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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Death of England Closing Time
Book SynopsisLook at it Carly, look at our dream.No one''s happy Denise.There are two sides to every story.Grieving the loss of the family shop and their dreams destroyed, Denise and daughter-in-law Carly are left to pick up the pieces of their relatives' mistakes.Will all be forgiven?Jo Martin (Doctor Who) and Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) play Denise and Carly in this thought-provoking drama that explores family dynamics, race, colonialism and cancel culture.Clint Dyer (Othello) and Roy Williams (Sucker Punch) reunite to write this powerful new play, the final, standalone chapter of the award-winning Death of England series.This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre, London, in September 2023.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Selected Plays by Cuban Playwright Abel Gonzalez
Book SynopsisOne of Cuba's most important contemporary playwrights, Abel González Melo is known for a hybrid poetics in which he employs contemporary formal features, such as non-linear storytelling and flashbacks, interwoven with elements from the classical tradition in order to stage the ignoble realities of postmodern life. (Lillian Manzor, University of Miami) Born in Havana in 1980, Abel González Melo is a rare example of a contemporary Cuban playwright whose work is performed and celebrated not only in Cuba, but also in the US, the Americas more widely, Europe, and beyond.Investigating a raft of national and universal themes, such as queer sexuality, the dilemma of leaving or remaining, political power and censorship, family dynamics, the ambition and responsibility of the artist, and so-called cancel culture', González Melo's work is international and universal in scope. The result of a 20-year collaboration with translator William Gregory, this collection of six plays
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Three Acts of Love
Book SynopsisPassion. Obsession. Acceptance. Betrayal. Three ground-breaking female playwrights have cooked up a feast, with a trio of short plays with music that explore love in all its glorious, sticky complexity. From the boozy warmth of the social club to the endless labyrinth of the internet, this is a show about the communities we form, the care that we show each other and the love that we hope never tears us apart.The Start of Space by Laura Lindow: A visiting expert lecturing on the secrets of the heart has a dark and unexpected truth of their own.fangirl, or the justification of limerence by Naomi Obeng: An obsessive fan poses as her musical idol online and becomes lost in a maze of love and revenge.with the love of neither god nor state by Vici Wreford-Sinnott: A young woman runs away from a world that doesn't understand her and finds shelter in a local social club. But will they have the heart to truly let her in?This edition was published to coincide with the world
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Same Team A Street Soccer Story
Book SynopsisNo.1 Players always come firstNo.2 We look to the futureNo.3 We never leave anyone behindNo.4 We place others before ourselvesNo.5 We keep our promisesFive women have come together with one goal, one dream. Coming from very different backgrounds in life they have to work together as a team if they want to do what no one from Scotland has ever done before. To win the Homeless World Cup, and bring the trophy home.A joyful story of community and teamwork, building connections between each other, and homelessness. Written with the Dundee Women's Street Soccer Team, Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse''s Same Team A Street Soccer Story is an uplifting whirlwind through the highs and lows of homeless football.This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, in December 2023.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Staging Black Queer South Africa
Book SynopsisThemes of identity, tradition, and belonging blend together in this collection of five plays celebrating South Africa''s vibrancy and diversity. Delving into African mythology to uncover a rich tapestry of history, spirit, and ancestry, Staging Black, Queer South Africa: Plays for the Gods! offers profound insights into the contemporary Black queer experience, shedding light on the complex interplay between identity and tradition in modern South Africa. Drawing on long-held parables, such as Camus'' Absurd Hero, this collection bridges the gap between Ritual Theatre and Theatre of the Absurd to fully evoke the paradox of being Black and queer in South Africa, with the collection coining the Absurd Ritual' genre. Touching on ideas of Ubungoma, IsiZulu Shamanism, and the legacy of queer individuals in African communities, the plays challenge long-held assumptions on whether queerness ''belongs'' in traditional beliefs. Along with a c
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The EU Killed My Dad
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Woven Voices PrizeWho do you blame? The woman, the gun, or politics?Berker travels from Britain to Turkey to meet his estranged father, but it's too late: his sister Elif informs him that their Baba has already died. A family reunion becomes an exhilarating whodunnit investigation as Berker discovers the truth about his roots, grieves for a man he will never truly know, and accidentally unravels a conspiracy that goes to the heart of global politics.Featuring British spies, Turkish soldiers, and London's kebab shops, Aaron Kilercioglu's The EU Killed My Dad is the winner of the Woven Voices Prize 2023 and an inventive, fast-paced exploration of identity, belonging, and history spanning five decades. Aaron''s previous award-winning work includes the sell-out hit For a Palestinian, which has been seen at Bristol Old Vic, the Camden People's Theatre, and Underbelly.This edition was published to coincide with
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ben and Imo
