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  Fishskin Trousers (2017 edition)...

  Elizabeth Kuti

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  A haunting play about loss and grief, set in the mists of Suffolk.
  Fishskin Trousers weaves together the haunting tales of three lost people from different eras, united by the common setting of the fishing village of Orford in Suffolk, its castle and its mysterious island, Orford Ness.
  From the twelfth century, Mab gives an eyewitness account of the legendary Wild Man of Orford, caught in the nets of fishermen... Eight hundred years later, at the height of the Cold War, Ben, a young Australian scientist, hears strange noises on the Ness as he tries to fix the island's radar system. While Mog, in 2003, is faced with a heartbreaking decision...
  Suffused by the landscape and traditional folk tales of East Anglia, their echoing voices and stories reveal how deeply and intimately their lives touch each other, though decades – and even centuries – separate them.
  Elizabeth Kuti's Fishskin Trousers premiered at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2013, and was revived at Park Theatre, London, in October 2017.
  This volume also contains the short plays Enter A Gentleman and Time Spent on Trains.
  'A beautiful, looping piece, revelling in the rhythms of Suffolk speech… an engrossing, enveloping piece of writing' - The Stage
  'Entrancing... This is storytelling theatre at its simplest, and it's always measured, never showy... gradually I found myself totally immersed in these shimmering, fishy tales from the depths of time and human experience.' - Guardian
  'A fascinating and lyrical piece of writing' - Time Out

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  Zorro and the Pirate Raiders - A...

  Johnston McCulley, D. J. Arneson

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  The Pirate Raiders, with the villainous Captain Bardoso in command, are employed by the vicious Captain Ramon to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy caballero, hoping to use her to trap Zorro. Battles on land and sea, flashing swords and booming cannon explode before your very ears in this exciting audio production.

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  Early Spring

  Fay Inchfawn

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  The Vernal Equinox signals the time when the winter’s cold mantle begins to succumb to the warming influences of the oncoming spring. Fay Inchfawn (nee Elizabeth Rebecca Ward) took the springtime of 1920 as her inspiration for the bright promise of beauty and new life described in Early Spring. LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different readings of this magical work to celebrate the Vernal Equinox. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 19, 2006.(Summary by Chip)

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  Poetry of Love The - Speaking...

  John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett...

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  Love whether fleeting or of the ages, expressed with a look, a touch, or a thought is wanted by us all. 
   
  Across genders and generations love is both the glue and the accelerant of our lives. 
   
  Yet once gained we sometimes let it go without recognition of its value or fail to nourish it spiritually. Love needs feeding, needs tending. Love needs love. 
   
  In today’s easy, ‘always on’ society we wail, whine and weep and forget that accomplishment will involve work, will involve sacrifice but it brings rewards. Rewards larger than our rational understanding but instinctively safe within our souls.  And that can make us better people. To ourselves and each other. 
   
  First love can be electric and consuming. But love matures, passions turn to bonds, amour to armour, to soulmates. A parents’ love is infinite and merciful but always streaked with protection.  The march of time makes love dependable despite squabbles and bumps of heartache.  But love can be unrequited, love can break, can fail.  Love comes in all shapes and sizes, and in many combinations, for an instant and forever.   
    
  When we speak with our hearts we speak with a rarer truth that the brain can make light of, can reduce to the ephemeral, but love is our greatest ally, our surest need that we are of value to each other and our common humanity.  
   
  Sometimes love requires many things of us. To bear loss, to retreat, to compromise, to surrender but in every way, it enriches us. Sometimes not even for now but some future gain. 
   
  Our classic poets did not surrender to the logic of the group or seek advice from others quick to blame but slow to embrace.  Their legacy remains because it is true, because in that look, that touch, that thought, that display of words the heart remembers us and treasures us. 
   
  Here are words and verse of love.  For your ears, your loved one’s ears and hearts everywhere. 
  1 - The Poetry of Love. Speaking from the Heart - An introduction 
  2 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  3 - A Red Red Rose by Robert Burns 
  4 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller 
  5 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (from The Princess) by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  6 - The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe 
  7 - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale 
  8 - Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare 
  9 - Spiritual Love by Alfred Austin 
  10 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats 
  11 - Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day by William Shakespeare 
  12 - Bright Star by John Keats 
  13 - She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron 
  14 - I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  15 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  16 - The Kiss by Charlotte Dacre 
  17 - In the Safety of Your Mouth by Daniel Sheehan 
  18 - To My Dear and Loving Husband  by Anne Bradstreet 
  19 - The Good Morrow by John Donne 
  20 - Oh Lovers by Jalaluddin Rumi 
  21 - Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  22 - The Owl And The Pussycat by Edward Lear 
  23 - Longing by Matthew Arnold 
  24 - Helas! by Oscar Wilde 
  25 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe 
  26 - Remember by Christina Rossetti 
  27 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  28 - One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon The Strand by Edmund Spenser 
  29 - He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats 
  30 - Unending Love by Tagore

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  History of a Life

  Barry Cornwall

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of History of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall). This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 18th, 2009.

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  The Call

  Rupert Brooke

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Call by Rupert Brooke. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 21st, 2013.

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