Publisher: W. S. Gilbert
Of all the ships upon the blue No ship contained a better crew Than that of worthy Captain Reece, Commanding of The Mantelpiece. He was adored by all his men, For worthy Captain Reece, R.N., Did all that lay within him to Promote the comfort of his crew. If ever they were dull or sad, Their captain danced to them like mad, Or told, to make the time pass by. Droll legends of his infancy.
"Perhaps we are all unique volumes, yet it is undeniable that we are ALL living the same story. All is connected, all is YOU." - Andrea Furtick, author Can you remember back to a time of hearing beautiful lessons of wisdom wrapped within the words of poetic stories? We do, and if you don't, allow this to be a glorious first experience. The Fool's Journey and the 56 Movements of Minor Explorations is truly a captivating storybook exploring the wisdom of the mysticisms of the ancient Tarot divination system. With each page, the author so eloquently decodes each of the 79 energies that have been used for centuries (along with one special addition energy from the author herself, entitled The Supreme) and gives the reader a common understanding of not only each energy's meaning, but also demonstrates how these energies connect and align with each other to ultimately form "the Fool's journey." Narrated by the author, this audio-drama will take you through the "path of occurrences" and elegantly illustrate the positivity to be seen from it all. Originally released as a stunning indie tarot deck in 2018, called The Afro Goddess Tarot Arcanas, these "cards turned story pages" will absolutely leave you feeling both visually and mentally inspired to live your truest and most positive life journey. "All is connected. All is YOU." *Hardback (book) copies available at www.theafrogoddessconnection.comShow book
The Rubá’iyát of Omar Khayyam, in the famous translation by Edward FitzGerald, remains one of the most popular poems. It expressed the fascination of Victorian England with the Orient. Here, it forms the main work in the first half, along with other shorter poems by other leading Persian and Indian figures, including Rumi, Sa’di and Rabindranath Tagore. The second half is devoted to works written by Western poets on the theme of the East with The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, an excerpt from Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh – one of the best-sellers of the early nineteenth century.Show book
A brand spanking new bedroom farce about three couples who say what they oughtn’t, do what they shouldn’t, and deliver terrific one-liners while doing it!An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jeffrey Donovan, Richard Kind, Mandy Siegfried, Alan Mandell, Clea Lewis and Joey Slotnick.Show book
This fourth book of poems from award-winning author Robin Morgan has an almost-novelistic shape, with plot twists that are realizations of self, other, and the nature of change In this book of transitions, Robin Morgan’s poetry crosses the boundaries of age, race, culture, and gender. The lifelong love-hate passion between mother and daughter is here, as is a vivid, rhetoric-free depiction of the suffering and rage of women cross-culturally. Morgan also traces the slow dissolution of a marriage, parsed in poems of alternating hope and despair, humor and fury—and also in a tragicomic, two-character, one-act verse play, “The Duel: A Masque.” The play, which inverts the Orpheus-Eurydice myth, was performed at the Public Theater in New York City. Praised by the literary world for her technique, but dedicated to keeping her craft accessible and impassioned, Morgan takes us through inevitable deaths and resurrections of the self in pitch-perfect language shot through with dazzling imagery and irony.Show book
A deliciously wicked comedy that proves that the female of the species is not only deadlier, but funnier than the male. From the author of the West End-hit, Honour. Thirty years ago Margot Mason, pioneer of the 1970's Women's Liberation movement and fearless academic, wrote her groundbreaking work, The Cerebral Vagina. Numerous best-sellers and international adulation followed, but now she has writer's block. As she sits in her country house struggling with a deadline, in walks Molly Rivers, student, idealist and daughter of one of Margot's most dedicated followers. Initially flattered, Margot is less pleased when Molly handcuffs her to the desk and pulls a gun... 'deliriously funny... I beg you to see it' Sunday Telegraph 'a cracking piece, part hostage drama, part satire, part outrageous farce... hugely entertaining' Telegraph 'a new West End play with a seriously amusing mind of its own' Evening StandardShow book
In Gregory Leadbetter's second poetry collection, Maskwork, mystery, theatre and ritual combine to reveal rather than to disguise. The mask, in these resonant poems, acts as a way of becoming, seeing, and knowing – granting access to altered states and otherworlds hidden within and beyond ourselves. Here, language itself becomes an animating magic, connecting humans to our ecological roots. The spirit of revival, renaissance, new birth and rebirth haunts this book: and at its core, the idea of poetry itself as a form of learning – an art and a mystery – runs like a quicksilver thread throughout, between the elusive and the certain. Leadbetter's meticulously attuned lyrical poetry tells of the transformative experience of knowing, a dynamic state of being that forever alters both the knower and the known.Show book