Book SynopsisThe 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is fast approaching. To mark the occasion, Benjamin Britten has just nine months to write a new opera about her predecessor Elizabeth I.Into the world of the disheartened composer enters the exuberant and passionate Imogen Holst, daughter of Gustav and an accomplished musician in her own right. Her candid and can-do attitude proves to be the perfect foil for the capricious and often maddening Britten, and what begins as an arrangement of practical support turns into a bond that not only sees Gloriana to its premiere but endures throughout the rest of their lives.This edition is published to coincide with the world premiere at the Swan Theatre, Stratford, in February 2024.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Four Northwomen
Book SynopsisThe first collection of plays from writer and BAFTA-nominated actor Maxine Peake, featuring strong female characters in different biographies.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Transmedia Theatre Plays
Book SynopsisCaridad Svich is a playwright, associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review and founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press. She received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for The House of the Spirits. She has edited several books on theatre including Audience Revolution and Innovation in Five Acts (2016 and 2015), Out of Silence: Censorship in Theatre & Performance (2014), and Trans-Global Readings (2004).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Lonely Londoners
Book SynopsisSamuel Selvon (1923-1994) was a Trinidad-born writer who moved to London, England in the 1950s. His 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners is groundbreaking in its use of creolised English, or nation language, for narrative as well as dialogue. Selvon was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships (in 1955 and 1968), an honorary doctorate from Warwick University in 1989, and in 1985 the honorary degree of DLitt by the University of the West Indies. In 1969 he was awarded the Trinidad & Tobago Hummingbird Medal Gold for Literature, and in 1994 he was (posthumously) given another national award, the Chaconia Medal Gold for Literature. In 2012 he was honoured with a NALIS Lifetime Achievement Literary Award for his contributions to Trinidad and Tobago's literature.Roy Williams, OBE, worked as an actor before turning to writing full-time in 1990. He graduated from Rose Bruford in 1995 with a first class BA Hons degree in Writing. The No Boys Cricket Club (Theatre Ro
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Bloomsbury Academic Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon
Book SynopsisAnd I think you can tell a lot about a person by what they choose to see in you.She was a 17 year old girl; the only God she believed in was Taylor Swift.After her sister's untimely death by a Yorkshire Pudding, a funny teenage misfit begrudgingly joins a flailing scout group to help her navigate the kicks and punches of adolescence with varying degrees of success.Rosie Day's debut play Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon is a rollercoaster ride through youth. Whether you are a young person, know a young person, or simply were a young person once it's time to rip up the rule book and reconnect with your younger self.This edition was published to coincide with the production which opened at the West End's Garrick Theatre in March 2024.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Isley Lynn Plays 1
Book SynopsisThe first collection of plays from Olivier-nominated playwright Isley Lynn, whose award-winning work uplifts their deeply human characters through stories that are unexpected, radically intimate, and profoundly theatrical.Lean (2013): It''s not just powerful but it''s incandescent. There is a profound intensity... that truly keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole way through. Sensitively written... Exemplary theatre at its best. The London StageSkin A Cat (2016): Frequently hilarious, it's also refreshingly honest and open in its discussion of menstruation, masturbation, oral and anal sex, and might well be the smartest, sharpest piece about female sexual identity since Phoebe Waller Bridge's Fleabag... this is bold and genuinely exciting new writing. The Stagealbatross (2021): Every intimate, individual scene is engaging, as the full-bodied characters knock up against their own judgments and histories... Lynn's scenes are full of g
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Tupperware of Ashes
Book SynopsisI'm falling through a world which makes no senseAn ambitious Michelin-Star chef, Queenie is used to having the last word. But when her children notice gaps in her memory and her grip on reality loosening, they are faced with an impossible choice. As Raj, Gopal and Kamala battle to reconcile their life-long duty to their mother, the ramifications of their decision take on a heartbreaking permanence. A vivid and heart-breaking family drama, A Tupperware Of Ashes is about life, immigration and the Indian spiritual cycle of death and rebirth. This edition is published to coincide with the world premiere at the National Theatre, London in September 2024.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Forgotten In The Land Of Egypt
Book SynopsisI look at these fields and I try to imagine what they were: crop fields, maybe. Or fields of sheep. And these power lines. I try to imagine that they lead somewhere but they never do. Only under. In 1631, The Fens, the flat area of land stretching from Cambridge to Norwich, were drained. In 2050, The Fens return to the sea. Two children play in the waterscape. They tell tales of a mythic Waterman, who scours the water for sunken parts. But, in the bitter struggle for survival, soon play adopts a more sinister note. Meanwhile in Ely, 2023, a priest gets a visit from a woman haunted by prophetic dreams. Tom Murray's Forgotten In The Land Of Egypt is a play about grief, faith, and the climate crisis; the crashing confluence of past and present; the refusal to heed the warnings we're given. It's a play about loneliness and the longing for human connection. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere UK tour starting in September 2024.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Uruguayan Plays
