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  The Hour of Twilight

  George William Russell

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 different recordings of The Hour of Twilight by George William Russell, published in "Collected Poems" in 1913. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 18th, 2007.

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  Improvised Explosive Device

  Arji Manuelpillai

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  Improvised Explosive Device is a startlingly innovative exploration of extremism, hate crime and violence by poet Arji Manuelpillai. In this powerful and unsettling first collection, Manuelpillai presents a vision of the contemporary haunted by Melville's image of the whale – the terror beneath the surface of the sea. His uncompromising focus on violence is laced with gallows humour and the surreal, framed against the mundane detritus of modern life: two boys playing Mortal Kombat; a field of old trainers; the lonely glare of laptop light; a suspicious looking package in the back seat of a van.
  The poems in Improvised Explosive Device emerged through research and interviews with academics, sociologists, and former members of extremist groups and their families – from the English Defence League and the National Front to ISIS and the Tamil Tigers. These complex, unnerving texts ask a series of important questions. What drives a person to commit a radical act of violence? How is that violence mediated through screens and social media? And how does the British government police marginalised groups? Improvised Explosive Device is a brave, surprising and risk-taking book; it will change the way you look at the world.
  "Refusing glib analysis and easy answers, Improvised Explosive Device is a work of radical empathy, fuelled by honesty and compassion, both for those stirred to violence against minorities, and those who suffer from it." Rishi Dastidar
  "The project of Arji Manuelpillai's Improvised Explosive Device leans into the mighty disciplines of poetry, sociology, and reportage to formulate an arresting debut which contests the ways we're conditioned to internalise notions of terrorism, nationalism and belonging...a bold and startling new work." Anthony Anaxagorou

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  The Orchid Folios

  Mok Zining

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  “When you take an orchid out of its pot, you must first loosen the roots’ hold on the soil. Late last evening as I unravelled the braids of the shattered phalaenopsis, I saw how the ends were white and shrivelled from neglect. You have to do it gently—it’s like combing hair. I remember Mum’s fingers running through mine, and mine through hers, until the final months when all of it started to fall.” 
   
   
  A pot shatters. An arrangement falls apart. A florist finds herself amidst the scattered leaves of history. At once a poetry collection and a documentary novella, The Orchid Folios reimagines the orchid as a living, breathing document of history: a history that enmeshes the personal, colonial, linguistic, and biotechnological with the Vanda Miss Joaquim, the symbol of Singapore’s postcolonial hybridity. While the Orchid has shaped the fantastical narratives that govern our multiracial City in a Garden, it continues to shape-shift and bloom on its own terms, challenging us to imagine a decolonised Singapore. This is the organism at the heart of The Orchid Folios—by turns stark and unruly, documenting and challenging the narratives that are the roots of our national consciousness.

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  The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

  Sir Walter Raleigh

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 14, 2012.The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, sometimes called 'Her Reply' was written in response to Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". (Summary by David Lawrence)

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  Roundabout (NHB Modern Plays)

  Lluïsa Cunillé

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  A fascinating study of obsession and delusion, conversations left unfinished and people incapable of change.
  Spanish dramatist Lluïsa Cunillé's play Roundabout was first performed in this English translation by Oscar Ceballos and Mary Peate at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1997.

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  Short Poetry Collection 007

  Various Various

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  Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 007: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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