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  New Adventures of Alice (version...

  John Rae

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  After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book, John Rae began imagining what that girl would have gotten up to if he had done so. Telling these stories to his children over the years, where they were enthusiastically received, he finally decided to share them with the world. And here they are! The New Adventures of Alice (Summary by Phil Chenevert)Narrator: LydiaMother: Michele EatonBetsy, Alice's Sister: Amanda FridayAlice: HailiSnipe: Shakira SearleMan in the Moon, Snowman, Snail Doorman: Anastasiia SolokhaBlackbird, Cook: Bria SnowTown Crier: Charlotte BrownThe Peevish Printer, Johnny Stout: Barry EadsBarber, Kitten, Baker, Joiner, Doctor Foster, Artist: Kimberly KrauseArchers, Grenadier, Old-Man-All-Dressed-in-Leather, King Cole: Larry WilsonPoet: Beth ThomasCaptain Tee Wee, Candlestick-Maker, Captain Swordfish: Rebecca Braunert-PlunkettMilkman, Postman, Fireman, Footman: ToddHWButcher: Arnaldo MachadoQueen: MaryankaAudio Edited By: Michele EatonThis project was proof listened by Patrick Wells

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  Hello Sunshine

  Ryan Adams

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  Poetry from “one of America’s most consistently interesting singer/songwriters” (Stephen King).   Fans who have enjoyed the lyrics and music on such albums as Cardinology, Easy Tiger, and Prisoner, or hit songs including “When the Stars Go Blue,” know that Ryan Adams is a poet at heart. In this follow-up to his first collection of poems, Infinity Blues—praised by Stephen King as “a passionate, arresting, and entertaining book of verse”—readers will discover new ideas, deeper insights, and graceful, sensual compositions that reveal another side of Ryan Adams.   “Ryan Adams writes with equal parts precision and recklessness; the blood he draws from the text is easily as unnerving as its unapologetic tenderness. He is proof that poetry will find its writer.” —Mary-Louise Parker

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  Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare

  Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)

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  The Ars Poetica, by Horace, also known as Epistula ad Pisones, is a treatise on poetry written in the form of a letter, and published around 18 B.C. In it, Horace defines and exemplifies the nature, scope and correct way of writing poetry. This work, inspired by the book of the same name by Aristotle, is one of the most influential in Latin literature, and the source of famous concepts in poetics, such as "in medias res" and "ut pictura poesis". The text itself is a poem in 476 dactilic hexameters. 
  The Carmen Saeculare, or "Song of the Ages", is a hymn written by Horace in 17 b.C. for the Ludi saeculares of the same year. It is believed that the poem was commissioned by the Emperor Augustus and sung by a choir of young men and women during the opening ceremony of the Games of the Century, a religious celebration that happened in Rome once every saeculum (century). The saeculum was considered to be the maximum length of a human life, which means the Games happened once every generation. The poem was written is nineteen sapphic stanzas, and in an elevated and religious tone. (Summary by Leni)

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  Holding the Man (NHB Modern Plays)

  Tommy Murphy

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  Based on the award-winning memoir by Timothy Conigrave, and adapted for the stage by acclaimed playwright Tommy Murphy, Holding the Man tells a remarkable true-life love story that speaks across generations, sexualities and cultures.
  The course of teenage love rarely runs smooth, but it is a white-water adventure if you are secretly gay in an all-male school in 1970s Melbourne with a crush on the captain of the football team.
  Against the odds, Tim and John develop a relationship that, for fifteen years, survives everything life throws at it - the separations, the discriminations, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses - until the only problem that love can't solve turns up to part them.
  'Tommy Murphy is a bewitching playwright of startling originality' - Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, Artistic Directors of Sydney Theatre Company
  'fresh, frank and funny... a wrenchingly moving love story I defy anyone with a pulse not to relate to' - Evening Standard
  'Compelling, wrenching… unflinching, devastating, moving and funny' - Sydney Morning Herald

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  Pigs and Dogs (NHB Modern Plays)

  Caryl Churchill

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  'You western-backed goats,
  They forced us into slavery and killed millions.
  Now they want us to accept the sinfulness of homos.
  It shall not work.'
  In 2014, Uganda passed an Anti-Homosexuality Act. This short, startling play looks at what lies behind it.
  Caryl Churchill's Pigs and Dogs premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by Dominic Cooke.

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  M Archive - After the End of the...

  Alexis Pauline Gumbs

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  Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive—the second book in a planned experimental triptych—is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M. Jacqui Alexander, and following the trajectory of Gumbs's acclaimed visionary fiction short story "Evidence," M Archive is told from the perspective of a future researcher who uncovers evidence of the conditions of late capitalism, antiblackness, and environmental crisis while examining possibilities of being that exceed the human. By exploring how Black feminist theory is already after the end of the world, Gumbs reinscribes the possibilities and potentials of scholarship while demonstrating the impossibility of demarcating the lines between art, science, spirit, scholarship, and politics.

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