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  The House by the Side of the Road

  Sam Walter Foss

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 15, 2012.Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet whose works included The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American.Foss used to write a poem a day for the newspapers, and his five volumes of collected poetry are of the frank and homely “common man” variety.Longtime baseball announcer Ernie Harwell alluded to one of Foss's poems whenever he described a batter taking a called third strike: "He stood there like the house by the side of the road and watched it go by."( Summary from Wikipedia )

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  Robert Browning's Dramatic...

  Robert Browning, Adriel Brandt

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  A selection of Robert Browning's dramatic monologues. 
  In "My Last Duchess," an entitled nobleman shows off a portrait of his late wife. 
  In "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," a frustrated monk dwells on a petty rivalry. 
  In "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's," a dying man instructs his family in how to elevate his final resting place above that of his rival's. 
  In "Porphyria's Lover," a sinister narrator considers how to preserve the pure beauty of his trusting partner. 
  "Bishop Blougram's Apology" is a lengthy reflection on faith, doubt, and the pursuit of contentment.

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  The Poetry of Laurence Binyon

  Laurence Binyon

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  Robert Laurence Binyon, CH, was born on 10th August 1869 in Lancaster in Lancashire, England to Quaker parents, Frederick Binyon and Mary Dockray. 
  He studied at St Paul's School, London before enrolling at Trinity College, Oxford, to read classics. 
  Binyon’s first published work was Persephone in 1890.  As a poet, his output was not prodigious and, in the main, the volumes he did publish were slim, but his reputation was of the highest order. When the Poet Laureate, Alfred Austin, died in 1913, Binyon was considered alongside Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling for the post which was eventually given to Robert Bridges. 
  Binyon played a pivotal role in helping to establish the modernist School of poetry and introduced imagist poets such as Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) to East Asian visual art and literature. Most of his career was spent at The British Museum where he produced many books particularly on the art of the Far East. 
  Moved and shaken by the onset of the World War I and its military tactics of young men slaughtered to hold or gain a few yards of shell-shocked mud Binyon wrote his seminal poem For the Fallen. It became an instant classic, turning moments of great loss into a National and human tribute. 
  After the war, he returned to the British Museum and wrote numerous books on art; especially on William Blake, Persian and Japanese art. 
  In 1931, his two volume Collected Poems appeared and in 1933, he retired from the British Museum. 
  Between 1933 and 1943, Binyon published his acclaimed translation of Dante's Divine Comedy in an English version of terza rima. 
  During the Second World War Binyon wrote another poetic masterpiece 'The Burning of the Leaves', about the London Blitz. 
  Robert Laurence Binyon died in Dunedin Nursing Home, Bath Road, Reading, on March 10th, 1943 after undergoing an operation. 
   This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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  The Poetry of Christina Georgina...

  Christina Georgina Rossetti

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  Christina was born in London in 1830 one of four children who were all to become artists and writers.  Educated at home, her life was filled with the Italian influences of her Father and the wide ranging interests of her mother.  She began to write at age 12 as her Fathers health broke and the family’s descended to near poverty.  She first published aged 18 and over the following decade her writing was to flourish and in 1860 her most famous work Goblin Market was released and her reputation was set.  A sufferer from Graves disease from the 1870’s she also developed breast cancer which subsequently recurred and was to cause her death in 1894.  She is buried in Highgate Cemetery.Our poems are; Christina Georgina Rossetti - An Introduction, A Birthday, A Pause Of Thought, A Study, A Soul, Sonnets Are Full Of Love,  Dreamland; Echo, By The Sea, Ferry Me Across The Water, Frog & Toad, If A Mouse Could Fly, The City Mouse And The Country Mouse, Lambs At Play,  A Spring Carol, In The Willow Shade,  Summer,  Summer Is Ended, If All Were Rain And Never Sun, An October Garden, Christmas Eve, Good Friday, A Years Windfalls, How Many Seconds In A Minute, Who Has Seen The World, Wife To Husband, Bitter For Sweet, If Stars Dropped Out Of Heaven, An Emerald Is As Green As Grass, Is The Moon Tired, Goblin Market, In The Bleak Midwinter, Winter - My Secret, January Cold Desolate, After This The Judgement, After Death, Sappho, Goodbye In Fear Goodbye In Sorrow,  Dead Before Death, Life And Death, Remember & Requiem. Among our readers are David Shaw-Parker and Ghizela Rowe.

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  Dream Pill (NHB Modern Plays)

  Rebecca Prichard

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  Two children forced into prostitution narrate their harrowing story.
  This play was originally published in the volume Charged, a collection of plays about the lives of women in the criminal justice system, and was commissioned and premiered by Clean Break, a theatre and education company working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system.

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  Staying Alive (NHB Modern Plays)

  Kat Roberts

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  Mary had a son, now her son is dead, and that is all. But her friend Jenn is hosting a dinner party, just like before, a chance to catch up. No pressure. Nothing big. Just old friends. It would be great to see you. If you're free. If you're ready.
  
  
  Darkly funny, and achingly tender, Kat Roberts' play Staying Alive is about the death of a child; an exploration of love, honesty, family and grief; about how in the wake of any irreparable loss, we find ways to connect and survive.
  
  
  Staying Alive was produced by Blackshaw Theatre Company and first performed at the Pleasance, London, in 2015.

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