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  Tender Buttons

  Gertrude Stein

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  Tender Buttons consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane, Stein's experimental use of language renders the poems unorthodox and their subjects unfamiliar.It is renowned for its Modernist approach to portraying the everyday object and has been lauded as a "masterpiece of verbal Cubism". Its first poem, "A Carafe, That Is a Blind Glass", is arguably its most famous, and is often cited as one of the quintessential works of Cubist literature.

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  Kindertransport

  Diane Samuels

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  As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many Jews tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families in the United Kingdom, while their parents stayed behind. This passage to freedom became known as Kindertransport, and is the title of Diane Samuels’ play about families, secrets, and survival.Includes a conversation with Kindertransport survivor Hilda Fogelson.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Jane Kaczmarek as HelgaHugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/ Misc.Shannon Lee Clair as EvaAngela Paton as LilMolly Quinn as FaithSusan Sullivan as EvelynDirected by Jeanie Hackett. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.

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  Long Ago

  Christina Rossetti

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Long Ago by Christina G. Rossetti. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 9, 2012.Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is perhaps best known for her long poem Goblin Market, her love poem Remember, and for the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.  (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  The Poetry of Harold Munro

  Harold Munro

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  Harold Edward Munro was born on the 14th of March 1879 at 137 chaussée de Charleroi, Saint-Gilles, Brussels. 
   
  He was educated at Radley College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. On 2nd December 1903 in Ireland Munro married Dorothy Elizabeth Browne. Unfortunately the marriage was not to last and they separated in 1908.   
   
  In 1906 his first collection of poetry, Poems, was published.  Many volumes followed but Munro was never regarded as highly as his contemporaries.  Perhaps his forays into magazines, editing and publishing and his bookshop has unfairly diminished his poetic contribution. 
   
  In 1912 he became the editor of the influential magazine, The Poetry Review, but was ousted after a year. In 1913 he founded the Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury.  From here he would also publish new volumes of poetry by himself and other writers.  With Edward Marsh he published annual volumes of Georgian Poetry in the process establishing it as a very fine poetry movement.   
   
  Munro was often tortured by his sexuality and although he married twice some of his poems reveal his truer feelings.  As the Great War smothered Europe with its monstrous destruction of a generation, the War Poets spoke. 
   
  Munro himself wrote only a few war poems but his ‘Youth in Arms’ quartet, written in the first months of the carnage, was an early attempt to explore the human psychology of soldiering and to understand how ungrudgingly youth dies. 
   
  After the war Munro continued his efforts with the Poetry Bookshop and expanded into several new projects.  He was searching both as a writer, and as a publisher, for the middle ground that was both culturally exciting and commercially worthwhile. 
   
  In his later years his mood darkened, his drinking escalated and became a real problem.  Sadly amongst the stresses and the strains he contracted tuberculosis.  
   
  Harold Edward Munro died on the 16th March 1932 aged 53.  He was cremated at Golders Green crematorium. 
   
  It was later remarked of him ‘Perhaps no one did more for the advancement of twentieth-century poetry’.

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  Short Poetry Collection 098

  Various Various

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

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  The Scorched Garden (NHB Modern...

  Juan Mayorga

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  A group of inmates has been locked up in a mental hospital since the Spanish Civil War. For forty years their only contact with the outside world has been with an elderly doctor. And then a young medical student arrives and unveils their histories and madness…
  Juan Mayorga's play The Scorched Garden was first performed in this English translation by Nick Darke at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1997.

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