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Book SynopsisFive outstanding new plays by Black and Asian writers in a collection frequently used in schools and colleges to explore contemporary society, identity, globalisation, the mental health system and discrimination.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Afia Nkrumah Harvest by Majula Padmanabhan Made in England by Parv Bancil Brother to Brother by Michael McMillan Calcutta Kosher by Shelley Silas Under Their Influence by Wayne Buchanan Bibliography by Susan Croft

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Book SynopsisA long line of traditional, often conservative, criticism and cultural commentary deplored Byron as a slipshod poet. This pithy yet aptly poetic book, written by one of the world''s foremost Romantic scholars, argues that assessment is badly mistaken. Byron''s great subject is what he called ''Cant'': the habit of abusing the world through misusing language. Setting up his poetry as a laboratory to investigate failures of writing, reading, and thinking, Byron delivered sharp critical judgment on the costs exacted by a careless approach to his Mother Tongue. Perspicuous readings of Byron alongside some of his Romantic contemporaries Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley reveal Byron''s startling reconfiguration of poetry as a ''broken mirror'' and shattered lamp. The paradoxical result was to argue that his age''s contradictions, and his own, offered both ethical opportunities and a promise of poetic broadly cultural emancipation. This book represents a major contribution to Trade Review'A new book by Jerome McGann is an event, though there have been many such events over his long career. But a new book by him about Byron is a special kind of event. No other scholar has done as much for Byron as McGann has, and few living scholars as much for any single author as he has done for Byron. This book marks a kind of return to origins since, like McGann's first book, Fiery Dust, this one focuses on Byron's work before Don Juan. The new emphasis, however, falls on Byron's relationship to language and poetic craft and on how it differs from that of his major contemporaries. Playful, allusive, and itself 'adverse,' McGann's style in this book, like Byron's own, means to set our language free.' James K. Chandler, William K. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago'Take physic, cant. The words are nowhere, the command everywhere in Byron and McGann. The physic is philology: a word-loving that embraces the cunning, ambivalence, and enthrallments of language along with its beauties and benevolences. If words are actions (and who today could doubt that), McGann's 'inner standing point' (D. G. Rossetti) on Byron is as a sword that divides, setting fiction against factitiousness, expressive contradiction against the suavities of doublespeak. McGann's 'little book,' as he calls it, is a work of pity and rage; its perfectly measured disorders a min(e)d-field to blast the pieties of the present. Go litel book…' Marjorie Levinson, F. L. Huetwell Professor, University of Michigan'This is a book written with much of Byron's own intelligence, wit, and passion. It pays particular and welcome attention to the 'dark' poems which Professor McGann sees as 'in some ways more impressive than the ottava rima masterpieces'. It moves between very wide perspectives and sustained, often dazzling, close reading helped by his unrivalled knowledge of the textual history.' Bernard Beatty, Bernard Beatty, Senior Fellow in English, Liverpool University and Editor of The Byron Journal 1987–2004'Combative, liberatory, and dazzling, Byron's poetics receive the close attention they deserve in McGann's beautiful book. Byron and the Poetics of Adversity illuminates the full sweep of Byron's poetic experimentation and ruthless unveiling of his culture's cherished illusions in poems such as Manfred, The Giaour, Lara, and Cain, difficult poems often undervalued in favor of the poetic pyrotechnics of the epic Don Juan. McGann's scholarly and playful close readings of the full range of Byron's 'perversifications' and their 'disastered heroes' reveal new dimensions of what made these poems both scandalous and brilliant, and how they engaged with leading writers of the age like Blake and Goethe.' Adriana Craciun, Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities, Boston University'Byron and the Poetics of Adversity is a genuinely revolutionary book in which Professor McGann returns to the textual entanglements of Byron's prosody and looks afresh at the two phases of Byron's poetic career in 1808-16 and 1817-24. Seven brilliant, compelling essays trace the poetic offensives that connect The Giaour, The Corsair, Lara, The Siege of Corinth, shorter lyrics and Manfred with the offensive poetics of Don Juan. Identifying practical criticism as the vital, oppositional act which Byron's poetry commits on its readers and demands from them, this bold and provocative study goes back to where all the ladders start - in close readings of some of the most perverse lines in Romantic period poetry.' Jane Stabler, University of St Andrews'Jerome McGann shows that Byron's 'treasonous' attitude to poetry, his 'perversification,' his unfit and shifty tones, his Blakean refusal of invariable aesthetic systems, his 'spoiler's art' is as pertinent now as it was 200 years ago. By repeatedly exposing the shibboleths of lyric and Romantic verse culture, McGann's sweeping advocacy of Byron's inventive, performative, rhetorical, and adversive genius is a defense of poetry for our time as well.' Charles Bernstein, author of Topsy-TurvyTable of Contents1. Don Juan and the English language; 2. Byron Agonistes, 1809–1816; 3. Manfred: one word for mercy; 4. Byron and the 'Wrong Revolutionary Poetical System'; 5. Byron, Blake, and the adversity of poetics; 6. The stubborn foe: bad verse and the poetry of action.