Book SynopsisSophie Stevens is Lecturer in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the Institute of Languages Cultures and Societies, University of London. As a theatre translation researcher and practitioner, she has published with Bloomsbury Academic, Legenda and John Murray Press.William Gregory is a translator and dramaturg whose other publications with Bloomsbury includeSelected Plays by Cuban Playwright Abel González Melo, The Uncapturable by Rubén Szuchmacher, and The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Plays.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC My English Persian Kitchen
Book SynopsisHannah Khalil was Resident Writer at Shakespeare's Globe in 2022. Henry VIII was part of their 2022 summer season and her critically acclaimed re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Fir Tree which premiered in 2021, returned for their 2022 winter season. Hannah's other theatre commissions include new work for the RSC, Soho Theatre, The Kiln and Mosaic/Fishamble. Previous work for stage includes A Museum in Baghdad, which opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan Theatre in 2019 directed by Erica Whyman, Interference for The National Theatre of Scotland, The Scar Test for Soho Theatre and Scenes from 68* Years for the Arcola. Hannah was named Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2021 and was a Creative Fellow of the Samuel Beckett Archive for 2021/2022.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Tones
Book SynopsisSome stereotypes have an element of truth. A presented set of rules but in the end you get to choose.What happens if you''re not Black enough for the ends, but too Black for the rest of the world? Gerel Falconer''s Tones follows the pivotal moments of lead character Jerome, aka The Professor, and his upbringing from childhood to his departure from university. As he battles with his identity we go on a journey through the depths of Black-British culture, class, and belonging.Tones combines the gritty underground sounds of Hip-Hop, Grime and Drill with the melodrama of opera to tell the story of a treacherous path to self-discovery. The original production was presented by award-winning Wound Up Theatre.From writer and performer Gerel Falconer, winner of Best Book and Lyrics at the Black British Theatre Awards 2023 and nominee for The Stage Debut Awards 2023, Tones is a riveting exploration of the Black experience and the
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Monologues Duologues and Scenes for Young
Book SynopsisEmma-Louse Tinniswood studied Drama and Music at Royal Holloway and Applied Theatre at Central School of Speech and Drama. They are a qualified Drama and Music teacher and also hold a Masters in History. They have been teaching Drama & Music for 25 years, in schools, youth theatres and run their own performing arts school and youth theatre.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Purists
Book SynopsisDan McCabe's play The Purists premiered at The Huntington Theater in Boston where it won the Elliot Norton Award for Best Production and The Elisabeth Osborn Award for Best Play. Other plays include Blame the Parents and Reptilian. He is co-writing the screenplay for the forthcoming James Baldwin biopic, with Billy Porter portraying the author and civil rights activist.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The The Roommate
Book SynopsisJen Silverman (they/them) (Playwright) is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Plays include: The Roommate (Broadway: The Booth Theatre; Regionally: Actor's Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Steppenwolf, South Coast Repertory Theatre, etc); Highway Patrol (The Goodman); Spain (Second Stage Theater); Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties (Woolly Mammoth, MCC, Southwark Playhouse London); The Moors (Yale Repertory Theatre, The Playwrights Realm); and Witch (Writer's Theatre, The Geffen, The Huntington). Books include: the debut novel We Play Ourselves, story collection The Island Dwellers, and novel There's Going to be Trouble from Random House. Silverman also wrote the best-selling narrative podcast The Miranda Obsession for Audible, starring Rachel Brosnahan. Silverman is a three-time MacDowell Fellow, a member of New Dramatists, and a Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris. They w
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ostan
Book SynopsisIranian-Kurd Rebin has been stuck in the UK immigration system and working in a failing car-wash until his routine is shattered by Persian boss Shapur, who proposes using the business as a front for human trafficking.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Gerry Sewell A Purely Belter Adventure
Book SynopsisBased on Jonathan Tulloch's novel The Season Ticket, which became the cult Geordie film Purely Belter, Olivier, and combining live music, puppet dogs and Wor Flags, Gerry & Sewell is a vibrant rainbow of black and white. For the Toon
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mens Business
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Moth
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Score
Book SynopsisOliver Cotton was born in London. As an actor he has played leading roles at the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Court Theatre, The Old Vic and in London's West End. His many TV appearances include: The Borgias (Cesare Borgia), David Copperfield, The Year of The French, The Party, Redemption, Poirot, The Camomile Lawn, Westbeach, Sharpe's Battle, Rhodes, All Quiet on the Preston Front, Innocents, Judge John Deed, Inspector Lynley, Waking The Dead, MIT, Beastly Games, Midsomer Murders, Sensitive Skin (series 1 & 2), The Commander, Margaret. and Money. His films include: Here We go Round The Mulberry Bush, The Day Christ Died, Firefox, Oliver Twist, The Sicilian, Eleni, Hiding Out, Christopher Columbus, Son of the Pink Panther, The Innocent Sleep, Phoenix Blue, The Opium War, Beowulf, Baby Blue, The Dancer Upstairs, Shanghai Knights, The Bone Collector, Rain Dogs, Colour Me Kubrick, Pope Joan. His other writing includes: Man Falling Down for Shakespeare's Globe, The Incredible Journey of Sir Frances Younghusband and The Enoch Show both for the Royal Court Theatre. For the cinema he has written: Singing For Stalin, Vines, Wet Weather Cover and Deadline. For television he has written A Touch of Frost and Diamond Geezer.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) This is Not a Happy Room
