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  Begin With A Question

  Marjorie Maddox

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  Begin with a Question explores how the life of faith is a continuous voyage, launched anew each bright day of the spirit or dark night of the soul. This is a book of contemplation and motion, a journey— often in stops and starts— toward the Divine, a pilgrimage paved with prayer, praise, pause, penitence, and (of course) questions. Urgent and universal, joyful or joyless, tinged with doubt or rinsed with hope, here are honest queries that probe, lift, and lead to discovery. Begin with a Question keeps us moving, seeking, reaching, lifting us out of ourselves to something beyond. Using a variety of fixed forms and free verse, the poet examines our relationship to the one who asks, " Who do you say that I am?" A book for seekers, doubters, and believers alike, these poems bring us face to face with anguish, anger, awe, and adoration. They give us permission not to demand answers, but to follow the questions that lead to the Alpha and Omega, to the I AM that keeps us spiraling along this twisting path toward God.
  
  
  Begin with a Question is published under Paraclete Press's Iron Pen imprint. In the book of Job, a suffering man pours out his anguish to his Maker. From the depths of his pain, he reveals a trust in God's goodness that is stronger than his despair, giving humanity some of the most beautiful and poetic verses of all time. Paraclete's Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.

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  Top 10 Poets The - Died in World...

  Wilfred Owen

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
   
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
   
  It is at first difficult to comprehend that the carnage and slaughter of War could yield some of our greatest poetry.  Harder still that in four years of horror humanity was able to destroy and create on such a scale.  These 10 poets and their verses speak for everyone. 
  1 - The Top 10 Poets - Died in WWI - An Introduction 
  2 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen 
  3 - Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen 
  4 - Soldier's Dream by Wilfred Owen 
  5 - Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen 
  6 - Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen 
  7 - 1914 by Rupert Brooke - Peace, Safety, The Dead,  The Dead & The Soldier 
  8 - The Night Journey by Rupert Brooke 
  9 - The Old Vicarage of Grantchester by Rupert Brooke 
  10 - Libido by Rupert Brooke 
  11 - Desertion by Rupert Brooke 
  12 - No One Cares Less Than I (Bugle Call) by Edward Thomas 
  13 - A Private by Edward Thomas 
  14 - This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong by Edward Thomas 
  15 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas 
  16 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas 
  17 - God by Isaac Rosenberg 
  18 - Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg 
  19 - In the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg 
  20 - Spring 1916 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  21 - Daughters of War by Isaac Rosenberg 
  22 - The Dying Patriot by James Elroy Flecker 
  23 - I Rose From Dreamless Hours by James Elroy Flecker 
  24 - No Coward's Song by James Elroy Flecker 
  25 - Destroyer of Ships, Men, Cities by James Elroy Flecker 
  26 - Don Juan in Hell by James Elroy Flecker  
  27 - Such Such Is Death by Charles Sorley 
  28 - A Call to Action by Charles Sorley 
  29 - When You See Millions Of The Mouthless Dead By Charles Sorley 
  30 - To Germany by Charles Sorley 
  31 - East Kennet Church At Evening by Charles Sorley 
  32 - An Attempt at a City Sunset by Francis Ledwidge 
  33 - Ireland by Francis Ledwidge 
  34 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 
  35 - Growing Old by Francis Ledwidge 
  36 - A Soldier's Grave by Francis Ledwidge 
  37 - In Flanders Fields by John McCrae 
  38 - Disarmament by John McCrae 
  39 - Anarchy by John McCrae 
  40 - The Pilgrims by John McCrae 
  41 - A Song of Comfort by John McCrae 
  42 - Champagne 1914-1915 by Alan Seeger 
  43 - Paris by Alan Seeger 
  44 - Sonnet 14 by Alan Seeger 
  45 - Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France by Alan Seeger 
  46 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger 
  47 - The Battle at Saarburg by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  48 - Prayer Before Battle by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  49 - The Trip to the Mental Hospital by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  50 - Moonscape by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  51 - Soldiers' Songs by Alfred Lichtenstein

