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The New York Review of Books, Inc Orphic Paris
Book SynopsisA poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer and poet Henri Cole.Henri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, explores with fresh and penetrating insight the nature of friendship and family, poetry and solitude, the self and freedom. Cole writes of Paris, “For a time, I lived here, where the call of life is so strong. My soul was colored by it. Instead of worshiping a creator or man, I cared fully for myself, and felt no guilt and confessed nothing, and in this place I wrote, I was nourished, and I grew.” Written under the tutelary spirit of Orpheus—mystic, oracular, entrancing—Orphic Paris is an intimate Paris journal and a literary commonplace book that is a touching, original, brilliant account of the city and of the artists, writers, and luminaries, including Cole himself, who have been moved by it to create.
£19.31
Many Rivers Press River Flow: New and Selected Poems (Revised
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£999.99
Forgotten Books Toi Et Moi Classic Reprint
£19.60
Viking Society for Northern Research Havamal with Glossary Index 7 Viking Society for
Book SynopsisAn edition of Old Icelandic poem, with glossary. Published 1986-7. Glossary was formerly bound separately but is now incorporated in the volume.
£11.40
Currency Press Pty Ltd Cold Light: Adapted from the novel by Frank
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£14.24
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Essential Odyssey
Book SynopsisAn abridgement of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the "Odyssey", this book offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages.
£29.69
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Oresteia Agamemnon by Aiskhylos Elektra by
Book SynopsisAfter the murder of her daughter Iphigeneia by her husband, Agamemnon, Klytaimestra exacts a mother's revenge, murdering Agamemnon and his mistress, Kassandra. Displeased with Klytaimestra's actions, Apollo calls on her son, Orestes, to avenge his father's death with the help of his sister Elektra.
£15.30
Liverpool University Press Juan Ramn Jimnez Selected Poems Poesias escogidas
Book SynopsisJuan Ramón Jimenez (1881-1958) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956, yet his work remains far less well-known in the English-speaking world than it deserves. Jimenez was a prolific writer - his collected verse fills twenty volumes - and his early poems were first published whilst still in his teens.Trade Review...a commendable effort to bring the Spanish Nobel Laureate a little nearer to that (english-speaking) public.'Table of ContentsPreface (Susan Bassnett); Yellow spring; The final journey; Love; October; To my soul; How close to my soul; Sea; Sky; Nocturne; Intelligence, oh give me; At first she came to me; Sleeping is like a bridge; Dawn; Don't run, go slowly; Before me you are, you are; To Dante; I am not me; I am like an absent-minded child; Poem; Memories; Seas; Dream nocturne; Ideal epitaph for a sailor; Would that my book; Leave the doors open; Death, how can I be afraid of you?; The only friend; Mother; Mother (2); Zenit; I shall be reborn; Your nakedness; You light; Chronology; Bibliography.
£27.96
Liverpool University Press Aristophanes Clouds
Book SynopsisClouds has always fascinated students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly punished by the agents of the gods whom he refuses to recognise. [Greek text with facing translation, commentary and notes. 2007 reprint of the 1991 third edition, with addenda and a new bibliography.]Trade Review‘For an overall series of the entire corpus, including critical text, commentary, translation, and full introduction, all subsumed to one man’s intelligent analysis and wide-ranging scholarship, Sommerstein stands triumphantly alone. [...] Aristophanes is lucky to have so devoted, erudite, and witty a modern celebrant.’Scholia‘This work is a fine and unpretentious introduction to Aristophanic comedy.’Journal of Hellenic Studies'Sommerstein has exercised throughout the refreshing independence of judgement, backed by learning.’JACTTable of ContentsPrefaceAddenda 2007Select BibliographyBibliography to CloudsReferences and AbbreviationsCLOUDS Introductory Note Select Bibliography Note on the Text Sigla Text and Translation Notes
£27.99
Goose Lane Editions Beatitudes
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£14.39
Goose Lane Editions Dust or Fire
Book SynopsisIs this life a route or a destination? Alyda Faber''s assured début examines the ties that bind us to one another and to the Earth we inhabit, and asks the question, What is left of us when we are gone? In the quiet and unsettling poems of Dust or Fire, Faber speaks from the grief following death to explore the meaning of love and family. She is not afraid of gaps and ellipses, finding music in the silences. Her unflinching gaze explores the imperfections of our fleeting existence, our ambitions and relationships, our flawed humanity. Documenting the search for home, the longing to belong, to love and be loved, she turns to the ways love can curve toward pain, how we carelessly hurt one another, but also how we find the grace to forgive and carry on. Dust or Fire is a moving collection, at once grounding and uplifting.