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC RUM
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Keep On Keepin On
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) MILLENNIUM GIRLS
Book SynopsisSophia Leonie is a writer and performer. She studied writing at Middlesex University and acting at East 15. Her short film Love and More Important Things, was selected to premiere at the 2016 BUFF (British Urban Film Festival) as part of the Odeon Cinema Love Shorts collection. In 2019 her play 35 was longlisted for the Yard Theatre's First Drafts. A screen adaptation of this play was also longlisted by BBC's Writers room 2019. In 2021 Sophia was announced as one of five recipients of a new Screenwriting Bursary from Neal Street Productions.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) KELI
Book SynopsisMartin Green is a multi-award-winning musician and Ivor Novello winning composer. As a member of Lau he has won four BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for Best Group an unprecedented four times and toured all over the world. He has received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists in recognition of his talent as a composer, and had commissions from Opera North, Edinburgh International Festival, The Barbican. As a writer he has been commissioned by The Guardian, National Theatre of Scotland and Southbank Centre. In 2019 he won the Ivor Novello award for Sound Art for his large scale public installation Aeons. His critically acclaimed work for as a broadcaster for BBC Radio 4 exploring musical and social themes including: rave culture, morris dancing and brass banding, has received millions of listens. He was a recipient of the 2024 National Theatre Peter Shaffer Commissions for new large scale plays.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The 56
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Local
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Nye
Book SynopsisTim price is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter. His plays include For Once, Salt, Root and Roe (winner of Best English Language playwright at the Theatre Critics of Wales Award), I'm With The Band, Candylion The Insatiable Inflatable, Praxis Makes Perfect, The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning (winner of the James Tait Black prize for drama), Protest Song, Teh Internet Is Serious Business, Isla, Nye, Force Majeure and Odyssey 84. He is co-founder of Welsh new writing company Dirty Protest and co-founder and Literary Manager for the Welsh National Theatre.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Lost Lear
Book SynopsisDan Colley is a Creative Director and Producer specialising in ensemble-devised theatre, young audiences theatre, comedy, community participation, and outdoor spectacle. He is a former Artistic Director of Collapsing Horse (who presented four shows at Dublin Fringe Festival) and is former. Co-Artistic Director of the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival. He was Producer/Facilitator of Dublin Fringe's birthday project TWENTY FIRST. and is a former Fringe LAB resident artist. Dan trained as a Youth Theatre Facilitator with Youth Theatre Ireland. He is a member of the Project Arts Centre, is Theatre Artist in Residence with Riverbank Arts Centre, and is on the Expert Advisory Group of Creative Ireland: Pillar One.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Line of Beauty
Book SynopsisJack Holden is an actor and writer from London. His West End credits include the National Theatre's War Horse and the Almeida Theatre's Ink. He has also performed at the RSC, Bristol Old Vic and toured extensively around the UK. Cruise was his West End debut as a playwright.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Cyrano de Bergerac
Book SynopsisEdmond Rostand (1868-1918) was a playwright born out of his time. In a period when naturalism was the order of the day Rostand's plays seemed to hark back to a more romantic, chivalric period. His plays proved popular with the French public bolstered by a number of roles specifically created for the great Parisian actress Sarah Bernhardt.Simon Evans is a British theatre and television director, writer, and actor.Debris Stephenson is an artist, poet, writer and activist. Her debut grime-musical, Poet in da Corner, premiered at The Royal Court in 2018. Poet in da Corner, which Debris' wrote with Grime MC, Jammz and stared in, received 4-5 stars across the board and saw Debris' nominated for an Emerging Talent of The Year Award at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Evening All Afternoon
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Last Picture
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Lulu.com Cancer Cantata
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Lulu.com Afloematic
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Lulu.com 13 Fever
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Lulu.com Love Sex Pain A Poetry Collection
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Lulu.com My Thoughts BlackLove
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Lulu.com Burnt Sugar
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Lulu.com Love My Love
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Lulu.com Melodies of Yearning Hearts
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Lulu.com BorderLines POETRY
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Lulu.com Storm Is Her Name
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