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  MALAPROP: plays

  Carys D. Coburn

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  MALAPROP Theatre is an award-winning collective of Irish theatremakers, who seek to challenge, delight and speak to the world we live in (even when imagining different ones). This volume brings together four of their bold, playful and genre-spanning plays, all premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival between 2017 and 2023.
  In Everything Not Saved, ex-lovers argue about when they were happiest, police officers rewrite history, and Rasputin dances like no one's watching. Oh, and also the Queen is there.
  Before You Say Anything questions how everyone can be safe at the same time. A time-travelling set of interweaving stories exploring injustice, freedom and bravery.
  Where Sat the Lovers is about codes, hallucinations, Isaac Newton, war crimes, seeing meaning where there's none and vice versa. In an age of misinformation, how do you know if you know the right things?
  HOTHOUSEtackles climate breakdown with big ideas, a lot of laughs, and some truly grotesque cabaret numbers. Cruise ships, horny/murderous songbirds, fecund/fatalistic rabbits, loving/bruising parents and Minnie Riperton all make an appearance in this play with songs, which asks if things can ever get better.
  MALAPROP Theatre are Carys D. Coburn, John Gunning, Breffni Holahan, Molly O'Cathain, Maeve O'Mahony, Claire O'Reilly and Carla Rogers.
  'MALAPROP have quickly distinguished themselves as one of Ireland's most exciting emerging companies' Ruth McGowan, Director, Dublin Fringe Festival (2018-23)
  'A company of real ambition. One which is using theatrical form to grapple with the complexities of a world where the ground is constantly shifting beneath our feet and where what we believe can be recalibrated not just on a daily basis but minute by minute' Lyn Gardner, Stage Door
  'Reminiscent of early Caryl Churchill... this is thinking theatre at its best'Irish Independent

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  Born in the USA - Exploring...

  Emma Lazarus, Alan Seeger,...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. 
   
  The United States may be many things: the world’s policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. 
   
  Little wonder that’s its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art.  Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up.   
   
  New York state is more often overshadowed by its energetic and overwhelming five boroughs of its namesake city.  But among its other cities, towns and countryside is a veritable who’s who of classic poets including Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Alan Seeger, Herman Melville and Philip Freneau.  Their words and verse record and reveal a wide range of topics and subjects as they focus their poetic talents on the State of their birth.

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  Silas Marner

  George Eliot

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  In the town of Reveloe, there lives a man called Silas Marner. A strange little man, a weaver by trade, and seen with suspicion by the other villagers. He's been beset by bad luck all his life. Cast out of his simple religious life in Lantern Yard, and then returns home to find his money stolen. But then, on new years day, his luck changes when he finds a small child sitting before his hearth...  
  Published in 1861, this was the third novel by George Elliot, and delves into the topics of religion, industrialisation and community, and was praised at the time for its realism.  
  Narrated by Michael Ward.

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  Frankenstein Retold Inclusively

  Mary Shelley, Kath Shone

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  Frankenstein was written in the Romantic literary period. The literary trend of the early 1800s produced poems that described how nature elevated and blissed human minds. Most literary work at this time was written and published by men. 
  In amongst these ecstatic reveries of nature, the 19 year old, Mary Shelley wedged the chilling story of Frankenstein into the literary landscape and our minds forever. 
  Her story filled an empty space in humankind's collective consciousness. That empty space was waiting for this story of over-reaching scientific madness. 
  This version of Frankenstein is a translation not an abridged telling. I have translated the Old Romantic era English into easy-to-read accessible English. 
  • The same characters say the same things at the same times in the story. 
  • Plot point for plot point the story stays the same. 
  • The themes are all preserved. 
  • The transcendent and brutal settings of the story are still on the pages. 
  • References to poems and other literature are explained. 
  • Supplementary information supports understanding of the text. 
  This book is for 
  • humans who like to read archetypal literature in easy-to-read language, 
  • neuro-diverse readers, 
  • young readers, 
  • English second language speakers, 
  • English literature students who need a study guide to unravel the original Frankenstein. 
  • anyone (I think that's most of us) who finds old English inaccessible but would like to read Frankenstein. 
  This accessible Frankenstein is part of Inclusive Books (Inc!Bs) journey to rewrite history inclusively.

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