£14.39
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Essential Iliad
Book SynopsisWhile preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this bare-bones abridgement highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature, and in Western civilization surveys.
£11.99
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Antigone
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA lucid, well-paced translation, natural enough sounding in the dialogue to make a good acting version, and remarkably successful in making the choruses clear, lyrical, and yet part of the dramatic movement. Woodruff's rendering of the choruses especially impresses me by the way he manages to render complex syntax and imagery of the original--often tangled and occasionally obscure in its allusiveness--into clear and genuinely poetic English. --Joseph Russo, Haverford CollegeWhen a play has been translated as many times as the Antigone, a new version has to have some remarkable qualities in order to merit attention. Happily, Woodruff's Antigone has just that. Most notably, his text is performable: when read aloud it displays real pace and force. . . . Of course, performability is often gained at the expense of what we might call 'faithfulness' to the original text--and in practical terms, this means that a performance translation rarely serves well as a teaching text. Woodruff, then, has pulled off a remarkable feat in that this edition will serve the teacher and student of Sophocles as well as it would the actor. The original line numbers are preserved and the text is seldom distorted: Woodruff is aware that the words used by Sophocles matter, and employs footnotes to good effect to explain points of linguistic and cultural interest in a concise and accessible way. The flavour of Sophocles' play is also preserved by the stage directions, which are envisaged in terms of the ancient rather than the modern stage. The choral odes--which are translated with particular clarity--are also marked and divided into strophes and antistrophes. What also sets the translation apart is the quality of the introduction and appendices, which are both well informed and address the reader in a direct way. Woodruff succeeds in being straightforward but not patronizing and whilst his target audience is presumably a student of A-level or university level, this edition would be a good starting point for any intelligent adult who wished to read the play. Woodruff frames scholarly debates in such a way as to invite reaction from the reader and to encourage informed debate. Notable, too, is that he strives to keep the text 'open': as well as presenting different scholarly views on the play, he even provides 'Endnotes' where he provides information on readings of the manuscripts, thus providing access to debates from which the student is normally excluded. As part of this project--and refreshingly in my view--he makes his own presence felt: he informs us as to his own views on the play and spells out his objectives as a translator, thus opening up yet another aspect of investigation and debate. This is a provocative edition of the Antigone, which fulfills many of its high ambitions. For me, the vibrancy of Woodruff's approach to the play shines through, giving us a text just waiting to be read aloud, discussed and debated. --James Robson, The Joint Association of Classical Teachers Review
£10.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Flowers of Evil
Book SynopsisIn the annals of literature, few single volumes of poetry have achieved the influence and notoriety of The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) by Charles Baudelaire.
