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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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  The Poetry of Katharine Tynan

  Katharine Tynan

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  Katherine Tynan was born on January 23rd 1859 into a large farming family in Clondalkin, County Dublin, and educated at a convent school in Drogheda.  In her early years she suffered from eye ulcers, which left her somewhat myopic.   
   
  She first began to have her poems published in 1878.  A great friend to Gerard Manley Hopkins and to WB Yeats (who it is rumoured proposed marriage but was rejected). With Yeats to encourage her, her poetry blossomed and she was equally supportive of his.  She married fellow writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson in 1898.  They moved to England where she bore and began to raise 5 children although two were to tragically die in infancy.  In 1912 they returned to Claremorris, County Mayo when her husband was appointed magistrate there from 1912 until 1919.  Sadly her husband died that year but Katherine continued to write.    
   
  Her output was prolific, some sources have her as the author of almost a 100 novels.  Here we concentrate on her poetry. Amongst the classics such as ‘The Wind That Shakes the Barley’ are numerous war poems.  She is now sometimes grouped amongst the War Poets of the First World War. Her experience was not direct but as a Mother with one son serving in France and another in Palestine, the emotions, fears and doubts are expressed in a beautiful heart-felt way.  
   
  Katharine died on April 2nd 1931 and she is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery in London. 
  1 - The Poetry of Katherine Tynan - An Introduction 
  2 - Any Woman by Katharine Tynan 
  3 - The Nurse by Katharine Tynan 
  4 - The Only Child by Katharine Tynan  
  5 - Alienation by Katharine Tynan 
  6 - The Young Mother by Katharine Tynan 
  7 - Any Mother by Katharine Tynan 
  8 - The Only Son by Katharine Tynan 
  9 - The Father by Katharine Tynan 
  10 - The Summons by Katharine Tynan 
  11 - Joining the Colours by Katharine Tynan 
  12 - The Aerodrome by Katharine Tynan 
  13 - Flower of Youth by Katharine Tynan 
  14 - A Lament by Katharine Tynan 
  15 - The Predestined by Katharine Tynan 
  16 - A Hero by Katharine Tynan 
  17 - Mid the Piteous Heap of Dead by Katharine Tynan 
  18 - The Weeping Babe by Katharine Tynan 
  19 - All Souls by Katharine Tynan 
  20 - No Man's Land by Katharine Tynan 
  21 - The Old Soldier by Katharine Tynan 
  22 - Salutation by Katharine Tynan 
  23 - Wings in the Night by Katharine Tynan 
  24 - The Great Sorrow by Katharine Tynan 
  25 - The End of the Day by Katharine Tynan 
  26 - They Who Return by Katharine Tynan 
  27 - Quiet Eyes by Kathaine Tynan 
  28 - The Refuge by Katharine Tynan 
  29 - The Foggy Dew by Katharine Tynan 
  30 - A Song of Spring by Katharine Tynan 
  31 - Slow Spring by Katharine Tynan 
  32 - Sheep and Lambs by Katharine Tynan 
  33 - Easter by Katharine Tynan 
  34 - Winter Sunset by Katharine Tynan 
  35 - A Gardener Sage by Katharine Tynan 
  36 - The Bird's Bargain by Katharine Tynan 
  37 - St Francis and the Birds by Katharine Tynan 
  38 - The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Katharine Tynan 
  39 - Blessings by Katharine Tynan 
  40 - A Song for the New Year by Katherine Tynan 
  41 - Mater Dei by Katharine Tynan 
  42 - Immortality by Katharine Tynan 
  43 - The Epitipah by Katharine Tynan

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  If Men Then - Poems

  Eliza Griswold

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  A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and ProsperityIf Men, Then, Eliza Griswold's second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold's language is forthright and intimate as she steers between the chaos of a tumultuous inner world and an external landscape littered with SUVs, CBD oil, and go bags, talismans of our time. Alternately searing and hopeful, funny and fraught, the poems explore the world's fracturing through the collapse of the ego, embodied in a character named "I"—a soul attempting to wrestle with itself in the face of an unfolding tragedy.

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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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  Little Women (NHB Modern Plays)...

  Louisa May Alcott

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  Christmas Eve, 1862. With their father away on the frontline of the American Civil War, the four March sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy – journey into adulthood, each determined to pursue a life on their own terms. But growing up means contending with love and loss, as well as the myriad twists of fortune that shape a life.
  Published in 1868, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was an immediate critical and commercial success, and remains one of the best-loved novels of all time.
  This joyful and spirited adaptation was first produced at Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Watford Palace Theatre in 2022, directed by Brigid Larmour. An earlier version was staged at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in 2011.
  It provides rich opportunities for any amateur company looking for an uplifting version of a classic story that's guaranteed to delight audiences.

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  Shadow of a Doubt - Hollywood Stage

  Hollywood Stage Productions

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  Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's Shadow of a Doubt starring William Powell & Theresa Wright.

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