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  Variations in Verse

  Dorothy M. Mitchell

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  My writing enables me to reach beyond the limitations of my Multiple Sclerosis.  I have suffered this illness for over thirty years, having many relapses during that time.But when I write I am transported from the mundane into the realms of delight and wonder be it poetry or novel, I’m far too busy to be ill.Please read and enjoy!

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  The Rhymer's Club

  William Butler Yeats, Richard Le...

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  In 1890 W B Yeats and Ernest Rhys founded a poetry club.  Based mainly at Fleet Street’s immortal ‘Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese’ pub with occasional appearances at the Domino room in the Café Royal poets gathered together to dine and drink. 
   
  Whilst it was based on a core of poets many others attended on an ad hoc basis including Oscar Wilde, Francis Thompson & Lord Alfred Douglas. The camaraderie, banter and poetry that played out in their dreams, ambitions and for many, their difficult lives led Yeats to call them ‘the tragic generation’. 
   
  As well as their enthusiastic social forays they printed two anthologies of verse. The first in 1892 and the second in 1894.  For all the talent it could call upon the print runs were only in their hundreds. 
   
  Part of a poet’s obligation is to move the boundaries of society, to write what others shun. And whilst that is certainly the case with our group in terms of writing in one glaring respect they were very Victorian.  The members of the club were only men.   
   
  Arthur Ransome sums up their existence as "... the Rhymer's Club used to meet, to drink from tankards, smoke clay pipes, and recite their own poetry". 
   
  Whilst their initial aims were food, drink, camaraderie and bragging, the reality is that their poetry gives us so much more.

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  The Vivian Poems

  Bruce RIce

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  These poems peel back the layers of suburban life and the American Dream. Vivian Maier was a self-taught street photographer who worked as a nanny for wealthy employers in New York and Chicago. The poet imagines her as a documentarian who is compassionate, abrasive, and meditative, while her subjects provide their own narrative. More than anything, the poems are a response to her work, which is all we have that comes directly from her. It is a deliberate challenge to the “mystery nanny” she is reduced to in much of the constructed narrative of her life.

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  Landmines (Multiplay Drama)

  Phil Davis

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  A stark, fast-paced and fraught play about political upheaval and the media's relationship with civil violence and terrorism in modern Britain.
  A peaceful politician is slain on the streets of Vida's hometown. Reeling from the tragedy, Vida embarks on an increasingly dangerous mission to confront the rise in bigotry and fascism.
  But just as she feels most alone, she discovers there are others who feel the same as her – and now the deadly potential of their combined power is about to be unleashed.
  Landmines was first performed at Ovalhouse, produced through the BRIT School's training initiative, The Bridge Company.
  Multiplay Drama is an exciting new series of large-cast plays, specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults.

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  Scraps - Poetry from the Multiverse

  Rob Taylor

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  Scraps is Rob Taylor’s third poetry book and fourth overall. Taylor’s poetry is compelling in its examination of human relationships and the experiences that shape our perspectives. The dynamics underlying human conduct are easy prey for Taylor’s writing, exploring the influences of spiritual metaphysics, politics, religion, social injustice and love—spanning day-to-day human interactions that impact all of us. Ultimately, the poetry fleshes out our moment-to-moment choices that determine the health of our collective consciousness. 
  Taylor’s poems are constructed in diverse styles selected to match the energetic flow of the words. 
  The readers will find themselves on a fifty-one poems journey into personal emotions and insight, but also powerful messages empowering our capacity to author good outcomes based on our potential for love and reverence for each other. 
  “I wait alone for other souls 
  traversing this journey, and we 
  will discover higher places” 
  from the poem, If I Could, by Rob Taylor

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  #Wuhan2 - Empowering poems and...

  Sophia Behal

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  The book is the second part of #Wuhan. It is called #Wuhan2 and it deals with feelings the pandemic might invoke. Most certainly are all of us scared from an epidemy. Find some alarming and soothing words in this book of poetry.

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