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  Interview with the Sphinx -...

  Jack Matthews

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  In this provocative & immensely irritating comic play, the Sphinx from ancient Greece is interviewed in modern times as though she were a celebrity pop star. The problem is she never answers any questions — never directly anyway. Instead she prefers just dishing the dirt on everybody. ON HOMER: “I never was exactly sure which one Homer was. I’m positive he wasn’t the blind one, though; that was just a silly story they started telling a few centuries later”. ON OEDIPUS: “Eddie was terribly conceited, you know … of course he was smart and handsome and, oh, just had a way of carrying himself that impressed everybody. In spite of his foot.” Bit by bit the Interviewer learns that what happens in Greek legend didn’t happen exactly the way Sophocles described it. Fortunately, the Sphinx offers the Interviewer another riddle … if only he could figure out what exactly it is! This witty 67 minute audio play stars Jill Brumer as the Sphinx and Neal Gage as the Interviewer. Part Tom Stoppard, part Monty Python, part Oscar Wilde, this play by Jack Matthews combines philosophical paradoxes with fast-paced verbal pyrotechnics. It offers the perfect antidote to people who remembered ancient literature as nothing but stuffy and melodramatic characters with hard-to-pronounce names.  
  Neal Gage  is a Houston actor and teacher who has appeared in several features and comic sketch videos on  Funny or Die. Jill Brumer has an MFA in Media & Performing Arts and teaches theater at Houston colleges. Jack Matthews (1925-2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright and former professor in Ohio. 
  The play was first published & performed in 1992; later it was revised & expanded for the 2013 audio production.

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  Auguries of a Minor God

  Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe

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  LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2022
  POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION
  
  'In Auguries of a Minor God, her outstandingdebut collection, Eipe sings of joys and wounds felt deeply under the skin' David Wheatley, Guardian
  
  Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe's spellbinding debut poetry collection explores love and the wounds it makes. Its first half is composed of five sections, corresponding to the five arrows of Kama, the Hindu God of Love, Desire and Memory. From 'stunning' and 'paralysing' to 'killing' and 'destroying', each arrow has its own effect on some body - a very real, contemporary body - and its particular journey of love.
  
  The second is a long narrative poem, 'A is for [Arabs]', which follows a different kind of journey: a family of refugees who have fled to the West from conflict in an unspecified Middle Eastern country. With an extraordinary structure, yoking abecedarian and Fibonacci sequences, it is a skilful and intimate account of migration and exile, of home and belonging.

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  The New York Idea

  Langdon Mitchell

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  I find it very hard to classify "The New York Idea" under any of the established rubrics. It is rather too extravagant to rank as a comedy; it is much too serious in its purport, too searching in its character-delineation and too thoughtful in its wit, to be treated as a mere farce. Its title—not, perhaps, a very happy one—is explained in this saying of one of the characters: "Marry for whim and leave the rest to the divorce court—that's the New York idea of marriage." Like all the plays, from Sardou's "Divorçons" onward, which deal with a too facile system of divorce, this one shows a discontented woman, who has broken up her home for a caprice, suffering agonies of jealousy when her ex-husband proposes to make use of the freedom she has given him, and returning to him at last with the admission that their divorce was at least "premature." In this central conception there is nothing particularly original. It is the wealth of humourous invention displayed in the details both of character and situation that renders the play remarkable. (Summary from Project Gutenberg)CastPhilip Phillimore: Mark F. SmithGrace Phillimore: Diana MajlingerMrs. Phillimore: Margaret EspaillatMiss Heneage: rashadaMatthew Phillimore: Roger MelinWilliam Sudley: om123Mrs. Vida Phillimore: Elizabeth KlettSir Wilfrid Cates-Darby: Equilibrium33John Karslake: mbMrs. Cynthia Karslake: Arielle LipshawBrooks: Equilibrium33Tim Fiddler: Equilibrium33Nogam: moonpilesThomas: David MuncasterBenson: Lucy PerryNarrator: Margaret EspaillatAudio edited by: Arielle Lipshaw

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  Poetry Hour The - Volume 14

  John Donne, William Shakespeare,...

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  Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words.  The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one.  But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition.  Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. 
   
  Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children’s textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today.  
   
  Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We’ve put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations.   
   
  In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of John Donne and Jane Austen as well as themes on November, The Female Poet, Westminster Memorials and more. 
   
  All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can’t.  Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes.  Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores.  
   