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Book Synopsis “A stirring drama” (Broadway World) adapted by award-winning playwright Arlene Hutton from the book Sala’s Gift by Ann Kirschner, Letters to Salais a remarkable play about a young girl’s personal and emotional Holocaust journey. Sala Garncarz, daughter of a rabbi and the youngest of 11 children, was 16 in 1940 when she volunteered to take her sister’s place in a Nazi work camp. Over the next five years, she endured seven camps and collected, at great risk to herself, a cache of more than 350 letters, postcards, photographs, and other documents sent to her and others during that time. Sala survived the war and moved to America, where, more than 50 years later, she and her family donated her remarkable collection of letters and documents to the New York Public Library, where it went on to earn wide attention. Through these letters that Sala managed to hide and keep safe, Letters to Sala t

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Book SynopsisPublished in 1850, In Memoriam won its author the Poet Laureateship of Britain and received widespread attention from critics and reviewers, as well as from ordinary readers. The poem was written in memory of Tennyson’s close friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly in 1833; it became an unofficial devotional manual for mourners, including Queen Victoria after the death of Prince Albert. The poem’s scope goes beyond individual grief, however, to the development and extinction of species, audaciously exploring history, evolution, and God’s relationship with humanity. Its formal beauty and emotional resonance make In Memoriam as compelling today as it was for nineteenth-century readers.Matthew Rowlinson’s introduction traces the poem’s composition history and places it in the context of Tennyson’s personal and intellectual development. Historical appendices include writings by Arthur Hallam, Victorian fiction on courtship and marriage, and materials on natural history and evolution.Trade Review“This is a very helpful edition which will be of great value to the student reader. Rowlinson’s introduction, notes and appendices supply the reader with intelligent and useful contextual information and offer an engaging, thoroughly informed guide to the ways in which the poem has been read since first publication.” — Kirstie Blair, University of Stirling“This edition is remarkably comprehensive for such a slim book, including a six-part appendix followed by a reliable and select bibliography, setting good foundations for further reading. The poem’s achievement and legacy are convincingly demonstrated by the fascinating range of appendixed primary sources, including selections from the writings of Arthur Henry Hallam, natural history, Victorian courtship fiction, the poetic sequence form, reviews of In Memoriam, and an extract from Hallam’s Tennyson’s Memoir. These groupings not only prove the central position of primary resources in the valuation of the poem, but establish for undergraduate readers a firm foundation for reference and inference.” — John Francis Davies, Tennyson Research BulletinTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text "In Memoriam" Appendix A: Writings of Arthur Hallam 1. Meditative Fragment 1 [addressed to J.M. Gaskell] 2. Sonnet [After first meeting Emily Tennyson] 3. Sonnet [The garden trees] 4. Translations from Dante, La Vita Nuova 5. From "On Sympathy" Appendix B: Writings on Natural History, Taxonomy, and Evolution, 1802-1844 1. From William Paley, Natural Theology; or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity 2. From Charles Lyell, The Principles of Geology 3. From William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon their History 4. From Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Appendix C: Victorian Courtship and Marriage in Fiction 1. From Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery 2. From Charles Dickens, David Copperfield 3. From Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford Appendix D: The Poetic Sequence, 1827-1854 1. From John Keble, The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holidays Throughout the Year 2. From Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese 3. From Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House: The Betrothal Appendix E: Reviews of In Memoriam, 1850-1855 1. From The Examiner (8 June 1850) [probably by John Forster) 2. From The Literary Gazette (15 June 1850) 3. From The North British Review (August 1850) 4. From The British Quarterly Review (August 1850) 5. From The Eclectic Review (September 1850) 6. From The English Review (September 1850) 7. From Fraser's Magazine (September 1850) [Charles Kingsley] 8. From The Times (28 November 1851) [possibly by Gerard Manley Hopkins] 9. From The Edinburgh Review (October 1855) [Coventry Patmore] Appendix F: From Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDrawing from the same text as the complete Broadview edition of the Tales, which is based on the famous Ellesmere Manuscript, this selected edition also features a critical introduction, marginal glosses in modern English of difficult words, and explanatory footnotes. The most widely taught