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  Siarad - Poetry and Prose

  Caroline Reid

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  Award-winning writer and celebrated spoken-word performer Caroline Reid plumbs the depths of intimate human relationships in this bold and energetic collection of poetry and stories.  
  Siarad, a Welsh word meaning to talk or speak, is a 34-track audiobook that pushes the limits of the form. The work pulses with images of stars and stray dogs, highways with no horizon and mothers with fading memories. It’s a book of social and cultural commentary with poems about life and death and love. There are betrayal stories, surreal stories and lush stories that luxuriate in language, all with a consistent element of surprise.  
  Reid’s voice weaves in and out of an unconventional soundscape designed and produced by Jeffrey Zhang. The flow packs a punch. It’s an emotional roller coaster, which will make you laugh out loud and cry in the one sitting, and have you wanting to listen to it all over again. 
   Critic Reviews: 
   “Psychedelic. Startling. Alive. This book takes you to places you never imagined you’d go, and some places you’ve already been, but thought you were alone when you were there. Caroline Reid is a fellow traveller in a chaotic world. She tells a woman’s story, but it is the story of us all.” (Donna Ward, She I Dare Not Name: A Spinster’s Meditations on Life) 
  “The singing energy of Welsh literature is here grafted onto Australian colloquial informality and laid-back irony. The poems, prose poems and flash fictions in this collection demand to be read aloud to get the full effect.” (Kerryn Goldsworthy, Sydney Morning Herald) 
  “A great introduction to poetry and flash fiction for the uninitiated. Reid’s writing is satisfyingly complex, without being obscure, and relatable without being simplistic.” 
  (Tracey Korsten, Glam Adelaide) 
   

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  Ramayana

  Válmíki

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  A lyrical retelling of one of the most important Hindu texts.

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  I Like to Wash My Face with...

  Saumitra Saxena, Dhiraj Singh

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  Introducing Saumitra’ s poetry to an English relishing readership is like reliving its flavor a few years ago in Hindi when these very poems caught the print eye of an eminent publisher, Bharatiya Gyanpith. Saumitra’s selection was not only published from there but also bestowed the ‘Navlekhan Award,’ and these poems have been expertly translated by Dhiraj Singh, who gives a Midas touch of his pen when moving from one language from another. 
  Saumitra is, by profession, an engineer and by passion, a poet. He has moved away from India, but his sensibility is filled with boyhood memories and tender moments of his youth. With an economy of words, he expresses himself in short verses that look like a map of his moods. 
  All aspects of nature find expression with Saumitra so much so that he emerges as a friend of live landscapes, changing skies and the smell of raw mangoes. He has a Wordsworthian involvement with nature and with the simple sweet voice of humanity. 
  The translation by Dhiraj Singh is equally sensitive and soulful, conveying the author’s creativity convincingly. To quote the very first poem- 
  ‘Every tree 
  Calls out to her 
  But she chooses 
  Her tree and sits on it 
  She chooses and sits 
  And that is all 
  There is to it.’ 
  At first sight, these may appear to be single –focus expressions, but page after page you come across sensitive lines like these, you are bound to feel involved. 
  ‘I am a bird 
  Let me laugh 
  In your skies 
  Have fun in the furrows of 
  Your fields 
  And your shimmering 
  Irrigation ponds’ 
  Poetry is not a sealed-off entity of nature alone. We live in an urban world, and our concerns are city-bred. Then what impacts our young poet to focus on greener landscapes. Actually, this appears to be Saumitra’s retort to the mechanized, mundane metro culture that leaves us myopic to personal pleasures and the bounty of nature. 
  Mamta Kalia

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  Romeo and Juliet

  William Shakespeare

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  The immortal tale of star-crossed lovers in a newly updated eBook edition featuring hundreds of hypertext links, scene-by-scene summaries, and more. 
   
  In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud. In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this exquisitely poetic play has become the quintessential story of young love. 
   
  This authoritative eBook edition includes: 
   
  -The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference 
   
  -Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation 
   
  -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play 
   
  -Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently linked to the text of the play 
   
  -Scene-by-scene plot summaries 
   
  -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases 
   
  -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language 
   
  -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play 
   
  -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books 
   
  -An annotated guide to further reading 
   
  -And more

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  The Best of Robert Service

  Robert Service, Harriett Shlossberg

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  This new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service, and is narrated by Michael Puttonen. While living in Whitehorse, Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee, and other well-known poems. He wrote and published into his mid-eighties. He was quoted as saying, I just go for a walk and come back with a poem in my pocket.Gaiety, humor, nostalgia, and pathos fill every page, along with the genuine Service ring of virility which has made his verse loved throughout the English reading world.

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― Christmas Day...

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic.  Christmas Day - An Introduction  
  2 - Wondrous Sight For Men and Angels by Ann Griffiths 
  3 - Angels From the Realms of Glory by James Montgomery 
  4 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere 
  5 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton 
  6 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale 
  7 - A Carol. I by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland 
  8 - A Christmas Carol by Samual Taylor Coleridge 
  9 - Carol by Ben Jonson 
  10 - In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  11 - Go, Tell It on the Mountain by John Wesley Work Jr 
  12 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy 
  13 - We Three Kings of Orient Are by John Henry Hopkins Jnr

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