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  Floodmeadow

  Toby Martinez de las Rivas

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  The Floodmeadow draws us into a seething pastoral where lightning threatens and thunder gathers, pylons and powerlines hum, and steel-framed gates sing out into the wind. In these incantatory pieces, everything is present at once. The landscape, teetering on apocalypse, is characterised by collision and disintegration. Among fragments of memory and history are meticulously journaled observations of the natural world: the moorhen who 'with exaggerated delicacy steps / free of the reedbeds'; the dragonfly that 'pushes itself through the armour / of its body' to be born.  The world is populated by archangels and wild gods, the roar of military aircraft, hunting dogs caught permanently suspended in the chase and a car that veers from the road into the floodwater in which the whole collection is saturated. Human relations are fleeting and vulnerable, appearing in the impression of a wedding or the recurring moments captured between a father and son, who make between them delicate balsawood constructions, which - as the poems do themselves - take flight in the turmoil, ecstatic one moment, plunged into darkness the next. This is a visionary collection that invokes other times, dimensions and soundscapes to tell out some word of beauty and abundance in the here and now.

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  Erebus

  Elizabeth Lewis Williams

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  In 1958, geophysicist A. G. Lewis travelled to the Antarctic to investigate the landscapes and skies of that vast and icy continent.
  Now Elizabeth Lewis Williams traces her father's journeys, from the Peninsula to Mt Erebus. They are real, imagined, and artistic journeys, exploring communication across time and space, and experiments in scientific and poetic measure.
  Erebus transports us to an Antarctic of paradox. A land where perpetual daylight balances months of austral darkness. A land of encounters with the unknown, and with mortality – but where camaraderie and faith are the only defence against catastrophe.
  At its heart, Erebus is a visit to the frozen underworld, and an exploration of how we find a place for ourselves in this vast and often unforgiving world we call home.

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  The Songsculptor Method

  Richard Melvin Brown

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  THE SONGSCULPTOR METHOD (How to write a GREAT commercial song) by Award Winning Songwriter Richard Melvin Brown includes musical-Clips and Examples pertaining to the subject matter. To actually hear what we are talking about in the  (Musical-Clips and Examples) is a huge advantage in understanding the overall concepts in the art and craft of professional songwriting. You will learn " How to write a GREAT Commercial Song " with all the " Secret Songwriter Tips and Techniques " the Pro's use.  An Introduction to Marketable Songwriting  You will learn. THE SONG'S STRUCTURE It's kind of like laying the foundation of a house, but much easier to build, and a whole lot more fun.    HOOK LINE AND SINKERYes, the hook is everything, well almost everything,  It's totally meant to bend the ear, but a hook is something that should not be feared. FINDING YOUR HOOK and FINDING YOUR SINKERIt's easier than you think,  Life is full of hooks, Just look around, Listen, and release your creative juices The rest of the lyrics.  Creativity, Play on Words, Tricks of the Trade. To rhyme or not to rhyme, Should you or Shouldn't you, Depends on the flow from deep inside your pen.   MUSIC  Cheerful earful, catchy tune, agreeable sound, pleasing melody, cordial composition, delightful ditty, raunchy number, cool tones. Chord Progressions, the meat and potatoes. The Nashville Number System > Wow, is this ever easy. Music is just a bundle of numbers which translate into a cluster of sound.   Variations on a Theme, and more easy ways to compose.   If you're not a Musician or adept at Musical Composition (and have no desire to learn the music end of things) this section will help you in understanding your collaborators role in the creative process of Co-Writing.  The accompanying SONGSCULPTOR METHOD eBook can be downloaded at https://songsculptor.com/eBook.htm There is much more BUSINESS of Songwriting info in it.

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  Rock (NHB Modern Plays)

  Chris Bush

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  Susie used to be a rocker. Susie used to be a radical. Susie was the future once, but that was a long time ago. It's been fifty years since her father bought an old scissor factory, and handed it over to her brother to run. Now Eddie's dead, and finally it's her time in the spotlight. She has big plans for it. She's turning up the volume. She's going to make this city sing again, if it's the last thing she does.
  Rock is a play about family, heritage and legacy, and is part of Chris Bush's trilogy of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors. The three plays were first performed simultaneously with the same cast moving between three theatres in Sheffield – the Crucible, the Lyceum and the Studio – as part of Sheffield Theatres' fiftieth birthday celebrations in 2022.

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  Metamorphosis

  Vincetta

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  Metamorphosis explores generational trauma, heartbreak, shadow work, and ultimately coming to truth, self-love, and wholeness. 
  Metamorphosis is divided into three chapters, each diving deeper into a different phase of the metamorphosis. As you listen, you will go through the journey of healing with me—bearing witness to my state of mind, thoughts, and feelings. You will be submerged into my world as I transform from a caterpillar to butterfly, experiencing pain, healing, death, and rebirth. 
  My hope is that Metamorphosis can serve as a healing tool for you, as a catalyst guiding you to explore your own depths honestly and bravely so that you too can emerge anew.

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  Red Corner - a poetic collection

  Dawn Web

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  Through spoken word and musical compositions, Red Corner underpins the interconnectedness of key themes: identity, sexual health, neurodiversity, queer and political issues, sexism, racism, illness, suicide, perseverance, and navigating intergenerational trauma. Be transported by Dawn's raw and vulnerable tone: a visceral and transformative experience. Accompanied by musician and songwriter Salwa. 
  “The early chapters are spare, confessional, and often emotionally messy...strange, uncanny, and disorienting. In the first half of the collection, Web typically favours economical, lyric poetry reminiscent of Phyllis Webb’s Naked Poems, but often plays with the rhythmic and declarative registers of slam poetry, sections of dialogue that call to mind screenwriting, and prose poems. This formal elasticity builds towards the sixth chapter, Vortex, a personal essay that chronicles the poet’s journey through mental illness, sexual assault, and sexual identity. The voice in this chapter and the following—Backwards, a socially-minded section reminiscent of Karen Solie’s politically charged poetry—is confident, even strident; the path to that self-assurance has been traced in the earlier chapters, which reveal Web’s ambivalence, in terms of diagnosis, embodiment, illness, and treatment. In the final chapters, Web returns to an intimate and confessional voice that opens towards a greater sense of connectivity, community, and acceptance. RED CORNER is more than a collection—it’s a carefully mapped journey that acknowledges the difficult and essential nature of self-acceptance... Web’s first book is a great read—it’s complex, thoughtful, and engaging. The breadth and the depth of the writing in RED CORNER promises that it won’t be the last from this ambitious, brave, and introspective young writer.” 
  —Becca Babcock, Author with Nimbus Publishing, Actor/Filmmaker, Writing Instructor and Assistant Dean of FASS at Dalhousie University

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