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121) Decade
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Singer/songwriter. Painter. Contemporary artist. Is there anything Bryony Marie Fry can't do? Well, now she's delving into the world of publishing with her debut collection of poetry, DECADE.
Containing prose written over the course of the last ten years, DECADE journals the personal, professional and spiritual growth of Bryony's journey into womanhood, not ignoring the demons from her past. From homelessness to a long battle with addiction, Bryony...
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The stage is any bare place in a room close to the wall. A screen with a pattern of mountain and sky can stand against the wall, or a curtain with a like pattern hang upon it, but the pattern must only symbolize or suggest. One musician enters and then two others, the first stands singing while the others take their places. Then all three sit down against the wall by their instruments, which are already there-a drum, a zither, and a flute. Or they...
123) The Vicar of Bray
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When a reverend disapproves of his daughter's suitor, he manipulates the church in an effort to discourage their union and find a more favorable partner. It is a drastic decision that effects those inside and outside of the congregation. Rev. William Barlow is the leader of a Low Church, where his curate is a pompous young man named Henry Sandford. Despite his brash persona, Henry and Barlow's daughter, Dorothy, have fallen in love. Barlow disapproves...
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"Between my fingers and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I'll dig with it."
Selected Poems 1966-1987 assembles the groundbreaking work of the first half of Seamus Heaney's extraordinary career. This edition, arranged by the author himself, includes the seminal early poetry that struck readers with the force of revelation and heralded the arrival of an heir to Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, and Robert Frost.
Helen Vendler called Heaney "a poet...
125) 80 Fantastic Poems
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This anthology contains eighty fantastic poems, some of which won awards with national and international poetry competitions. They include poems of comedy, drama, history, love and romance, despair and joy, death, reflection as well as self-belief. It is an anthology of real treasure aimed at inducing the maximum pleasure for readers by a poetic master.
126) Lanyard
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On First Hearing Careless Whisper' is one of several poems in this compelling new collection that put time on pause to look at life through art, whether 1980s pop, or painting, or a congeries of writers including Emily Brontë,, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, D.H. Lawrence, Alice Munro, Fernando Pessoa and the New York Poets... and several of Sansom's beloved contemporaries.
But keenly-observed family life is at the centre of this warm, witty and moving...
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Step into the hauntingly beautiful and thought-provoking world of "A Tribute to Love, Horror, Death and The Crumbling Mind," a mesmerizing collection of dark and introspective poems penned by the brilliant wordsmith, David War.
Within the pages of this poetry book, David War weaves a tapestry of emotions, delving deep into the human psyche to explore the essence of love, the chilling grasp of horror, the enigmatic dance with death, and the fragility...
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Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, in which he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening, as gritty as they are graceful, these poems seem capable of taking in almost anything, and anybody, be it a Tuareg glimpsed on the Irish border,...
130) Mint
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A sharp and detailed portrayal of a man struggling to keep his head above water.
Over 10 years of imprisonment Alan's life has been measured out in weekly visits from his family; slices of the normal life he's left behind. Everything will be so much better once he's finally out and back home for good. Won't it?
Clare Lizzimore's debut play Mint premiered at the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs in July 2013 as part of the Royal Court's Open Court festival....
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In The Spirit Level, as ever with Seamus Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects, a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing, are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful.
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Rudyard Kipling's classic jungle tales, in an acclaimed stage adaptation by Stuart Paterson, 'a master of children's theatre' (Scotsman).
'This exhilarating production ticks all the boxes for families looking for an uplifting treat' - Time Out
'A top-class production, a tropical cocktail of intense and comical moments, shaken and stirred with heart-stopping dangers and surprises' - Daily Telegraph
'Up against Disney, you have your work cut out to...
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Every poem tells a story, and the poems in this collection are no exception.
A poem like 'Jessie and Josh' is based on the author's early memories, while he and his friend—both passionate writers—were the inspiration for 'Two Old Boys'. 'In My Mind's Eye' is a loving message to his wife, and 'The Old Man' was written for his children, The poem 'I Never Noticed' is based on a friend's comments during a country walk; 'Joe', by contrast, came from...
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By the time of his death in January 1996, Norman MacCaig was known widely as the grand old man of Scottish poetry, honored by an Order of the British Empire (OBE) and the Queen's Medal for Poetry. This book is a celebration of MacCaig's life-published in 2010, the hundredth anniversary of his birth-and it features 100 of his best poems, edited by his son Ewen.
136) The Dream Collector
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A school group on a Media Studies field trip to the isolated country house of a black-and-white movie pioneer enter a sinister dreamworld when they go exploring after dark. Once they step through the movie screen, each of the young friends meets their dream double, the sinister Neverborn...
The Dream Collector is an ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.
137) Infinite in Finite
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Infinite in Finite develops the inimitable style of The Multiverse, the author's first collection (2018), praised as showing 'some of the best technical skills of any living poet', the work of 'one who is not afraid of big subjects, whose enthusiastic gaze is directed outward with energy and gladness'. Then Auden and the Romantics lighted his way. To those influences are now added the challenges of a Modernist style, drawing on Marianne Moore, T.S....
139) The Rose of Persia
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A wealthy man unknowingly harbors the Sultana after she sneaks out of the palace, which causes the Sultan and his guards to storm their party. Threatened with death, the man tries to convince the Sultan to spare his life. Hassan is a wealthy merchant who loves the company of common travelers. Despite his social status and many wives (25 to be exact), he constantly opens his home to relative strangers. In one instance, he is entertained by a group...
140) A Changed Life
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Imagine! You divorce a man who has been abusing you for years, threatening your life and killing the two lives that mattered the most to you. Now that he fi nds out you have started a new life, a new career, found true love and a new man he wants you dead. No one will stop him not even the law. If he cant have you no one can!
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