£16.14
North Point Press Duino Elegies
Book SynopsisWho, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelicorders? and even if one of them pressed mesuddenly to his heart: I''d be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure,and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdainsto destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.-from The First ElegyOver the last fifteen years, in his two volumes of New Poems as well as in The Book of Images and Uncollected Poems, Edward Snow has emerged as one of Rainer Maria Rilke''s most able English-language interpreters. In his translations, Snow adheres faithfully to the intent of Rilke''s German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English. Written in a period of spiritual crisis between 1912 and 1922, the poems that compose the Duino Elegies are the ones most frequently identified with the Rilkean sensibility. With
£14.40
Beacon Press New and Selected Poems vume 2
Book SynopsisUnderstand, I am always trying to figure outwhat the soul is,and where hidden,and what shape-New and Selected Poems, Volume Two, an anthology of forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-and sixty-nine poems hand-picked by Mary Oliver from six of her last eight books, is a major addition to a career in poetry that has spanned nearly five decades. Now recognized as an unparalleled poet of the natural world, Mary Oliver writes with unmatched dexterity and a profound appreciation for the divergence and convergence of all living things.Mary Oliver is always searching for the soul of things. In poem after poem, her investigations go from the humble green bean that nourishes her and makes her wonder if something/-I can't name it-watches as I walk the/rows, accepting the gift of their lives/to assist mine to the vast, untouchable bliss of things you can't reach./But you can reach out to them, and all day long./The wind, the bird flying away./The
£999.99
Peepal Tree Press Ltd Navel String
Book SynopsisAdrian Augier is an award-winning poet and producer whose previous collections of poetry include "Bridgemaker," "Genesis," "Of Many Voices," "Out of Darkness," and "Tears & Triumphs." He is a founder of the Lighthouse Theatre Company and the Factory Creative Arts Centre, as well as the director of the St. Lucia Arts Festival Company. He was the 2010 Caribbean Laureate for Arts and Letters, awarded by the ANSA McAL Foundation.
£999.99
Poetry Ireland Ltd. Poetry Ireland Review: A WB Yeats Special Issue:
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£9.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cornelius
Book Synopsis"So all the time, while you were pretending to work, you've been having the most astonishing adventures in that corner?" A forgotten masterpiece from one of Britain’s greatest dramatists, J.B. Priestley. As bankruptcy looms, the ever optimistic Jim Cornelius, partner at import firm Briggs and Murrison, is fighting to keep his creditors happy and his spirits up. Tensions rise with the arrival of Judy, the beautiful, young typist who shows Cornelius the life he could have led... Written for Ralph Richardson in 1935, Priestley observes the politics and tensions of daily office life with searing wit and humanity in this hilarious and heart-breaking story of friendship, unrequited love and business.Trade Review"'[An] attractively strange and surprising 1935 play' - Whats on Stage 'a high quality, polished exploration of an era that is sometimes peculiarly familiar and at other times entertainingly unexpected.' - The Stage 'engaging and well-judged - an intriguing period piece that speaks to our times in its tragicomic depiction of the anxieties, humour, despair and obstinate hopes of an age of recession.' - Independent 'Strikes a resounding contemporary chord' - Metro 'On the one hand "Cornelius" is a warm, entertainingly old-fashioned, well-made drama - At the same time it coolly portrays the casualties of an economic system spinning off its axis.' New York Times"
£12.58
Diaphanes AG Here Lies preceded by The Indian Culture
Book Synopsis“Here Lies” preceded by “The Indian Culture” collects two of Antonin Artaud’s foremost poetic works from the last period of his life. He wrote both works soon after his release from the psychiatric hospital of Rodez and his return to Paris, and they were published during the flurry of intensive activity and protests against his work’s censorship. The Indian Culture is the first and most ambitious work of Artaud’s last period. It deals with his travels in Mexico in 1936 where Artaud sets aside his usual preoccupations with peyote and the Tarahumara people’s sorcerers to directly anatomize his obsessions with gods, corporeality, and sexuality. Here Lies is Artaud’s final declaration of autonomy for his own body from its birth to its imminent death, won at the cost of multiple battles against the infiltrating powers amassed to steal that birth and death away from him. Both works demonstrate Artaud’s final poetry as a unique amalgam of delicate linguistic invention and ferociously obscene invective. “Here Lies” preceded by “The Indian Culture” was translated by the award-winning translator Clayton Eshleman, widely seen as the preeminent translator into English of Artaud’s work, with its profound intensity and multiply nuanced language. For the first time since its first publication, this bilingual edition presents the two works in one volume, as Artaud originally intended. This edition also features a contextual afterword by Stephen Barber as well as new material, previously untranslated into English.
