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  Tact

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Tact by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 22, 2012.Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. ( Summary by Wikipedia )

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  Estate Walls (NHB Modern Plays)

  Arinzé Kene

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  Estate Walls is the story of Obi, a young writer who dreams of leaving his estate. But with bad boys Myles and Cain for best friends, there are bound to be setbacks…
  Arinzé Kene's play premiered at Ovalhouse Theatre in south London in September 2010, directed by Ché Walker, winning Arinzé the Most Promising Playwright at the Offies (Off West End Theatre Awards) in 2011.

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  The Poetry of August

  William Wordsworth, Charles...

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  AUGUST  - The eighth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the full palette of nature is on glorious display.  Our poets, Wordsworth, Swinburne, Alford, Riley and Hardy describe and reveal their thoughts on the month and notable dates within it.  Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. August - An Introduction; Hymn For The First Of August By John Pierpoint; Stanzas For The First Of August By James Monroe Whitfield; Sonnet XLII To GWC August 1st 1846 By Christopher Pearse Cranch; To Ms Jane Forster, On Her Birthday,  August 4th 1724 By Henry Baker; August 1865 By Carolyn Clive; August 1914 By Isaac Rosenberg; Composed Near Calais, August 7th 1802 By William Wordsworth; Grant At Rest August 8th 1885 By James Whitcomb Riley; August Moonrise By Sara Teasdale; Calais August 1802 By William Wordsworth; I H B Died August 11th 1898 By William Winter; Summer Is Ended By Christina Rossetti; Tis The last Rose Of Summer By Thomas Moore; At Sundown By Daniel Sheehan; The Summer Rain By Henry David Thoreau; From Piccadilly In August By John Freeman; A Summer Evening Churchyard By Percy Bsysshe Shelley; Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland August 1803 By William Wordsworth; August 19th 1830 By Henry Alford; August By James Whitcomb Riley; An August Evening, 1865 By Carolyn Clive; August the 22nd 1830 By Henry Alford; The Winds Tidings In August 1870 By Augusta Davies Webster; Sonnet LIII, August By Christopher Pearse Cranch; Moonlight Summer Moonlight By Emily Jane Bronte; Lines Written In August By Thomas Babbington Macaulay; August By Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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  Nice Fish - A Play

  Mark Rylance, Louis Jenkins

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  “A quirky charmer of a play [that] contains, beneath its homely surfaces, larger meanings that glide softly into your mind and heart.”—The New York Times (Critics’ Pick) 
   
  On a frozen Minnesota lake, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It’s the end of the fishing season and on the frostbitten, unforgiving landscape, two friends are out on the ice, angling for something big, something down there that, had it the wherewithal, could swallow them whole.  
   
  With the existentialism of a Beckett two-hander but set in the icy and folksy depths of the Midwest, Nice Fish is a unique portrayal of a friendship forged out of boredom, bad jokes, and an ability to wait for a really nice fish. Nice Fish premiered at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge Massachusetts, directed by Claire van Kampen; played to rave reviews in a sold-out extended run in New York in February 2016 at St. Ann’s Warehouse, starring Mark Rylance and Jim Lichtscheidl, and featuring Louis Jenkins; and transferred to London for a run in the West End at the Harold Pinter Theatre, beginning in November 2016.

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  Life Is

  Tom Stodulka

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  In his fourth publication, Tom Stodulka AM brings to you Life Is...: Forty poems of freedom, fortitude and friendship to give the reader moments of reflection and gratitude; for you to fill in the space of what Life Is....

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  One Jewish Boy (NHB Modern Plays)

  Stephen Laughton

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  Jesse is paranoid and frightened, and it's messing up his relationship, his job, his son and his life. But Jesse has every reason to be frightened; he is increasingly feeling the sting of rising prejudice in every part of his life.
  Stephen Laughton's play One Jewish Boy explores key moments over an eight-year relationship between a nice Jewish boy from North London and the nice, not-so-Jewish woman with whom he falls in love.
  An urgent response to anti-Semitism, this bittersweet comedy focuses on one young family's struggle against prejudice, and asks if the fear of hatred could be worse than hate itself? It was first produced at the Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington, in 2018, before transferring to Trafalgar Studios in London's West End in 2020.
  This edition also includes the short play Three.
  'Moving… shows how race, gender, class, culture, and, perhaps most importantly, fear, impact on the characters' lives' - The Stage
  'Does what good theatre should do – it begs questions and provokes thought which linger in the mind long after... provocative, urgent and powerful' - Attitude Magazine
  'The writing is sharp, with timely references to pop culture and millennial angst, with smartly-observed and funny discussions of white privilege, left-wing politics, Israel, and arguments over who had it worse... necessary viewing' - Everything Theatre
  'Wonderful and brilliantly written' - Exeunt Magazine

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