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  The Day-Breakers

  Michael Fraser

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  Saturated with locutions lifted from the late 19th century, The Day-Breakers deeply conceives of what African Canadian soldiers experienced before, during, and in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War.
  		 
  “It is not wise to waste the life / Against a stubborn will. / Yet would we die as some have done. / Beating a way for the rising sun” wrote Arna Bontemps. In The Day-Breakers, poet Michael Fraser imagines the selflessness of Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the American Civil War, of whom hundreds were African-Canadian, fighting for the freedom of their brethren and the dawning of a new day. Brilliantly capturing the rhythms of their voices and the era in which they lived and fought, Fraser’s The Day-Breakers is an homage to their sacrifice and an unforgettable act of reclamation: the restoration of a language, and a powerful new perspective on Black history and experience.

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  How We Begin (NHB Modern Plays)

  Elisabeth Lewerenz

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  Helen and Diana are perfect for each other: they've both got good degrees, busy jobs and nice flats. There's just one small problem – Diana's got a boyfriend.
  Elisabeth Lewerenz's play How We Begin is a tender exploration of love, queerness and identity. It was premiered at VAULT Festival, London, 2023.

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  The Poetry of Dogs

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning,...

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  Man’s best friend. An always faithful ally. 
   
  Whether the dog is domesticated as a pet and there to enjoy life with a family or as a work-dog herding sheep, helping to hunt, police or guard, the dog has proved time and time again to have many invaluable uses.   
   
  They come in all shapes and sizes from sought after breeds to lowly mongrels each with an array of qualities that give them distinct personalities.   
   
  From earliest times dogs have been able to find a unique place fulfilling the needs of their keepers and often there is equal devotion from master to servant.  A dog’s life no longer has to have negative connotations as so many pooches are loved, extravagantly fed, groomed, petted and pawed over, all perhaps more than our fellow man.   
   
  Dogs were even worshipped as deities in Mesopotamian times and across several cultures and civilisations including Hindu, Chinese and Greek, they are the helpers, the watchers or guardians of sacred or sensitive sites.  
   
  Between then and now poets have written verse, both serious and humorous, in attempts to keep a poetic track both of feelings and as a tribute to our four-legged friends and their adventures. 
  1 - The Poetry of Dogs - An Introduction 
  2 - A Friendly Welcome by Lord Byron 
  3 - A Popular Personage At Home by Thomas Hardy 
  4 - The Power of the Dog by Rudyard Kiping 
  5 - Verse for a Certain Dog by Dorothy Parker 
  6 - The Best Friend by Meribah Abbott 
  7 - The Joy of a Dog by Edgar Albert Guest 
  8 - Dog by Harold Munro 
  9 - My Comforter by Anonymous 
  10 - Four Feet. 'The Woman in His Life' by Rudyard Kipling 
  11 - The Dog and His Master by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 
  12 - Little Lost Pup by Arthur Guiterman 
  13 - A Little Dog That Wags His Tail by Emily Dickinson 
  14 - The Hairy Dog by Herbert Asquith 
  15 - Dogs and Weather by Winifred Welles 
  16 - Incident. Charactristic of a Favourite Dog Which Belonged to a Friend of the Author by William Wordsworth 
  17 - Confessions of a Glutton by Don Marquis 
  18 - The Fable of the Shepherd and Wolf by John Gay 
  19 - On a Spaniel Called 'Beau', Killing a Young Bird by William Cowper 
  20 - Beau's Reply by William Cowper 
  21 - Contentment by Burges Johnson wav 
  22 - The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog by Anonymous 
  23 - The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat by Eugene Field 
  24 - How the Feud Started by Arthur Guiterman 
  25 - Tray by Robert Browning 
  26 - The Dog and the Water Lily. No Fable by William Cowper 
  27 - The Irish Greyhound by Katherine Phillips 
  28 - The Fable of the Mastiff by John Gay 
  29 - The Dog in the Manger by Aphra Behn 
  30 - Towser, A True Tale, 20th July 1806 by Robert Tannahill 
  31 - The Dog of St Bernard's by Caroline Fry Wilson 
  32 - Sonnet - To Tartar, A Terrier Beauty by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 
  33 - Tobias's Dog by Mary Howitt 
  34 - I Started Early – Took my Dog  by Emily Dickinson 
  35 - Canis Major by Robert Frost 
  36 - Man and Dog by Edward Thomas 
  37 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell 
  38 - So This Is How I Turned into a Dog by Vladamir Mayakovsky 
  39 - The Dogs by Arthur Symons 
  40 - To a Black Greyhound by Julian Grenfell 
  41 - An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith 
  42 - The Dog Tupman by Stella Benson 
  43 - Upon His Spaniel Tracy by Robert Herrick 
  44 - To Rollo by Kenneth Grahame 
  45 - Ruby by Edward Lear 
  46 - To Flush, My Dog by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  47 - Kaiser Dead by Matthew Arnold 
  48 - Epitaph to a Dog by Lord Byron 
  49 - Last Words To A Dumb Friend by Thomas Hardy

