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  Second Place Rosette - Poems...

  Richard O'Brien

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  Second Place Rosette is a calendar of the customs, rituals and practices that make up life in modern Britain. The poems take in maypole dancing, mehndi painting, and medical prescriptions. Some events, like the Jewish Sabbath, happen every week; some, like the putting away of Christmas decorations, thankfully come only once a year. The subjects range from the universal to the personal: every family might have its own ritual, and each culture its own important figures to remember and commemorate. In the introduction, co-editor Emma Wright notes how, as the daughter of a refugee, she felt 'deeply disturbed by current discourse about Britishness and how it seems impossible to separate talk of national identity and pride from talk of exclusion and isolation.' Against that divisive rhetoric, Wright and co-editor Richard O'Brien have assembled a refreshingly inclusive take on national identity. Poets from different cultural backgrounds speak to their sense of what Britain means through their own daily lived experience, through what they care about on a grass-roots level. The nation which emerges from the poems is a patchwork quilt of betting tips and TV dinners, nights out on Bold Street and strolls in the park. While the years pass, the seasons cycle, and the people who make up the country change, these poets reveal how much stays the same. In Britain, there will always be a man running late who really should have been allowed to get the bus, and a warm spot by the fire in a pub in December. Much of the book displays an ambivalence towards the land and its rituals, but there is also love, affection and pride. Mixed feelings: what could be more British than that?

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  John Keats: Poems

  John Keats

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  This well-edited recording contains Keats's most famous works.“Douglas Dodge modulates his voice beautifully to capture the slightly varied emotions of many poems. This well-edited recording contains Keats's most famous works: 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci,' 'The Eve of St. Agnes,' 'Ode to a Nightingale,' 'On a Grecian Urn,' along with many lesser-known short poems such as 'To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat' that exhibit the poet's more fanciful side.”—Library Journal

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  Legendary Scenes from Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare

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  The Finest Shakespearean Actors including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Richard Burton perform some of their most wellknown scenes from King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II and A Midsummer Night's Dream

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  We Are The Winter People - The...

  Jenny Rowbory

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  We Are The Winter People is the collected works of Jenny Rowbory. The diverse range of poetry deals with love, loss and the poet's ever-changing relationship with faith. Despite the struggles depicted within the work, it is an ultimately empowering collection, filled with strength, determination and hope. We Are The Winter People contains poems to 'come alongside you and hold your hand' and will offer you compassion and company in your times of struggle. Beautifully written, sometimes playful and sometimes painful, the poetry speaks to our souls as we try to navigate this life together.We are the winter people was recorded and produced at Monkeynut Audiobooks, UK. monkeynutuk.com

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  New Thought Pastels

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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  This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. While the volume is relatively small, it has been reprinted many times and gained quite some popularity. - Summary by Carolin

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  Fifty Shades of Christmas - 50...

  Emily Dickinson, Alfred...

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  Over the centuries the Christian festival of the celebration of Christ has lost much of its religious element as it has morphed into becoming a convenient date for mass marketing and the consumption of excess food, drink and material goods to a now global audience. 
   
  But look below the glossy veneer of commercialism and we find a truer meaning, a moral message and guidance that whilst we may all want it watered down a little in these more secular times does contain some truths and principles for us all to enjoy better lives and better relationships with those around us. 
   
  In this volume of fifty poems our classic poets bring us everything from the tried and trusted view to the irreverent but mainly focus on their faith that can rejoice at this festival and makes us all part of the human race, its ideals and its joys.   
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of Christmas - An Introduction 
  2 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan 
  3 - Nativity by John Donne 
  4 - Wondrous Sight For Men and Angels by Ann Griffiths 
  5 - Angels From the Realms of Glory by James Montgomery 
  6 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell 
  7 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  8 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart 
  9 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale 
  10 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling 
  11 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere 
  12 - Carol by Ben Jonson 
  13 - A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  14 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton 
  15 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi 
  16 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling 
  17 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick 
  18 - A Carol. I by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland 
  19 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell 
  20 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy 
  21 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan 
  22 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan 
  23 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan 
  24 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy 
  25 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti 
  26 - The Oxen by Thomas Hardy 
  27 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 
  28 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott 
  29 - In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  30 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton 
  31 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats 
  32 - Winter Sunset by Katharine Tynan 
  33 - Joseph by G K Chesterton 
  34 - The White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire 
  35 - A Winter's Sad Retreat by Daniel Sheehan 
  36 - December's Snow by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  37 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson 
  38 - Winter Heavens by George Meredith 
  39 - Sweetheart Winter by Vachel Lindsay 
  40 - The Foolish Fir Tree by Henry Van Dyke 
  41 - Minstrels.  A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth 
  42 - The Mahogany Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  43 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson 
  44 - Twas Just This Time Last Year I Died by Emily Dickinson 
  45 - The House of Christmas by G K Chesterton 
  46 - Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  47 -  Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  48 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick 
  49 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson 
  50 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  51 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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