£11.78
Nick Hern Books A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Book SynopsisA bawdy, fast-paced, raunchy comedy musical from one of the world's most influential and innovative creators of musical theatre, loosely based on the plays of Plautus. Pseudolus, a simpering slave, is trying to win his own freedom by cooking up a romance for his master's son, Hero, with the pretty young virgin Philia. But there's a problem – not only is Philia owned by Marcus Lycus, an infamous courtesan dealer, but she's also already promised to swaggering soldier Miles Gloriosus... and neither of them are keen to give her up. Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, with a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, ran for three years on Broadway. The first British production, starring Frankie Howerd as the cowardly slave Pseudolus, ran almost as long and spawned the TV series Up Pompeii! A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Musical.Trade Review'The funniest, bawdiest and most enchanting musical that Plautus, with a little help from Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove and Lary Belbart, ever wrote' * New York Times *'Spectacularly generous when it comes to the gags... one of the most exuberant opening numbers ever penned... The comic plot never stops boiling in a show that creates mounting farcical mayhem with rare precision... a brilliantly crafted hit... preposterously enjoyable' * Daily Telegraph *'A brilliant synthesis of stock characters from Plautus... a vertiginously funny show' * Guardian *'Simply irresistible... blissfully hilarious... a glorious gag-fest... A delirium of good, clean, filthy fun... a cornucopia of delight' * Independent *'Gloriously mischievous' * The Times *'Delightful... just sit back and enjoy it' * Financial Times *
£12.59
Nick Hern Books Table
Book SynopsisSix generations, twenty-three characters one very special piece of furniture. Tanya Ronder's thrilling play is an epic tale of belonging, identity and the things we pass on. Table was the first play to be staged in The Shed, a temporary venue at the National Theatre, London, to celebrate original, ambitious and unexpected theatre. It premiered in April 2013 in a production directed by Rufus Norris.Trade Review'Highly inventive and often touching... there is a great deal of humour, but the play is also dark, sharply depicting the sad human truth that we often inflict the worst pain on those we love, or are supposed to love' * Telegraph *'Tremendous... richly textured' * Guardian *
£9.99
Graywolf Press,U.S. The Renunciations: Poems
Book SynopsisThe Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one's sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and sanctuaries even in their most devastating confrontations with what a person can bear, with how families harm themselves. With the companionship of "the oracle"-an observer of memory who knows how each close call with oblivion ends-the act of remembrance becomes curative, and personal mythologies give way to a future defined less by wounds than by possibility. In this gorgeous and heartrending second collection, we find the home one builds inside oneself after reckoning with a legacy of trauma-a home whose construction starts "with a razing."
£15.30
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co The Theban Plays: Antigone, King Oidipous and
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£18.99
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Acharnians
Book SynopsisAnother in the Focus Classical Library modern translations of works from the Classical world. This series of translations is noted for the clarity of translation and fidelity to the intent of the original work, with notes and an introduction that provide the student with access to the intent of the author in the original. As such these works are outstanding for their ability to provide the reader with the sense of the original as it was understood in its time and an excellent starting point for any interpretation or adaptation. The Acharnians is one of Aristophanes' anti-war comedies.
