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"Over the Brazier" is a great work by Robert graves. The book entails numerous wonderful poems with great insight interested personnel in war poetry will give high regard to many of them for the perspective they give of the first world war.
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 readings of Romance by Andrew Lang, probably best known as Edward Elgar's song My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land. Interestingly, Lang initially refused permission for his words to be used as lyrics, and Elgar's wife Alice wrote alternative words Afar, amidst the Sunny Isles for the song. However, Lang later relented and gave permission for his poem to be used. The poem was initially published in The Century Magazine, May 1882, and this is the version recorded here. Later collections of Lang's poetry omit the third verse. (Summary by Ruth Golding)Mostra libro
What started as a complaint about the '40-line rule' in much of the poetry world has turned into an anthology that not only breaks that rule, but stomps all over it. Featuring 25 poems which break the rules - these are long, narrative, but by no means traditional poems, by contemporary voices. Themes both great and small are explored in narrative poems that pack a punch. Human interactions from conversation, storytelling, lending and borrowing, theft, prayer, memory, shopping and a long walk, right through to sexuality, time travel, truce negotiations, disappearance, natural disaster, violence and death are all explored, many of them rooted in landscape and place. These lie alongside equally rooted mythological and historical tales drawn from Greece, Turkey, Africa, Scandinavia and Britain. What draws all these themes together is the strength of the storytelling. Emotions as diverse as frustration, disappointment, embarrassment, hope, nostalgia, anger, and fear are channelled through spectacular poetry in many different forms into truly satisfying work.Mostra libro
The Malevolent Volume explores the myths and transformations of Black being, on a continuum between the monstrous and the sublime. Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath the exploited civilities of marginalized people. In these poems, Reed finds agency in the other-than-human identities assigned to those assaulted by savageries of the state. In doing so, he summons a retaliatory, counterviolent Black spirit to revolt and to inhabit the revolting.Mostra libro
This is a collection of scenes from Shakespeare's plays, mainly comprising dialogues between two characters. The theme for this collection is "Wooing, Wedding, and Repenting" (inspired by a line from Much Ado About Nothing). (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) The Taming of the Shrew, Act 2 Scene 1 read by: Algy Pug, Verity Kendall Richard III, Act 1 Scene 3 read by: Winston Tharp, Elizabeth Barr A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2 Scene 1 read by: Martin Geeson, Grace Garrett Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 Scene 2 read by: Charlotte Duckett, Verity Kendall Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1 read by: Arielle Lipshaw, Valerie Tan Henry V, Act 5 Scene 2 read by: Tiffany Halla Colonna, Winston Tharp, Elizabeth Klett As You Like It, Act 3 Scene 2 read by: Arielle Lipshaw, Elizabeth Klett Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1 read by: Martin Geeson, Grace Garrett Twelfth Night, Act 1 Scene 5 read by: Elizabeth Barr, Grace Garrett Measure For Measure, Act 2 Scene 4 read by: Algy Pug, Elizabeth Klett All's Well That Ends Well, Act 4 Scene 2 read by: Martin Geeson, Elizabeth Barr Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1 Scene 3 read by: Amanda Friday, Algy Pug Cymbeline, Act 1 Scene 6 read by: David Richardson, Carol Box The Winter's Tale, Act 4 Scene 4 read by: Amanda Friday, Martin Geeson The Tempest, Act 3 Scene 1 read by: Algy Pug, Arielle Lipshaw, Elizabeth KlettMostra libro
An explosive, gripping and disturbing play about the phenomenon of False Memory Syndrome. Winner of the 1997 Edinburgh Festival Critics' Award Anna Weiss is a hypnotherapist, specialising in revealing 'lost' memories. Under her care, twenty-year-old Lynn has begun to 'remember' a long history of sexual abuse by her father. When Lynn confronts her father, David, he protests his innocence vehemently - so are Lynn's memories real or are they dark auto-suggestions? Anna Weiss prompts intense speculation on our need for faith in each other, as we watch three lives plummet into an abyss of mutual mistrust. 'This is one of those rare plays that leaves an audience emotionally overwhelmed and desperate to talk about what they have just seen... Cullen has joined the major league of contemporary dramatists' - Daily Telegraph 'A piece of theatre as intriguing and slippery as any you are likely to see this year' - IndependentMostra libro
From the voice of Fenway Park comes a collection of sixty-four humorous and nostalgic poems celebrating the Boston Red Sox. A commonwealth institution and popular local television personality who is also the announcer, ambassador, and poet laureate for Fenway Park, Dick Flavin has entertained audiences with his incredible poetic talent and abiding love for the Red Sox before countless home games for more than twenty years. Now, this legendary talent's poems are gathered together for the first time in this keepsake volume. As a beloved Red Sox insider, Flavin has been privileged to watch history in the making, from the team's 2005 World Series victory that finally broke its nearly century-long "curse," to road-tripping with Dom DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky, to witnessing Ted Williams final appearance at the plate. His pithy and comedic verses—including such gems as "The Beards of Summer," "Long Live Fenway Park," and his best known, "Teddy at the Bat"—pay homage to the American pastime, New England's favorite team and players (and the curses and legends that have followed it), and the passionate Nation that has remained faithful through victory and defeat. Illustrated with more than fifty photos from the official Red Sox archives, Red Sox Rhymes honors all of Red Sox fandom and is an essential memento for every Bosox fan.A HarperAudio production.Mostra libro