  This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that.   
   
  Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey. 
   
   
  The Poetry Hour – Volume 14 - An Introduction 
  John Donne – An Introduction 
  Death Be Not Proud by John Donne 
  The Good Morrow by John Donne 
  The Expiration by John Donne 
  A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by John Donne 
  Westminster Memorials – An Introduction 
  Longing by Matthew Arnold 
  London by William Blake 
  Heaven by Rupert Brooke 
  Apostasy by Charlotte Bronte 
  When We Two Parted by Lord Byron 
  He That is Down Needs Fear No Fall by John Bunyan 
  Turtle Soup by Lewis Carroll 
  A Thought For A Lonely Death Bed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  November 
  November by Thomas hood 
  November by Amy Lowell 
  November by John Payne 
  A November Night by Sara Teasdale 
  At Day Close In November by Thomas Hardy 
  The Poetry of William Shakespeare - An Introduction 
  If Music Be the Food of Love, from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 
  How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been (Sonnet 97) by William Shakespeare 
  Shall I Compare Thee to A Summers Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare 
  The Witches Spell by William Shakespeare 
  Full Fathom Five by William Shakespeare 
  No Longer Mourn For Me by William Shakespeare 
  Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare  
  The Female Poet – An Introduction. Volume 2 
  No Coward Soul is Mine by Emily Bronte  
  If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning  
  If Infinite Worlds, Infinite Centres by Margaret Cavendish  
  Isabella Valancy Crawford – We Parted in Silence 
  When My Love Did What I Would Not, What I Would Not by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge  
  I’m Ceded – I’ve Stopped Being Theirs by Emily Dickenson  
  Ah, Silly Pug by Queen Elizabeth I  
  Sweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George Eliot  
  The Poets of 19th Century America. An Introduction – Volume 2 
  Heaven is What I Cannot Reach by Emily Dickinson  
  Knee Deep in June by James Whitcomb Riley <

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  Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip

  Lisa Robertson

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  Verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 1995–2007. Collected by Elisa Sampedrin.
   
  Lisa Robertson writes poems that mine the past – its ideas, its personages, its syntax – to construct a lexicon of the future. Her poems both court and cuckold subjectivity by unmasking its fundament of sex and hesitancy, the coil of doubt in its certitude. Reading her laments and utopias, we realize that language – whiplike – casts ahead of itself a fortuitous form. The form brims here pleasurably with dogs, movie stars, broths, painting's detritus, Latin and pillage. Erudite and startling, the poems in Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip, occasional works written over the past fifteen years, turn vestige into architecture, chagrin into resplendence. In them, we recognize our grand, saddened century.
   
  'Robertson makes intellect seductive; only her poetry couldturn swooning into a critical gesture.'
   
  – The Village Voice
   
  'Here as in six earlier glittering books, Robertson proves hard to explain but easy to enjoy ... Dauntlessly and resourcefully intellectual, Robertson can also be playful or blunt ... Though she wields ... language expertly, even beautifully, she also shows an almost pagan delight in embodiment.'
   
  – New York Times
   
  'Robertson is one of our most crisply intelligent writers, and the poems and prose pieces in Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip ... continually knock readers off their conventional responses, asking that they follow the curlicues of thought-in-motion the writing displays.'
   
  – Canadian Literature
   
  'Magenta Soul Whip manages to exist in a universe of its own making, in which Baudelaire and Lucretius both make appearances, as do Jesus Christ and the adulteress he saved from stoning, a conversational dog, and contemporary Canadian visual artist Lucy Hogg. The book teaches us how to read it as it unfolds for us page by page.'
   
  – Jerry Magazine
   
  '[Robertson's] preoccupations are as much lyrical and communicative … as they are intellectual.'
   
  – Quill & Quire

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  Le Contre-ciel

  René Daumal

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  The author of Mount Analogue explores an uncharted path to the authentic self in this enlightening volume of poetic meditations. For Rene Daumal, true living can only be experienced after the facade of self-identity has been stripped away through a kind of metaphysical suicide. As he states in the second poem of this collection, “The individual mind attains its absolute through successive negations. I am that which thinks, not that which is thought.” In Le Contre-Ciel, Daumal invites his readers to venture with him on this Existential journey. Through philosophically contemplative poems, he acts as both chronicler and guide to the process of regeneration-through-negation in pursuit of genuine self-knowledge.

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