£12.34
Graywolf Press Recyclopedia Trimmings SPerMKT and Muse Drudge
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£14.24
Beacon Press Evidence
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£20.40
Carcanet Press Ltd Arrow
Book SynopsisWinner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021. Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021. Arrow is a debut volume extraordinary in ambition, range and achievement. At its centre is 'Dear, beloved', a more-than-elegy for her younger sister who died suddenly: in the two years she took to write the poem, much else came into play: 'it was my hope to write the mood of elegy rather than an elegy proper,' following the example of the great elegists including Milton, to whose Paradise Lost she listened during the period of composition, also hearing the strains of Brigit Pegeen Kelly's Song, of Alice Oswald and Marie Howe. The poem becomes a kind of kingdom, 'one that is at once evil, or blighted, and beautiful, not to mention everything in between'. As well as elegy, Chakraborty composes invocations, verse essays, and the strange extended miracle of the title poem, in which ancient and modern history, memory and the lived moment, are held in a directed balance. It celebrates the natural forces of the world and the rapt experience of balance, form and - love. She declares a marked admiration for poems that 'will write into being a world that already in some way exists'. This is what her poems achieve.Trade Review'This powerful and endlessly mysterious collection of poems is a book of fables, of spells, of revised narratives, and of realigned songs, brightly lifted above our bodies by music that is as unpredictable as it is marvelous. The lyricism is everywhere apparent as Sumita Chakraborty addresses us, our bodies and their stories, our planet, and our sense of time itself. How does she do it? Mad Ireland hurt him into poetry, W.H. Auden wrote about Yeats, and as the hurt enters Chakraborty's language, we see that in speech violated, sounds and meanings - and even the oldest of human mysteries, like 'the etymology of love' - are redefined. All one can do is repeat: this is an endlessly compelling book. Bravo.' - Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic; 'About a quarter of the way through Sumita Chakraborty's Arrow, the reader encounters an impossible poem called 'Dear, beloved.' It's impossible because who could write it? It's as large, in its way, as any epic, but as compressed as any lyric, and as beautiful as any lyric, but as foundational as any epic, but it seems to come after all things, though it seems, also, diurnal. And it's impossible also because it's a highlight, not the highlight, of Arrow, a debut as assured as any first or last book, as compelling as any, as well-made.' - Shane McCrae, author of The Gilded Auction Block; 'I stand in awe of Sumita Chakraborty's visionary collection, by turns epic and compressed in scope, weighty in its tapestry-like materiality and sleekly dynamic as an arrow... Seamless and diverse in form, cosmic in subject and image.' - Diane Seuss, author of Four-Legged Girl
£10.99
Edinburgh University Press Walking North with Keats
Book SynopsisCapturing the landscapes, landmarks, poetry and letters of Keats's epic walk, Carol Kyros Walker retraced Keats's footsteps originally in 1978-1979 and again in the autumns of 2015 and 2016 allowing readers to 'walk' alongside him.
£30.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Death of England
Book SynopsisClint Dyer: On stage he has worked with heralded directors like Mike Leigh, Simon Mcburney, Dominic Cooke, Micheal Attenbourgh, Jane Howel, Ian Brown, Mike Bradwell, Madani Yohonis, Gbolahan Obesisan, Dawn Walton, and the legendary Philip Hedley, etc. He starred on stage in the National Theatres Oliver winning show Ma Rainey's Black Bottom directed by Dominic Cook, for which he won best actor in the I.A.R.Awards. Clint won Best actor at the British Urban Film Awards, Screen Nation Film and Television Awards, Liege International Film Festival and The Texas Black Film Festival for SUS' . He was also nominated for the Independent Spirit Award at the Screen Nation Film and Television Awards for SUS'. Clint directed the Olivier, Evening Standard, TMA and What's On Theatre Goers, nominated show THE BIG LIFE', at TRSE, bringing it to the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, makingmit the first Black British musical to go the West End. Also the soon to be seen The Happy Tragedy
£12.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Fosse Plays Six
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£18.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Top Girls
