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  Born in England – Exploring...

  Geoffrey Chaucer, William Blake,...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series, we take a look at poetry through the prism of individual regions of England, or sometimes more quaintly known as ‘Albion’, or ‘Blighty’, through the centuries of its gloried history. 
   
  England, despite its perception of reserve and under-statement has, in reality, strode the global stage at various time in many things, both good and bad, from Empire to long distance running. Here our focus in on its literature.  Famed for its fiction and dramas, it is equally admired for its plethora of gifted poets and the dazzling verse which has added so much to its artistic legacy.  These classic poets are wonders of their age and of their art.  Genius is written in their names. 
   
  In this volume the instantly globally recognisable city of London has, for century after century, dominated the country.  Its rich history of art, culture and commerce interweave with generation after generation of poets to produce a supremely rich tapestry of undimmed brilliance.  Our poets include Alexander Pope, Amy Levy, Edmund Spenser, John Keats, G K Chesterton and a host of others.  Genius has many names.

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  Mahogany Eve

  Alan Payne

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  An exotic and ambitious collection in which deceptively simple structures are built to carry an impressive weight of interest and reference. – Andrew Motion
  The guardian spirit of this book is a mahogany sculpture called Eve, part of the permanent collection in the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield. She's looking over her shoulder. Her gaze takes in journeys across the Atlantic, beaches in the Caribbean, a boarding school in Yorkshire, departures and arrivals, home- comings, a grandmother buried in Port of Spain, two brothers on the Orinoco, Hindu gods and goddesses, runaways, castaways, slaves, a cartographer who never leaves his room, mothers and sons, fathers and sons, and a goat pulling a bishop on a sledge…
  Alan Payne's poems are rooted in the Caribbean, evoking a sense of separation and loss, and touch on the contradictions and betrayals of colonialism.
  Shortlisted for the 2025 Derek Walcott Prize

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  Asleep in Spring's Embrace

  Kate Cassia

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  "For the child enduring a long winter of the heart, here is Spring’s gentlest whisper." 
  Winter felt endless, and the world outside seemed painted in shades of cold gray. For the child hiding behind the heavy curtains, stepping out felt like an impossible journey. But Spring doesn't knock loudly; it whispers. 
  From the quiet cracking of the frozen earth to the "ticklish" touch of the warm breeze, and the sudden, joyous explosion of yellow flowers, Asleep in Spring's Embrace follows the tender journey of a child learning to trust the world again. Through the soothing rhythm of nature, the protagonist discovers that the warmth they were searching for was waiting right outside the window.

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  Wake up Cup

  Felix Samual

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  Jason and Angie are a married couple who go to the cafe early to drink cappuccinos before work, but today unfortunately there is a power failure, and they are unable to get their drinks. In the cafe they meet another couple, Eve and Steve who are also their neighbors. Eve and Steve are a bit peculiar and Jason and Angie try to keep their distance..

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  Bán

  Carys D. Coburn

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  1980s Ireland. Five sisters, bound together under their mother's watchful eye, spend their lives longing for escape, power and the one local eligible bachelor.
  Dark, raucous and with a tender heart, BÁN is a reworking of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba. Carys D. Coburn's play was a finalist for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2025.

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  Something Childish but very Natural

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Something Childish, but very Natural by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 7, 2011.Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. (summary from Wikipedia)

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