appendix material from the complete edition is included, along with ten illustrations from the Ellesmere Manuscript.The second edition includes a new glossary, a timeline of Chaucer’s life and times, and detailed headers showing the section and line numbers, making it easier to find a specific section of the poem. Several popular prologues and tales have also been added to the selection: The Cook’s Prologue and Tale, The Friar’s Prologue and Tale, The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale, and The Parson’s Prologue.Trade ReviewBoenig and Taylor have produced a welcome addition to the already-rich offerings available for the study of Chaucer in the classroom. The text hews closely to the Ellesmere Manuscript, making it useful for discussions of manuscript contexts of The Canterbury Tales. And both students and teachers will find the materials that frame the poem to be valuable aids in its study; the introduction offers a concise history of Chaucer and the reception of his work while the excerpted source texts that follow the poem are well chosen and provide crucial context." - Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State UniversityPraise for the complete edition:"With its meticulously edited text, generous glosses and notes, abundant selections from relevant medieval sources, and attractive reproductions of the sumptuous pages of the Ellesmere Manuscript, the Broadview Canterbury Tales will become the obvious choice for teachers, students, and general readers alike." - John T. Sebastian, Loyola University New Orleans"This is the best edition of the Tales I've found to date." - John Marlin, College of Saint ElizabethTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chaucer Timeline The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue The Knight's Tale The Miller's Prologue and Tale The Reeve's Prologue and Tale The Cook's Prologue and Tale The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale The Friar's Prologue and Tale The Summoner's Prologue and Tale The Clerk's Prologue and Tale The Merchant's Prologue and Tale The Franklin's Prologue and Tale The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale The Prioress's Prologue and Tale The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale The Parson's Prologue Chaucer's Retraction Appendix: Background Documents A Basic Chaucer Glossary Bibliography Textual Sources List

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Book SynopsisE. Pauline Johnson, also known as Tekahionwake, is remarkable as one of a very few early North American Indigenous poets and fiction writers. Most Indigenous writers of her time were men educated for the ministry who published religious, anthropological, autobiographical, political, and historical works, rather than poetry and fiction. More extraordinary still, she became both a canonical poet and a literary celebrity, performing on stage for fifteen years across Canada, in the US, and in London. Johnson is now seen as a central figure in the intellectual history of Canada and the United States, and as an important historical example of Indigenous feminism. This edition collects a diverse range of Johnson’s writings on what was then called “the Indian question” and on the question of her own complex Indigenous identity.Six thematic sections gather Johnson’s poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and a rich selection of historical appendices provide context for her public life and her work as a feminist and activist for Indigenous people.Trade Review“More than a century after her death, E. Pauline Johnson continues to surprise, intrigue, and challenge us to ask important questions about the long and often troubled relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada. Margery Fee and Dory Nason have done a commendable job in assembling Johnson’s work in such a way as to demonstrate not only her enduring legacy as a writer, but also, more importantly, her efforts as an early Native activist/feminist who engaged with issues that First Nation, Métis, and Inuit communities still confront on a daily basis. Created in an era during which ‘Indians’ were considered a ‘disappearing race,’ Johnson’s writing serves as a testament to the resilience of Indigenous peoples everywhere, and this book is evidence that her words deserve to be considered as still relevant, and vital, to the ongoing project of decolonizing our nations.” — Richard Monture, McMaster University“This collection represents a significant expansion of the available archive of E. Pauline Johnson’s work, positioning her writing in relationship to other literary and political voices of her era. A rich contribution.” — Beth H. Piatote, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionE. Pauline Johnson: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the Text The Iroquois Confederacy and Loyalism “Canadian Born” (1900) “The Re-interment of Red Jacket” (1885) “‘Brant,’ A Memorial Ode” (1886) “The Lodge of the Law-makers” (1906) “My Mother” (1909) “Heroic Indian Mothers” (1908) “Forty-Five Miles on the Grand” (1892) “A Brother Chief” (1892) “The Brotherhood” (1910) “The Death Cry” (1888) “As Red Men Die” (1890) “The Avenger” (1892) “Her Majesty’s