Book SynopsisI believe in the individual. Look at me.Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a world of women''s experience at a pivotal moment in British history. Told by an eclectic group of historical and modern characters in a continuous conversation across ages and generations it was described by The Guardian as the best British play ever from a woman dramatist'. The play opens with an anachronistic dinner party hosted by Marlene, the newly-promoted manager of the Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: a female Pope, a courtesan-cum-nun, a tireless adventurer, an obedient wife from Chaucer and the leader of a charge into hell from a Bruegel painting. The feminist themes introduced by this cacophonous scene echo throughout the more contemporary action of the play, as Churchill uses the setting of the Top Girls' agency to allow a glimpse into the lives of several very different working womeTrade ReviewTop Girls has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert. You can smell life, and at the same time feel locked in an argument with an agile and passionate mind * John Peter, Sunday Times *Ms Churchill is one of our best writers…her play is brilliantly conceived with considerable wit to illuminate the underlying deep human seriousness of her theme * Spectator *A playwright of genuine audacity and assurance, able to use her considerable wit and intelligence in ways at once unusual, resonant and dramatically riveting -- Benedict Nightingale * New Statesman *The work build to a superb emotion-draining climax that sent me out of the theatre convinced that this is the best British play ever from a woman dramatist -- Michael Billington * Guardian *Table of ContentsForeword by Ann McFerran The Play
£18.21
Faber & Faber Zinnie Harris Plays 1
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£18.00
Pan Macmillan Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year
Book SynopsisFrom Allie Esiri, editor of the bestselling A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Poem for Every Night of the Year, comes this beautiful audio anthology of Shakespeare's works.William Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays, 154 sonnets and a handful of longer poems and you can discover them all here. Each track of this unique collection contains an extract, which might be a famous poem, quote or scene, matched to the date, performed by leading actors such as Sir Simon Russell Beale, Helen McCrory, and Damian Lewis. Allie Esiri's introductions give her readers a new window into the work, time and life of the greatest writer in the English language. Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year is perfect for listening or sharing and brings you Shakespeare’s best-known and best-loved classics alongside lesser known extracts read by a range of award-winning Shakespearean actors. Esiri’s entertaining and insightful thoughts on each entry will fill your year with wonder, laughter, wisdom and wit.The complete cast of performers are: Sir Simon Russell Beale, Helen McCrory, Damian Lewis, Hattie Morahan, Pappa Essiedu, Jade Anouka, Ben Allen and Jot Davies.
£20.39
Lexington Books Ecotheology and Love
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£999.99
The New York Review of Books, Inc Say Something Back & Time Lived, Without Its Flow
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£14.40
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Other Place
Book SynopsisAlexander Zeldin is a writer, director and the founder of A Zeldin Company (AZC). Zeldin has made work in South Korea, the Middle East, Russia and at the Naples Festival, before developing projects as a teacher at East 15, and working as an assistant director to Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne. For the National Theatre: LOVE, Faith, Hope and Charity and The Confessions. Other theatre includes: Beyond Caring (transferred to the National's Temporary Theatre) at The Yard, a German version directed by Zeldin was produced in 2022, and is currently in repertoire at the Schaubühne, Berlin; and Une Mort dans la Famille at Odéon-Theâtre de l'Europe and on European tour.
£13.39
University of California Press Robert Duncan
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Relentlessly beautiful. . . . Everything seems to be here, laying the groundwork for a major career.” * Publishers Weekly *"Reminds us that [Duncan] wrote some of the most stunningly beautiful lines in postwar American poetry." -- Micah Mattix * Books & Culture *
£27.00
£24.99
Aurora Metro Publications Swansea Boy
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£10.99
Nick Hern Books A Table Tennis Play
Book Synopsis‘When does it happen?’ A long summer weekend, two strangers, and a full-size table tennis table. Sam Steiner's A Table Tennis Play is a play about how everything and nothing changes as people bat a ball. It premiered at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in a production by Walrus in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth.Trade Review'Superb… a tense emotional back and forth… each line of Steiner's script holds tremendous jeopardy' * Exeunt Magazine *'Grips tighter and tighter, masterfully dragging the audience down into the insecurities and fears of the players... Nobody writes dialogue quite like Sam Steiner... Zipping between hilarity and horribly affecting emotion, Steiner has a knack of making every single second count, leaving the unsaid hanging brilliantly heavy in the air... thrillingly enticing' * Broadway Baby *'Steiner's gift for dialogue is in full evidence here, using his characters' foibles and idiosyncrasies to illuminate masterfully and without judgement so much that goes unsaid' * Broadway World *'A Table Tennis Play is less concept-driven than Steiner's previous work, but sees him at his finest: whip-smart dialogue is whacked back and forth as themes, desires and thoughts bounce around... riveting... characters that are so vividly drawn... solidifies Steiner's status as a writer with the keenest ear for dialogue, finding magic among a sea of memories. An absolute ace' * WhatsOnStage *'A subtle and beguiling piece of writing, encompassing huge things – grief, the passing of time – and minutiae, ingeniously economical in the way it uses words, with a deliciously offbeat sense of humour... studded with moments of magic and unexpectedly, capsizingly moving narrative swerves' * The Stage *
£9.49
Little, Brown & Company Coming to Age
Book SynopsisThis exquisitely giftable anthology of poems about age and aging reveals the wisdom of trailblazing writers who found power and growth later in life.At eighty-two, the novelist Penelope Lively wrote: Our experience is one unknown to most of humanity, over time. We are the pioneers. Coming to Age is a collection of dispatches from the great poet-pioneers who have been fortunate enough to live into their later years.Those later years can be many things: a time of harvesting, of gathering together the various strands of the past and weaving them into a rich fabric. They can also be a new beginning, an exploration of the unknown. We speak of growing old. And indeed, as we too often forget, aging is growing, growing into a new stage of life, one that can be a fulfillment of all that has come before.To everything there is a season. Poetry speaks to them all. Just as we read newspapers for news of the world, we read poetry for news of ourselves. Poets, particularly those who have lived and written into old age, have much to tell us. Bringing together a range of voices both present and past, from Emily Dickinson and W. H. Auden to Louise Gluck and Li-Young Lee, Coming to Age reveals new truths, offers spiritual sustenance, and reminds us of what we already know but may have forgotten, illuminating the profound beauty and significance of commonplace moments that become more precious and radiant as we grow older.
£18.00
Random House USA Inc Oleanna A Play
Book SynopsisIn a terrifyingly short time, a male college instructor and his female student descend from a discussion of her grades into a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X ray of the mechanisms of power, censorship, and abuse.
£12.40
Random House USA Inc Purgatorio
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£18.70
Random House USA Inc The Beauty of the Husband
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£12.87
Faber & Faber The Cocktail Party
Book Synopsis''Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest.'' Times Literary Supplement''Eliot has attempted here something very daring and well worth doing. He has taken the ordinary West End drawing room comedy convention - understatement, upper-class accents and all - and used it as a vehicle for utterly serious ideas.'' Observer
£10.44
Houghton Mifflin Essays After Eighty
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£12.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Rotterdam
Book SynopsisNo, Alice, I don''t want to become a man, I just want to stop trying to be a woman.It's New Year in Rotterdam, and Alice has finally plucked up the courage to email her parents and tell them she's gay. But before she can hit send, her girlfriend reveals that he has always identified as a man and now wants to start living as one.Now Alice must face a question she never thought she'd ask . . . does this mean she''s straight?A bittersweet comedy about gender, sexuality and being a long way from home.Rotterdam received its world premiere at Theatre503, London, in October 2015, before transferring to Trafalgar Studios, London, in May 2016. This volume contains introductory commentary and notes by Stephen Farrier from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. METHUEN DRAMA STUDENT EDITIONS are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires. As well as the complete text of the play itself, this volume contains:- an introductTrade Review(Rotterdam) speaks eloquently about a complex issue while at the same time being properly laugh-out-loud funny * Stage magazine *Table of ContentsThe introduction and commentary to the play will cover: Introduction to Author's Life and Work Contexts: historical, political and social (focusing on sexuality and gender, and including terminology) Themes: identity, intergenerational relationships, secrets and truth-telling, friendship Dramaturgy and Genre Production History and Reception Scene-by-Scene Summary Play-text Further Reading
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