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  Charles Dickens 200th...

  Charles Dickens

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  The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters, magazine articles and speeches - and each volume will be a pot pourri of all genres and periods of his writing. This first volume was released on Dickens' 200th birthday, February 7th 2012 and further volumes followed during the anniversary year.Volume 1 includes short stories including, amongst others, The Holly Tree, the first part of Holiday Romance and three pieces from Mugby Junction.Some items requiring a little further explanation are Prince Bull, written as a fairy tale, but in reality a scathing attack on the Government's handling of supplies to the troops in the Crimean War; Old Lamps for New Ones in which Dickens makes clear his low opinion of the ethos of the Pre-Raphaelite school of painting; and Frauds on the Fairies, a polemic against George Cruikshank's bowdlerisation of fairy tales for moralistic purposes, and the interesting revelation that 'product placement' is by no means a new phenomenon. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)

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  From From - Poems

  Monica Youn

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  LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY"Where are you from . . . ? No—where are you from from?" It's a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you'll never belong here, you're a perpetual foreigner, you'll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat.Monica Youn's From From brilliantly evokes the conflicted consciousness of deracination. If you have no core of "authenticity," no experience of your so-called homeland, how do you piece together an Asian American identity out of Westerners' ideas about Asians? Your sense of yourself is part stereotype, part aspiration, part guilt. In this dazzling collection, one sequence deconstructs the sounds and letters of the word "deracinations" to create a sonic landscape of micro- and macroaggressions, assimilation, and self-doubt. A kaleidoscopic personal essay explores the racial positioning of Asian Americans and the epidemic of anti-Asian hate. Several poems titled "Study of Two Figures" anatomize and dissect the Asian other: Midas the striving, nouveau-riche father; Dr. Seuss and the imaginary daughter Chrysanthemum-Pearl he invented while authoring his anti-Japanese propaganda campaign; Pasiphaë, mother of the minotaur, and Sado, the eighteenth-century Korean prince, both condemned to containers allegorical and actual.

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  But Not For Me

  Keith Reddin

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  Keith Reddin's examination of the early career of Richard Nixon. Set in a suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel, a paranoid Dick Nixon is an idealistic young congressman who is ambivalent about resorting to a monumentally underhanded “dirty trick”. This was orchestrated by Nixon's conniving campaign official Roy Day against his Democratic opponent, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas—the so-called 'Pink Lady'. Nixon's victory launches his career as a politician. A Goodman Theatre co-production.  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:  Timothy Carhart as Nixon Harry Groener as Melvyn Gary Houston as Roy Leslie Lyles as Helen David Shapiro as Stan  Directed by Michael Maggio. Recorded before a live audience at the DoubleTree Guest Suites, Chicago in October of 1998.

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