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  The Playboy of the Western World...

  J. M. Synge

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  Come join me in reading the magnum opus of J.M. Synge, where a young traveler has come from out of town boasting that he's committed patricide, which, rather than ostracizing him, causes many women of the town to become morbidly curious about this young man, including the prettiest girl in town and the quite newly vivacious widow. But what happens when the supposedly dead father shows up in town to whoop his son into submission? Find out as we explore the dynamics of bad boy charisma and righteous paternal fury is this a hilarious romp through the Irish Countryside.

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  Born in the USA - The New...

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,...

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  1 - Born in the USA - The New England Poets - An Introduction 
  2 - June by Horatio Alger Jr 
  3 - On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, January 14th 1807 by Joel Barlow 
  4 - America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates 
  5 - If You Could Come by Katharine Lee Bates 
  6 - Above the Battle by Katherine Lee Bates 
  7 - Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves by William Stanley Braithwaite 
  8 - A Hymn of the Sea by William Cullen Bryant 
  9 - Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant 
  10 - November by William Cullen Bryant 
  11 - I Would Not Paint a Picture by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - I Have a Bird in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  13 - The Name of it is Autumn by Emily Dickinson 
  14 - Some Too Fragile for Winter Winds by Emily Dickinson 
  15 - I Went to Heaven by Emily Dickinson 
  16 - Credo by W E B Du Bois 
  17 - Teach Me I Am Forgotten by the Dead by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  18 - Waves by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  19 - Culture by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  20 - Berrying by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  21 - Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  22 - Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  23 - The Black Finger by Angelina Weld Grimke 
  24 - The Eyes of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  25 - In the Reading Room of the British Museum by Louise Imogen Guiney 
  26 - Address to the Moon by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  27 - The Ocean by Nathamiel Hawthorne 
  28 - Go to the Grave by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  29 - The Old Man of the Sea by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  30 - Prologue by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  31 - Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  32 - A Calender of Sonnets - December by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  33 - A Calender of Sonnets - January by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  34 - A Calendar of Sonnets - September by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  35 - Octobers Bright Blue Weather by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  36 - In London Town by Walter Learned 
  37 - The Slave's Singing at Midnight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  38 - Song of Haiwatha (Extract) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  39 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  40 - Loss and Gain by Henry Wadswoth Longfellow 
  41 - A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  42 - Despair by H P Lovecraft 
  43 - Sunset by H P Lovecraft 
  44 - Ode for July 4th 1917 by H P Lovecraft 
  45 - Pacifist War Song - 1917 by H P Lovecraft 
  46 - Providence by H P Lovecraft 
  47 - In a Garden by Amy Lowell 
  48 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell 
  49 - Monadnock in Early Spring by Amy Lowell 
  50 - The Crescent Moon by Amy Lowell 
  51 - March Evening by Amy Lowell 
  52 - The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell 
  53 - Above and Below by James Russell Lowell 
  54 - Of the Dawn of Freedom by James Russell Lowell 
  55 - To H W L on His Birthday 27th February 1867 by James Russell Lowell 
  56 - Slaves by James Russell Lowell 
  57 - The Red Cross Nurses by Thomas L Masson 
  58 - A December Day by Robert Fuller Murray 
  59 - Warren's Address by John Pierpoint 
  60 - The Economy of Slavery by John Pierpoint 
  61 - Hymn for the First of August by John Pierpoint 
  62 - Prayer for the Slave by John Pierpoint 
  63 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato 
  64 - Reflections, Written on Visiting the Grave of a Venerated Friend by Ann Plato 
  65 - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe 
  66 - Dreamland by Edgar Allan Poe 
  67 - The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe 
  68 - Sonnet - Silence by Edgar Allan Poe 
  69 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe 
  70 - Luke Havergal by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  71 - Mr Flood's Party by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  72 - The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  73 - The Flying Dutchman by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  74 - In No

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  Practicing Silence - New and...

  Bonnie Thurston, David Steindl-Rast

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  Although the literary form is poetry, this is a book about the spiritual life. Think of it as an armchair visit to a monastery. Focused around monastic themes, it speaks to the spiritual seeker and curious bystander alike by presenting a range of spiritual experiences in accessible language. The poems are grouped according to a monastic logic. A section on visits to monasteries is followed by poems on questions of vocation or spiritual calling that such visits often raise. Then the reader will follow the horarium, or monastic day, and encounter some fruit of lectio divina, the practice of prayerful reading of scripture. The poems on interior prayer will speak to contemplatives in any religious tradition. The collection closes by exploring the experience of anchorites and solitaries.

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  Mingle

  Caleb Parkin

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  Caleb Parkin's dark and mischievous second poetry collection Mingle stirs up the toxicities between landscapes, ecosystems and bodies, in poems bubbling over with hyper-wealth and haunted by tarnished ideals. Through creatures, compounds and chemicals, the poems probe what makes up our world's matter, and how we use it for good or ill. From gold to hydrocarbons, radioactive gardening to viral memes, the resulting mixture is a potent poetic cocktail…
  Here, intimate connections and grand narratives are unsettled; we are implicated in prickly histories and weird futures and the natural world reminds us of its unruliness – as well as our own. Reflections warp in noxious ponds and voices distort and echo in uncanny landscapes. At times hyperreal and surreal, adventurous and technicolour, Mingle fizzes with the possibilities of queered language and altered states of poetic form.

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  Īnangahua Gold

  Kathleen Gallagher

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  This historical novel, told in two stories 20 twenty years apart, explores the relationships that unfold on the West Coast of Te Wai Pounamu New Zealand, in the mid-19th century, as isolated, difficult to access parts of the country are entered by European explorers guided by local Maori. 
  Set in the 19th Century, it plaits together as a flax-root narrative prose and poetic imagery to tell a timeless love story. It links people with the natural environment, and blends languages, cultures, shared endeavour and compassion in a vivid multi-cultural epiphany of life in Aotearoa-New Zealand. - John Weir 
  Kathleen Gallagher is a poet, playwright, filmmaker and novelist. She received the New Zealand Playwrights Award in 1993, and the Sonja Davies Peace Award in 2004 for the film Tau Te Mauri Breath Of Peace. She has authored three collections of poetry, 16 plays, six feature films, and two novels.

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  More Patina than Gleam

  Jane Aldous

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  This series of poems, based in post war Edinburgh, tell the story of Linda, fleeing with her 11 year old daughter from England and an abusive relationship. In hiding as a lady's companion in one of the city's suburbs, mother and daughter settle into their new life in Elsie's rackety house, and encounter a variety of characters who will change their lives forever.
  More Patina than Gleam celebrates outsiders getting by in hard times – the day to day grind of cleaning a house, periods, prejudice, ageing, sexuality and falling in and out of love. The poems are not autobiographical, but Jane Aldous, whose own mother used to say that she could have run away with Jane when she was a baby, has gently torn scraps from her own life to add to the collage.

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