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  The Toll

  Luke Wright

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  An escaped lion roams the streets of Essex;
  
  a lonely pensioner holds a tower block fete; ,brand a young woman dreams of leaving home.
  
  Travel the unfashionable A-roads and commuter lines of England -'where industry meets marsh'- with poet Luke Wright. In his stunning new collection, discover a country riven by inequality and corruption but sustained by a surreal, gallow's humour. The Toll combines the elegaic with the anarchic, placing uproarious satire cheek-by-jowl with wild experiments in form and touching poems of parenthood.
  
  In this mature follow-up to his best-selling debut, Mondeo Man, Wright captures the strain of austerity Britain, speaking truth to power and registering the toll it takes on us all.

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  A Private Mythology - Poems

  May Sarton

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  Stunning reflections chronicling a journey both spiritual and physical by May Sarton, one of America’s most beloved poetsIn celebration of her fiftieth birthday, May Sarton embarked on a pilgrimage around the world. Traveling through Japan, India, and Greece, she captured her spiritual discoveries in this vivid collection of poetry. Arresting images and meditations on the differences between East and West are rendered with the exceptional clarity of an accomplished artist.Winner of the Emily Clark Balch Prize.

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  The Golden Cub

  Rosemarie Gilchrist

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  The Golden Cub is an epic family adventure set in the 1800's  and based on a true story. An Irish Landowners son travels to South Africa with his wife and young child, only to disappear without trace. Reports of a white child living with a remote Tribe reach the family and they send his younger brother to locate and recover the young boy. The Brother's girlfriend, from a poor family, runs away with him to Africa and helps in his daunting search. Colorful characters, grand adventures and the vast African landscape await, in this emotional and brilliantly narrated novel. Enjoy Love, drama and the triumph of the Human spirit in this memorable journey through the African wilds and all it's fascinating  inhabitants.

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  Touch to Affliction

  Nathalie Stephens

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  From the ruins of poetry, fiction and philosophy comes Touch To Affliction, a meditation on the notion of homeland, on patrie and the inhumanity that arises from it.
   
  This is a text obsessed with ruins: the ruins of genre, of language, of the city, of the body. The history of the twentieth century is a history of barbarism, and Stephens walks, like a fl̢neur, through its midst, experiencing through her own body the crumbled buildings, the dessicated cities, the eviscerated language and humanity of our time, calling out in passing to those before her who have contemplated atrocity: Martin Buber, Henryk Gorecki, Simone Weil. In the end, it considers what we are left with Рindeed, what is left of us Рas both participants in and heirs to the twentieth century.
   
  Insistently political but never polemical, Touch To Affliction, at the interstices of thought and theunnameable, is at once lament, accusation and elegy.
   
  Praise for Paper City:
   
  ‘Understanding is almost antithetical to the project Stephens seems to have assigned herself, that of unraveling or radically altering our sense of logic, of language, of narrative, of body, of desire, of words on paper. She wants the book to burn in our hands and, indeed, it does.’
   
  – NewPages

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  New Labour (NHB Modern Plays)

  Marcelo Dos Santos

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  Getting pissed, getting laid, getting by.
  The adventures and misadventures of a group of graduates working in a North London call centre: Alice wants to be a singer, Liam wants to travel, Rob wants to make a killing and Sally's been there too long but it's okay, it's not forever, is it? Is it?
  New Labour is a comedy drama about being young, working in a shit job, living in debt, and all the funny and sad things you do to cope. It's about the modern workforce – the children of New Labour; their hopes, their realities.
  First performed by students of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London, in 2014, directed by Richard Wilson, it provides rich opportunities for drama schools and youth theatre groups to perform.

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  Transit Authority - Poems

  Tony Sanders

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  The prize-winning poet and author of Partial Eclipse continues his investigation of urban metaphysical pathos in this collection. 
   
  Transit Authority is made up of three sequences that mark the early and late junctures of the twentieth century: the first, a series of poems that investigate the early part of the century; the second, meditations based on the 1930s photographs by Berenice Abbott; and the third, “Reckoning,” in which, with spare lyricism, Sanders meditates on where this century has brought us. 
   
  Sanders looks with rueful intrigue at a landscape inundated with near misses and has-beens. While it is tempting to turn away from the common predicament, his poems quietly urge us to keep looking. As the poet concludes, though “things aren’t what they should be according to the map . . . we have to press on in search of our bearings.”

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