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  Leave Taking

  Winsome Pinnock

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  'What doctor know about our illness? Just give you pills to sick you stomach and a doctor certificate. What they know about a black woman soul?'
  In North London, Del and Viv are soul-sick. Del doesn't want to be at home; staying out late – 3 p.m.-the-next-day late – is more her thing. Viv scours her schoolbooks trying to find a trace of herself between their lines.
  When Enid takes her daughters to the local obeah woman for some traditional Caribbean soul-healing, secrets are spilled. There's no turning back for Del, Viv and Enid as they negotiate the frictions between their countries and cultures.
  Two generations. Three incredible women. Winsome Pinnock's play Leave Taking is an epic story of what we leave behind in order to find home. It premiered in 1987, and was revived at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2018, in a production directed by the Bush's Artistic Director, Madani Younis.
  Winsome Pinnock has written numerous plays, including Talking in Tongues, for which she won the George Devine and Pearson Best New Play Awards.
  'The godmother of Black British playwrights' Guardian

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  Tripas - Poems

  Brandon Som

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  WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYFinalist for the 2023 National Book Award for PoetryWith Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and his Chinese American father and grandparents, who ran the family corner store. Enacting a cómo se dice poetics, a dialogic poem-making that inventively listens to heritage languages and transcribes family memory, Som participates in a practice of mem(oir), placing each poem's ear toward a confluence of history, labor, and languages, while also enacting a kind of "telephone" between cultures. Invested in the circuitry and circuitous routes of migration and labor, Som's lyricism weaves together the narratives of his transnational communities, bringing to light what is overshadowed in the reckless transit of global capitalism and imagining a world otherwise―one attuned to the echo in the hecho, the oracle in the órale.

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  The Waste Land

  T. S. Eliot

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  In The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot presents a haunting and fragmented vision of a world in decline—a world ravaged by war, disillusionment, and spiritual desolation. Considered one of the most influential poems of the 20th century, The Waste Land is a complex mosaic of voices, mythic references, and shifting landscapes, capturing the fractured psyche of modern life.
  
  Through its five sections, Eliot explores the themes of fragmentation, despair, and the search for meaning in a society torn apart by cultural and spiritual crisis. From the bleak and desolate opening lines, the poem journeys through images of decay, lost hope, and barren landscapes, interspersed with moments of revelation and the possibility of redemption. With references to works ranging from the Bible to Dante, the Upanishads to the Grail myth, The Waste Land weaves a dense web of cultural and literary allusions, challenging readers to confront the disintegration of modern civilization.
  
  A bold exploration of the fractured nature of contemporary existence, The Waste Land is both a lament and a call to find hope amidst the ruins—an extraordinary work of literary art that continues to resonate with readers in the modern age.

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  Gothic Poems

  Rachel Lawson

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  The Ravens 
  A flock of ravens floats upon the air over their prey, 
  Like a looming black storm cloud of gloom, 
  In the later hours of the death of the day, 
  They fight each other for room, 
  In the melee, one is injured it falls, 
  Blood and gore fill the air, 
  The air is filled with their dire calls, 
  Little did the observers of this carnage care, 
  To them, it was merely a display of the nature of the raven, 
  Upon the hour they fled, 
  They were neither crazed nor craven, 
  They were happy and well-fed.

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  Delay

  Timothy X Atack

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  'I'm awake. I'm alive. Everything's real and I love you.'
  Lin, an astronaut, speeds towards a distant planet. He's on a pioneering solo mission to create a new home for humankind.
  His only human contact is an exchange of voice messages with his lover, Silas, back on Earth. But thanks to the laws of relativity, Silas is ageing so much faster than Lin. Days for the astronaut will be decades for the lover left behind.
  As disaster befalls the spacecraft and planet Earth falls apart, Silas and Lin's love is tested to the limit.
  Timothy X Atack's DELAY is a love story. A suspenseful, heartwrenching yet hopeful queer sci-fi stage play about saying what you mean and saying goodbye. It was first performed at Bristol Old Vic in 2025.

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  Museum of My Soul: Redux - The...

  Dornel Phillips AKA D-Nice Keoma

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  Redux has 30 more poems, reshaping the narrative created in the first book. This version tells a longer and more heartfelt story. Museum of The Soul is a collection of poems that tell a love story. These poems cover the real dynamics of romantic relationships, seen through my eyes. The title The Time IT Took originates from the time it took to put together a body such as this. The title also loosely represents my romantic relationship history. Museum of My Soul in that sense is a collection of artifacts (poems) from different periods of my life and relationships. The book still obliges to three exhibits set forth in the first book: Exhibit A: Falling, Exhibit B: Being broken, and Exhibit C: Ending

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