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1201) Beds
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A theater piece in two acts, Beds brings together mime, music and dialogue to explore Irish attitudes towards sex, marriage, love, death and sexual fantasy centering on the common theme of beds.
1202) Henry Alford, The Poetry
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Alford was born in London in 1810. Something of a prodigy he had published several Latin odes and a history of the Jews by the time he was 10. Graduating from Cambridge his life was to follow in the family footsteps of being a clergyman and he held the post of Vicar at Wymeswold in Leicestershire, for the next 18 years. Shortly after this he became the Dean of Canterbury. Much of his career highlights are based on his theology and such works as his...
1203) Brewing Storms
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The stories of men, as seeker and teacher, abound in the pages of heritage texts and literary works, but the stories of women are rare. Brewing Storms is a collection of poems that offers a window into the spiritual path of one young woman as she navigates her way through the storms of the soul. The poems provide a deep and honest insight into the challenges of growth and spiritual development along with moments and memories of profound fulfillment...
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Interviewer: "On what occasions do you lie?" Anthony Burgess: "When I write, when I speak, when I sleep."
He was the last great modernist. Novelist, composer, librettist, essayist, semanticist, translator, critic, Anthony Burgess's versatility and erudition found expression in more than fifty books and dozens of musical compositions, from operas, choral works and song cycles to symphonies and concertos.
Here now is a kaleidoscope of a book--the...
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"Coleridge's Conversation Poems — The Complete Collection" features all eight of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems dubbed 'conversation poems' by George McLean Harper. The poems included in the collection are The Eolian Harp (1796), Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement (1796), This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison (1797), Frost at Midnight (1798), Fears in Solitude (1798), The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem (1798), Dejection: An Ode (1802)...
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936) was an English novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer most famous for his stories set in and related to colonial India. He innovated the art of short story writing and was one of the most popular writers in the U.K. during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
A brand new collection of Kipling's best poetry, including "Gunga Din", "If-", "Recessional", "The Gods of the Copybook Headings", "The White...
1207) Masquerade Me
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This is the seventh poetry collection from the poet, E.M. McConnell. Masquerade Me takes you on a journey through masks, roles and ideas. Who are we under the masks? What did we leave behind? Then we step back into myth and idea, with Magic Me, packed with poetry about Druidry, Paganism and the soul. Morph Me then looks at how we have been changed, how love impacts us, and how we as people create sparks, inspiration and longing, as we pass through...
1208) The Laboratory
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"The Laboratory" is a poem and dramatic monologue. This poem, set in seventeenth century France, is the monologue of a woman speaking to an apothecary as he prepares a poison, which she intends to use to kill her rival in love. It was inspired by the life of Marie Madeleine Marguerite D'Aubray, marquise de Brinvilliers (1630-1676), who poisoned her father and two brothers and planned to poison her husband.
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"Like a Ship's Fair Ghost Upon the Sea" is a collection of poetry by various poets dedicated to the White Ship, a vessel that sank in the English Channel on 25th November, 1120. The ship was carrying around 300 people, including the only legitimate son and heir of King Henry I of England, William Adelin. All but one of those aboard died, and it was the death of William Adelin that led to a succession crisis in England that threw the country into civil...
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First published in 1892, this is Emma Marshall's fictional account of Thomas Chatterton's troubled life, misdirected genius, and tragic death. Chatterton, as an 11-year-old boy, began publishing mature works of poetry in 1763. Before long, he was fooling the literary world by passing his work off as that of a non-existent 15th-century poet named Thomas Rowley. Brought up in poverty and without a father, he studied furiously and went on to try and...
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Elizabeth Mills is an ecumenical Christian, and a member of the Religious Society of Friends, and she is actively involved in her local meeting for worship for healing. Her love of stillness has led her to share times of stillness with others through quiet days, Taizé worship, and guided meditations. Writing has always been part of Elizabeth's spiritual journey as she seeks to walk a contemplative path in the midst of daily life. Her poems, prayers,...
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Walk the streets of the eternal city with a modern traveler through ancient ruins. Each verse of Chasing Apollo is a step through, under and around the paths of Rome. Like photographs or paintings, sculpted with words to share the experience of a week-long holiday.
As well as the main journalistic poem of thoughts, emotions and experiences, you'll find a number of stray daydreams and passing fancies inspired by the same visit to Rome during warm...
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This, the second collection of short stories by poet and short fiction author Sandra Bunting, brings us into a world of untold childhood tales, unexpected life twists and even a thriller or two. The stories take the reader from Ireland to Canada and back, with each location depicted in vivid color and with a warmth and detail typical of her work.
This second collection follows on The Effect of Frost on Southern Vines, Sandra's debut short fiction...
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Extrait: "C'était au mois de mai 1813 que j'avais eu le malheur de tomber aux mains des Anglais. Ma connaissance de la langue anglaise, - j'avais appris cette langue dès l'enfance et la parlais presque aussi aisément que le français, - m'avait valu d'être choisi par mon colonel pour certaine besogne des plus délicates."
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1217) Yesterday's Summer
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This book consists of a collection of poems from David Bowker; the majority were written in the autumn of 2022, but others are from the mid-1990s and the 2010s. The poems are observations and thoughts on life - they are responses to the author's experiences. Though David's creative life has largely been as a visual artist through painting, drawing, collage and photography - something that continues - the autumn of 2022 brought a need to express through...
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Extrait : "Ô le plus noble don de la nature ! ma bonne plume d'oie ! esclave de ma pensée, obéissante à ma volonté, arrachée à l'aile paternelle pour faire une plume, ce puissant instrument de bien petits hommes ! Ô toi ! qui facilites l'accouchement intellectuel d'un cerveau en travail, gros de vers ou de prose ; toi qui, en dépit de l'inconstance des femmes et des sarcasmes de la critique..."
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1219) Wind, Trees
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A politically urgent yet timeless collection that studies
the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love.
In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation on
power and loss, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about
inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the
wind, and cannot possibly carry all we've been handed? Offering a stark moral critique
of pandemic self-preservation-as...
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Writings about the Scottish island from throughout history and today, from the likes of novelists, poets, playwrights, saints, queens, and more.
This anthology is comprised of creative prose, nonfiction, and poetry that ranges from St. Columba to the present day, all linked by the isle of Iona. Featuring specially commissioned work by Meaghan Delahunt, Jennie Erdal, Sara Lodge, Victoria Mackenzie, Candia McWilliam, Ruth Thomas, and Alice Thompson,...
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