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  You are Old Father William

  Lewis Carroll

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 different recordings of You are Old, Father William by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 20th, 2008.

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  Grandfather's Robin

  Gillian Bickley

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  Grandfather's Robin offers poems about People, Fellow Creatures, Society, Ekphrasis, Scenes and Moods, Survival, and Short Poems. They were written over several years, in response to people seen, read about, or known, and in response to creatures seen, read about, or known. Other poems respond to group and social behaviour, and reflect responses to works of art. Some poems are prompted by the natural world, urban and village life, and thoughts about the survival of all beings. The short poems offer instants both serious and humorous. 
  “So many reasons to enjoy Gillian Bickley’s luminous poetry – humour, depth and wisdom. ... Lovely and evocative, Bickley’s powers of observation and precise, selective description lend many of these poems the power of fine portraiture, a sepia photograph, where we see into the eyes, where we discover essence.” 
  — Jack Mayer, poet (Poems from the Wilderness) 
  “In this work, Gillian Bickley affords us a glimpse into her perspective. She invites us to reflect on the rich tapestry of life and our shared human experience. Why should you read this collection? Because there is no greater privilege than intimacy.” 
   —Mary-Jane Newton poet (Of Symbols Misused, Unlocking) 
    
   “... poems as moments of tranquility in which we can encounter lives unrolling in times that ... are anything but. To make a record such as this is a good resolution indeed, and I am pleased that Gillian has chosen for the cover a moment of tranquility I painted. As Mrs. Dorothy Collins might have said, reflecting, as these poems do, the quietness of a life-long practice, ‘Very well!’” 
  —Steven Schroeder, Chicago

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  Drama - Pilot Episode

  Karen Hines

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  Dr. Penelope Douglas is an ex-forensic psychiatrist looking for a fresh start in a styling western boomtown, but on her first day practicing in her boutique suite, a young television writer hangs himself in her subway-tiled bathroom. A dissection of contemporary television drama through the eyes of the dead writer reveals to Penelope an unsettling connection between the forty-four-minute television hour and the disintegration of the human soul. But it isn’t until Penelope’s oil wife friend pronounces Penelope her unborn baby’s spiritual godmother that Dr. Douglas takes the dive into the uncharted waters of her own unconscious to break the spell that has the frontier in its filthy grip. Will Dr. Douglas be able to find heart in this wild new landscape? Will she have to smudge her lipstick to ‘cowboy up’? Drama, the long-awaited new play by the master of edgy dark humour, has all the answers.

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  The Living Room

  Graham Greene

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  London in the 1950s. A mysterious house, home to a family that has seen better days, will not yield its secrets. And a love affair turns to tragedy... Greene, one of the foremost writers of the 20th century, based the play on his own passionate but doomed affairs, and his conflicted view of Catholicism.Includes an interview with one of the world’s  foremost biographers of Graham Greene, Dr. Norman Sherry.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring W. Morgan Sheppard, Julian Sands, Kirsten Potter, Samantha Robson, Jane Carr and Judy Geeson.

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  Short Poetry Collection 099

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2011.

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  The Poetry of Edna St Vincent...

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

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  Elinor Morton Hoyt was born on 7th September, 1885 in Somerville, New Jersey and from age 12 grew up in Washington D C where her father served as assistant attorney general and later solicitor general.  Her early education together with her renowned beauty suggests she was being trained for life as a debutante but her life quickly found another route as she became absorbed in the world of books. 
   
  An early marriage following her graduation ended when, after being pursued by Horace Wylie, 17 years her senior and a married Washington lawyer with three children, she eloped to England with him.  His wife would not divorce him and the subsequent scandal was widely publicised further fueled by the suicide in 1912 of her abandoned husband. 
   
  With Wylie's encouragement she published in 1912, ‘Incidental Number’, assembled from poems of the previous decade. 
   
  Despite a child from her first marriage Elinor subsequently endured miscarriages, a stillbirth and a premature child who lived for only one week.  When Wylie’s deserted wife agreed to a divorce, the couple returned to the United States and married but they were already drawing apart. 
   
  In 1921, Elinor’s ‘Nets to Catch the Wind’, was published. It was an immediate success and a prize-winner.  In New York’s literary circles she found her next husband who acted as her agent – the poer William Rose Benét, brother of the famed Stephen. They married in 1923 and that same year ‘Black Armor’, was published. The New York Times said "There is not a misplaced word or cadence in it."  She also published her first of four novels, ‘Jennifer Lom’, to excellent reviews. 
   
  She worked for a time as the poetry editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of Literary Guild, and a contributing editor of The New Republic.  Her third book of poetry, ‘Trivial Breath’ arrived in 1928 as did the failure of her marriage with Benét.  
   
  She moved again to England and fell in love with a friend’s husband, to whom she wrote, and later published a series of 19 sonnets; ‘Angels and Earthly Creatures’. 
   
  Elinor Wylie suffered high blood pressure all her adult life and this eventually led to her death at Benet’s New York apartment on 16th December, 1928 where she suffered a stroke. She was 43. 
   
  1 - The Poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay - An Introduction 
  2 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  3 - Dirge Without Music by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  4 - Renascence by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  5 - If Still Your Orchards Bear by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  6 - My Heart Being Hungry by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  7 - First Fig by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  8 - Feast by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  9 - Second Fig by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  10 - No Rose That in a Garden Ever Grew by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  11 - Three Songs of Shattering by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  12 - Rosemary by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  13 - I Too Beneath Your Moon by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  14 - Sonnet XLIII - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  15 - Sorrow by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  16 - Departure by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  17 - Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  18 - Journey by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  19 - Mist in the Valley by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  20 - Tavern by Edna St Vinent Millay 
  21 - Exiled by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  22 - A Visit to the Asylum by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  23 - Recuerdo by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  24 - The Philosopher by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  25 - Sonnet XXX -  Love is Not All by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  26 - Sonnet XVIII - I, Being Born a Woman by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  27 - The Betrothal by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  28 - When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Fa

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