Publisher: Muswell Press
A highly personal collection of poems written by Virginia McKenna, the star of Born Free, recollecting the people, places and animals that have inspired her.
Achim Jeffers faces his most challenging mission yet. He’s a black man caught in a deadly vice. One misstep, and hard prison time will be in his future. His sworn adversaries in the FBI are in utter panic. They are begging Achim, a Counter-Racist hitman, to provide them with his expert assistance. The FBI has good reason to be so frightful. A twisted European assassin has been hired to take out a high value target in the United States. Infamous for his brutality and White Supremacist fervor, this faceless assassin is simply known as “The Tarpon”. Everything about the man and his deadly methods, are clouded in mystery. “The Tarpon” is intent on spilling blood in New Orleans. His goal is to serve the black citizens of the city, death on a cold plate. Aware of “The Tarpon’s” cruelty, yet weary of the FBI’s true intentions, Achim is forced to take a big risk in order to protect the Black Community he loves so much. He begrudgingly joins forces with the FBI and enters a global race to stop the crazed racist before he completes his grisly task. Join the manhunt and experience the intense combat as Achim Jeffers and The Tarpon trade blows, in this sequel to Josiah Starr's underground hit novel “War of The Heart”.Show book
Robert Burns like you've never heard him before. Set within modern and vivid soundscapes, this collection gives Burns' texts new resonance. From the soullessness of a call-centre through the simple joy of a baby’s nursery to the horror of the battlefields and all the way into space, this is a visceral roller-coaster through the poems and songs of Scotland’s National Bard. Produced by multi-award winning, immersive audio company Almost Tangible. Chapters: 1 - Full Burns Sound-Journey (All poems) 2 - A Man's A Man for a' That (Eilidh Loan) 3 - A Poet's Address to his Love-Begotten Daughter (Lewis Rae) 4 - Address to a Haggis (Sophia McLean) 5 - Ae Fond Kiss, and Then we Sever (Eilidh Loan) 6 - A Red Red Rose, sung (Joshua Manning, Steph MacGaraidh, Sophia McLean) 7 - A Red Red Rose, spoken (Eilidh Loan) 8 - Auld Lang Syne (Joshua Manning, Steph MacGaraidh, Sophia McLean) 9 - Belles of Mauchline/To Ruin (James Robinson/Sam Garioch) 10 - Bottle and Friend (Tom Vanson) 11 - Epitaph for a Friend (Brigit Forsyth) 12 - Gin I Were a Baron's Heir (Peter Gardiner) 13 - John Anderson, my Jo (Ross Sutherland) 14 - My Heart's in the Highlands (Ross Sutherland) 15 - Pretty Peg (Sam Garioch) 16 - Scots Wha Hae (Peter Gardiner) 17 - Sweet Afton (James Robinson) 18 - Tam O'Shanter (Steph MacGaraidh) 19 - The Bonny Earl of Murray (Brigit Forsyth) 20 - To a Louse (Joshua Manning) 21 - To a Mountain Daisy (Sophia McLean) 22 - To a Mouse (Joshua Manning) 23 - To the Toothache (Tom Vanson) 24 - Ye Banks and Braes (Tracy Wiles) Director: Carl Prekopp Sound Designer/Composer: Jon Nicholls Production Manager: Alex Lynch Exec Producer: Charlotte Melén Cover Design: Tom PrekoppShow book
“In these 101 poems Norbert Krapf explores the richness of his ancestry . . . a book that confirms Krapf’s status as one of America’s finest living poets.” —Benjamin Hedin, author of Under the Spell A collaboration born of a shared love of music, photography, poetry, and Indiana, this book celebrates the history, literature, and art that informs the present and shapes our identity. Richard Fields’s black and white photos are evocative imaginings of Norbert Krapf’s poems, visual metaphors that extend and deepen their vision. Krapf’s poems pay tribute to poets from Homer and Virgil to Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Wendell Berry, and to singer-songwriters such as Woody Guthrie and John Lennon. They also explore the poet’s German heritage, question ethnic prejudice and social conflict, and praise the natural world. The book includes a cycle of 15 poems about Bob Dylan; a public poem written in response to 9/11, “Prayer to Walt Whitman at Ground Zero”; “Back Home,” a poem reproduced in a stained glass panel at the Indianapolis airport; and ruminations on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, “Questions on a Wall.” “Pursuing a tri-fold creative concept that unites poetry, art in the form of photography, and music is certainly not a light challenge. Norbert Krapf has mastered it with remarkable virtuosity and once again reinforced his reputation as the pre-eminent German-American poet of the English language.” —Yearbook of German-American Studies “Some of Krapf’s poetry is breathtakingly moving. Most of it is very insightful . . . The way he joins history and emotion is wonderful.” —Englewood Review of BooksShow book
Sir Ian McKellen, Corin Redgrave and Derek Jacobi perform Shakespeare's historic play about Prince Hal's journey toward kingship, and his ultimate rejection of Falstaff.Show book
3 Billion Seconds, a play by Maud Dromgoole, is a hilarious, macabre love story about a pregnant couple of activists attempting to offset the carbon footprint of their unborn baby's life. It was first performed as part of the 2019 VAULT Festival, London. Also available in the collection Plays from VAULT 4.Show book
In this staggering work of documentary and poetry, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the US abandoned them at the end of the Vietnam War, many Hmong refugees recounted stories of a mysterious substance that fell from planes during their escape from Laos in the mid-1970s. This substance, known as "yellow rain," caused severe illnesses and thousands of deaths. These reports prompted an investigation into allegations that a chemical biological weapon had been used against the Hmong in breach of international treaties. A Cold War scandal erupted, wrapped in partisan debate around chemical arms development versus control. American scientists argued that yellow rain was the feces of honeybees defecating en masse—still held as the widely accepted explanation. The truth of what happened to the Hmong, to those who experienced and suffered yellow rain, has been ignored and discredited.Integrating archival research and declassified documents, Vang calls out the erasure of a history, the silencing of a people who at the time lacked the capacity and resources to defend and represent themselves. In poems that sing and lament, that contend and question, Vang restores a vital narrative in danger of being lost, and brilliantly explores what it means to have access to the truth and how marginalized groups are often forbidden that access.Show book
