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  Temple (NHB Modern Plays)

  Steve Waters

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  On 15 October 2011 Occupy London makes camp outside St Paul's Cathedral. On 21 October 2011 a building that had kept open through floods, the Blitz and terrorist threats closes its doors. On 28 October City of London initiates legal action against Occupy to begin removing them from outside the Cathedral...
  Steve Waters' play is a fictional account of these events, set in the heart of a very British crisis - a crisis of conscience, a crisis of authority and a crisis of faith.
  Temple was premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in May 2015 in a production starring Simon Russell Beale, directed by Howard Davies.
  'A triumph... [Goes] behind the head-lines, and closed ecclesiastical doors, to produce a riveting drama that unpicks the institutional and psychological turmoil the [Occupy London] saga caused' - Daily Telegraph
  'Waters takes real figures and real events and transforms them into a fictional account that plays like High Noon... 90 minutes of barbed politesse that never lets up... rich and ambiguous and funny and fundamental... quietly stunning... a marvellous show' - The Times

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  Limehouse (NHB Modern Plays)

  Steve Waters

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  A divisive left-wing leader at the helm of the Labour Party. A Conservative prime minister battling with her cabinet. An identity crisis on a national scale. This is Britain 1981.
  One Sunday morning, four prominent Labour politicians – Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and David Owen – gather in private at Owen's home in Limehouse, East London. They are desperate to find a political alternative. Should they split their party, divide their loyalties, and risk betraying everything they believe in? Would they be starting afresh, or destroying forever the tradition that nurtured them?
  Steve Waters' thrilling drama takes us behind closed doors to imagine the personal conflicts behind the making of political history. Limehouse premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2017, directed by Polly Findlay. It is a fictionalised account of real events, and it is not endorsed by the individuals portrayed.

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  Fifty Shades of July - 50 of the...

  Walt Whitman, William Blake,...

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  The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar saunters into mid-summer.  Temperatures rise still further.  The landscape may wilt under oppressive heat but is still a spectacle of colour and structure that only Mother Nature has the resources for. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of July - An Introduction 
  2 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman 
  3 - An Afternoon in July by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon 
  4 - I Saw England - July Night by Ivor Gurney 
  5 - A Soldiers Cemetery by John William Streets (Killed and Missing in Action on 1st July 1916 Aged 31) 
  6 - July 2nd 1863 by Tom Reynolds 
  7 - Fourth of July by Julia A Moore 
  8 - July 4th 1857 by Alfred Gibbs Campbell 
  9 - America, From The National Ode July 4th 1876 by James Bayard Taylor 
  10 - 4th July 1882, Malines, Midnight by James Kenneth Stephen 
  11 - Ode For the 4th of July by James Monroe Whitfield 
  12 - Ode For July 4th 1917 by H P Lovecraft 
  13 - Broadway, New York, July 1916 by George Sterling 
  14 - London in July by Amy Levy 
  15 - St Martin's Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  16 - Between the Dusk of Summer by William Ernest Henley 
  17 - In This Summer by Daniel Sheehan 
  18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare 
  19 - A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly 
  20 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  21 - The Sweets of the Rose  by Hafiz 
  22 - The Rose by John Cournos 
  23 - The Secret Rose by William Butler Yeats 
  24 - The Forest Path by Lucy Maud Montgomery 
  25 - Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats 
  26 - Sailing to Byzantium by W B Yeats 
  27 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  28 - On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats 
  29 - Clouds by Mirabai 
  30 - Breton Afternoon by Ernest Christopher Dowson 
  31 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen 
  32 - How the Old Mountains Drip With Sunset by Emily Dickinson 
  33 - The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  34 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford 
  35 - July 9th 1872 by Abram Joseph Ryan 
  36 - On Leaving Ireland, July 14th 1916 by Tom Kettle 
  37 - On My Sons Return Out of England July 17th 1661 by Anne Bradstreet 
  38 - Sonnet July 18th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles 
  39 - Verses Upon the Burning of Our House July 18th 1666 by Anne Bradstreet 
  40 - Written in July by Samuel Rogers 
  41 - Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  42 - The School Boy by William Blake 
  43 - Answer July by Emily Dickinson 
  44 - Towser, a True Tale, 20th July 1806 by Robert Tannahill 
  45 - Summer Dawn by William Morris 
  46 - Summer by Alexander Pope 
  47 - A Night Rain in Summer by James Henry Leigh Hunt 
  48 - Summer Night by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  49 - Sonnet at Dover Cliffs July 20th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles 
  50 - Picnic July 1917 by Rose Macaulay 
  51 - Sonnet at Ostend July 22nd 1787 by William Lisle Bowles

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  The Cid (Le Cid) by Pierre...

  Pierre Corneille, David Serero

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  The Cid, written by Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), is one the greatest theater play from France (Le Cid). Recorded for the first time in English language, this Studio Cast Album Recording stars David Serero as Don Rodrigo, in his own adaptation.

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  Brontes The: The Poems: Volume 1

  Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë,...

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  Perhaps England’s greatest literary family. To find one brilliant novelist in a family is extremely rare. But two? Three?
  
  The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily Jane and Anne, together with their brother Patrick, are famed throughout the world. And amongst their many talents was poetry. Of course, being Brontë’s, they were rather good at that too.
  
  These poems are read for you by the very fine Anna Bentinck, David Shaw-Parker, Eve Karpf and Jo Wyatt.

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  Meditations in an Emergency

  Frank O Hara

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  Collected poems from one of the Twentieth Century's most influential voices. 
  Frank O’Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry, “which, by its vitality alone, became the dominant force in the American poetic tradition.” 
  Frank O’Hara was born in Baltimore in 1926 and grew up in New England; from 1951 he lived and worked in New York, both for Art News and for the Museum of Modern Art, where he was an associate curator. O’Hara’s untimely death in 1966 at the age of forty was, in the words of fellow poet John Ashbery, “the biggest secret loss to American poetry since John Wheelwright was killed.”. 
  This collection is a reissue of a volume first published by Grove Press in 1957, and it demonstrates beautifully the flawless rhythm underlying O’Hara’s conviction that to write poetry, indeed to live, “you just go on your nerve.

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