaw's original playscript. 
  Henry Higgins, a phonetician, agrees to coach and groom Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl and transform her into a socially acceptable person, no less than a duchess - in just six months! 
  Timeless themes of equality and social class are explored in a lighthearted, comical manner, raising many questions such as: 
  Can Eliza "I'm a good girl I am!" live up to their expectations? 
  What will become of her afterwards? 
  What happens when her Father, an "undeserving" dustman comes into money and becomes a "victim of the middle class"? 
  What is middle class morality? 
  Listeners are invited to answer these questions for themselves - or just sit back and be entertained by Shaw's comic wit in all it's glory. 
   

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  The City Our City - Poems

  Wayne Miller

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  “[A] wide-ranging, fascinating series of poems that [has] the city as character at its center, the city as a collective soul, the city as idea.” —Sycamore Review 
   
  A William Carlos Williams Award Finalist 
   
  A Kansas City Star Top Book of the Year 
   
  A Library Journal Top Winter Poetry Pick 
   
  A series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The City, Our City showcase the voice of a young poet striking out, dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on “the City.” It is an unnamed, crowded place where the human questions and observations found in almost any city—past, present, and future—ring out with urgency. These poems—in turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyful—give hum to our modern experience, to those caught up in the City’s immensity, and announce the arrival of a major new contemporary poet.

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  Matthew Arnold The Poetry

  Matthew Arnold

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  Matthew Arnold, The Poetry. Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage.  Matthew Arnold is rightly placed amongst the other greats of Victorian Poetry; Browning and  Tennyson.   The son of the founder of Rugby School he grew up to become a poet via a career as a school inspector. His own words best represent how he came to be so well regarded: “My poems represent, on the whole, the main movement of mind of the last quarter of a century, and thus they will probably have their day as people become conscious to themselves of what that movement of mind is”.  Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry.  Many samples are at our youtube channel   http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee   The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.  Among the readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.  Index Of Poems; The Last Word; The Austerity Of Poetry (A Sonnet); Bacchanalia; Or, The New Age; The Buried Life; A Caution To Poets; Consolation; Continued; Despondency; Calais Sands; Dover Beach; The Sea of Faith; The Divinity (A Sonnet); Early Death And Fame; East London (A Sonnet); Epilogue; Faded Leaves; The Future; Growing Old; Haworth Churchyard; Human Life; Immortality; A Memory Picture; A Modern Sappho; Mortality; A Nameless Epitaph; Religious Isolation; The Youth Of Man; Youth And Calm; West London (A Sonnet); A Wish; A Southern Night; Requiescat; Tristram Ans Iseult.

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  Magyarazni

  Helen Hajnoczky

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  The word "magyarázni" (pronounced MUG-yar-az-knee) means "to explain" in Hungarian, but translates literally as "make it Hungarian." This faux-Hungarian language primer, written in direct address, invites readers to experience what it's like to be "made Hungarian" by growing up with a parent who immigrated to North America as a refugee. In forty-five folk-art visual poems each paired with a written poem, Hajnoczky reveals the beauty and tension of first-generation cultural identity.
   
  ‘Because translation between cultures is always fraught – and yet somehow translate we must – Magyarázni explores language and cultural identity in the permeable space fomenting between family and society, word and image initiating us into a new alphabet of lived meaning. In reading we wonder along with Magyarázni’s wandering “you,” we care and get entangled in the “brambles of your cursive,” we too are “made Hungarian.”’ —Oana Avasilichioaei
   
  ‘Familiar but out of reach, Magyarázni reforms the language of home on the tip of your tongue, a language of knotted cursive and bubbled syntax; folksong and stovetop. Each letter blossoms as a hand-drawn flower and a sputtering drone of spits and pith. Magyarázni punctuates every I with a poppy seed, every C with the splinter­ed foil of a solemn treat. Mournful and personal, Magyarázni calls out for the language of family.’ —Derek Beaulieu

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  Fishskin Trousers (2017 edition)...

  Elizabeth Kuti

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  A haunting play about loss and grief, set in the mists of Suffolk.
  Fishskin Trousers weaves together the haunting tales of three lost people from different eras, united by the common setting of the fishing village of Orford in Suffolk, its castle and its mysterious island, Orford Ness.
  From the twelfth century, Mab gives an eyewitness account of the legendary Wild Man of Orford, caught in the nets of fishermen... Eight hundred years later, at the height of the Cold War, Ben, a young Australian scientist, hears strange noises on the Ness as he tries to fix the island's radar system. While Mog, in 2003, is faced with a heartbreaking decision...
  Suffused by the landscape and traditional folk tales of East Anglia, their echoing voices and stories reveal how deeply and intimately their lives touch each other, though decades – and even centuries – separate them.
  Elizabeth Kuti's Fishskin Trousers premiered at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2013, and was revived at Park Theatre, London, in October 2017.
  This volume also contains the short plays Enter A Gentleman and Time Spent on Trains.
  'A beautiful, looping piece, revelling in the rhythms of Suffolk speech… an engrossing, enveloping piece of writing' - The Stage
  'Entrancing... This is storytelling theatre at its simplest, and it's always measured, never showy... gradually I found myself totally immersed in these shimmering, fishy tales from the depths of time and human experience.' - Guardian
  'A fascinating and lyrical piece of writing' - Time Out

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  Short Poetry Collection 109

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2012.

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