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  The Stone Serpent - Barates of...

  Nouri al-Jarrah

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  Syrian poet Nouri al-Jarrah brings to life a story that can never again be lost in time after a single line in Aramaic on a tombstone fired his imagination. This inspiring epic poem awakens two extraordinary lovers, Barates, a Syrian from Palmyra, and Regina, the Celtic slave he freed and married, from where they have lain at rest beside Hadrian's Wall for eighteen centuries, and tells their unique story.
  Barates' elegy to his beloved wife, who died young at 30, is, however, not about mythologising history. With the poet himself an exile in Britain for 40 years from his birthplace of Damascus, the poem forges new connections with today, linking al-Jarrah's personal journey with that of his ancient forebear Barates, who resisted slavery with love.
  Barates' Eastern song also questions whether the young Celtic fighters, the Tattooed Ones, were really barbarians, as they emerged from forest mists to defend their hills and rivers and their way of life from the Romans, and died or lay wounded at the twisting stone serpent that was Hadrian's Wall.

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  The Hound of the Baskervilles -...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bleak...

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  "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" 
   
  The Great Detective embarks upon his most terrifying case, when an ancient curse threatens to claim the life of the last surviving member of the Baskerville family. Does a demonic hound stalk the moor at night? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of mystery is brought to life in this lushly-scored, full-cast audio adaptation featuring Sir Derek Jacobi (Cadfael, Gladiator) as Sherlock Holmes with Anthony D.P. Mann as Dr. Watson. 
   
  Cast: Sir Derek Jacobi (Sherlock Holmes), Anthony D.P. Mann (Dr. Watson), Ilke Hincer (Sir Henry), Amie Bello (Mrs. Barrymore), Nikolas Yuen (Mortimer), Barry Yuen (Stapleton), Lisa Morrissey (Hotel Attendant), James Hoegerl (Boy), Richard Boyer (Policeman). Music by Brent Holland.

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  Great Poets The: John Masefield

  John Masefield

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  John Masefield (1878–1967) was one of the most prolific, popular and successful poets of the twentieth century. Masefield broke upon Edwardian literature with the startling work entitled The Everlasting Mercy, which described the spiritual enlightenment of a drunken poacher. 
  Over the span of his lifetime, he was appointed Poet Laureate and amassed a large number of admirers, which included such high-profile names as John Betjeman, Robert Graves and W.B. Yeats. 
  This collection contains thirty-six poems and spans Masefield’s entire career. There are early poems from Salt-Water Ballads (1902) and Ballads (1903), followed by extracts from the narrative poems The Everlasting Mercy, Dauber, and Reynard the Fox. 
  The selection also includes a number of sonnets including ‘On Growing Old’, as well as his poetry on the Romans, alongside a number of rarities.
  Public Domain (P)2013 Naxos AudioBooks

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  All Along You Were Blooming -...

  Morgan Harper Nichols

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  A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An anthem of freedom. This illustrated collection of poetry and prose invites you to stumble into the sunlight and delight in the wild and boundless grace you've been given. 
  Popular Instagram poet and bestselling author Morgan Harper Nichols gives you the ultimate love letter to your mind, heart, soul, and body, reminding you:There is a purpose in every seasonNo matter how you want to race through this day or run away from this place, you are invited to live fully—right here, right nowLight will always find you, even when the sun sets and you sit awaiting the dawnYou are always blooming in the way you were meant to 
    
  All Along You Were Blooming is perfect for self-gifting for your own affirmation or giving to others on Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, birthdays, and other holidays and milestone days. In each small moment, whether in the light or the dark, you can make room for becoming, for breathing, for stumbling, and for simply being—for there is grace, today and every day. 
  Follow Morgan on Instagram @morganharpernicols (along with her millions of followers), and look for more beautiful, thought-provoking poetry in her other collections:How Far You Have ComeYou Are Only Just Beginning

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  Luxury Blue Lace

  S. Brook Corfman

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  Often, the fact of being an individual can seem wildly at odds with the experience of containing multitudes. In Luxury, Blue Lace, S. Brook Corfman takes the reader through this complicated experience of selfhood and its multitudes, exploring the many overlapping identities a single person can contain. Corfman’s poems conjure a host of identities and selves both living and dead, gesturing towards the complex way memory and loss can inhabit us. Formed by experience, history, and the strictures of gender, the poems dwell on the challenges of fully knowing and understanding the diverse parts of a subject. While they seek out a full form for the individual, they also relish the complex multiplicity of the identities that arise through self-exploration and self-knowledge. Luxury, Blue Lace was the winner of the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize in 2018.

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― Autumn - 12...

  Emily Dickenson, Kahlil Gibran,...

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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. 
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Autumn - An Introduction 
  2 - The Name of it is Autumn by Emily Dickinson 
  3 - Autumn by Khalil Gibran 
  4 - In Autumn Moonlight by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  5 - The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  6 - Autumn in the Garden by Fredegond Shove 
  7 - An Autumn Rain Scene by Thomas Hardy 
  8 - Love in Autumn by Sara Teasdale 
  9 - Autumn in Cornwall by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  10 - To Autumn by William Blake 
  11 - Autumn Dawn by Charles Sorley 
  12 - Autumn Elegy by Leslie Norris 
  13 - Autumn - A Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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