Guest” (1913) “A Pagan in Saint Paul’s Cathedral” (1906) “We-hro’s Sacrifice” (1907) “The Happy Hunting Grounds” (1889) The Plains and the Second Riel Resistance “A Cry from an Indian Wife” (1895) “Wolverine” (1893) “Silhouette” (1894) “The Cattle Thief” (1894) “A Request” (1886) “The Indian Corn Planter” (1897) “The Haunting Thaw” (1907) Dreams, Rivers, and Winds “At the Ferry” (1886) “The Song My Paddle Sings” (1892) “His Majesty, the West Wind” (1894) “Shadow River” (1889) “Kicking Horse River” (1894) “Moonset” (1894) Women and Children “A Strong Race Opinion: On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction” (1892) “A Red Girl’s Reasoning” (1893) “Dawendine” (1895) “Ojistoh” (1895) “The Derelict” (1896) “The Pilot of the Plains” (1891) “Lullaby of the Iroquois” (1896) • 190 “The Corn Husker” (1896) • 190 Residential School “As It Was in the Beginning” (1899) “His Sister’s Son” (1896) “Little Wolf-Willow” (1907) The West Coast “The Potlatch” (1910) “Catharine of the Crow’s Nest” (1910) “Hoolool of the Totem Poles” (1911) “The Tenas Klootchman” (1911) “A Squamish Legend of Napoleon” (1910) “The Legend of the Ice Babies” (1911) “The Lost Lagoon” (1910) Appendix A: On Johnson From Garth Grafton / Sara Jeannette Duncan, Interview with E. Pauline Johnson, “Women’s World,” Toronto Globe (14 October 1886) W.D. Lighthall, “Miss E. Pauline Johnson,” Songs of the Great Dominion (1889) Hector Charlesworth, “Miss Pauline Johnson’s Poems,” Canadian Magazine (1895) Horatio Hale, Review of The White Wampum, The Critic (4 January 1896) “From Wigwam to Concert Platform,” Evening Telegraph [Dundee] (4 July 1906) Charles Mair, “Pauline Johnson: An Appreciation,” The Moccasin Maker (1913) Gilbert Parker, Introduction, The Moccasin Maker (1913) Ernest Thompson Seton, “Tekahionwake (Pauline Johnson),” Introduction, The Shaganappi (1913) From Theodore Watts-Dunton, “In Memoriam: Pauline Johnson,” Introduction, Flint and Feather: Collected Verse (1913) Appendix B: Writings by Women Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, “On Leaving My Children John and Jane at School” (1851) Margaret Fuller, “Governor Everett Receiving the Indian Chiefs, November, 1837” (1844) From Sarah Winnemucca, “Domestic and Social Moralities” (1883) Inshata Theamba (“Bright Eyes”) / Susette La Flesche, Introduction to William Justin Harsha’s Ploughed Under: The Story of an Indian Chief (1881) From Anna Julia Cooper, “Woman versus the Indian” (1892) Sophia Alice Callahan, “Is This Right?,” Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891) Zitkala-Ša / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, “Why I Am a Pagan,” Atlantic Monthly (December 1902) From Zitkala-Ša / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, “An Indian Teacher among Indians,” Atlantic Monthly (March 1900) Appendix C: On the Six Nations Duncan Campbell Scott, “The Onondaga Madonna” (1898) W.D. Lighthall, “The Caughnawaga Beadwork Seller” (1889) Walt Whitman, “Red Jacket (From Aloft)” (1885) Ely S. Parker / Donehogawa, Speech at the Ceremony to Re-inter Red Jacket (1885) From Arthur C. Parker, “Certain Important Elements of the Indian Problem,” American Indian Magazine (1915) Appendix D: Canadian Residential Schools From Nicholas Flood Davin, Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds (14 March 1879) From Peter Henderson Bryce, The Story of a National Crime (1922) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisIn a secularized society, what kind of faith in our collective powers and imaginations can be patch-worked together, and what might be the role of angels? Through multiple locales, languages, and spiritualities, A Bouquet Brought Back from Space both subverts and sublimates traditions of religious poetry, love poetry, and song.Playful in form and formed full of play, this fourth book of poetry by Kevin Spenst explores loss, love and faith through the palindrome, Madlib, Fibonacci, found poem, prose poem, sonnet and various strains of free verse. Spenst meditates on mental health, poetic friendships and influences, and the possibility of there being an angel assigned to the Mennonites at the beginning of their global journey.These poems sing, cry, and soothe.

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Book SynopsisRita Ann Higgins' poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live on radio from RTÉ's Brendan O'Connor Show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holiday poems heard on the show and many others, sets a tone for all seasons. From bank holidays to saints' days and many other annual celebrations on the Irish calendar year, they are at times uplifting, at times nostalgic, always reflective of real life. With poems such as Lúnasa, I Thought Saw St. Brigit Today, My Mother Loved Me in Red, The Púca, Visiting My Father at Christmas and All Souls' Day, The Long Weekend leaves no question that Rita Ann Higgins is the people's poet.

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Book SynopsisSpanning almost ten years and embracing a remarkable range of style and subject matter, this third volume of Churchill's Collected Plays, introduced by the author, contains: Icecream - an unsettling look at British attitudes to America, and vice versa Mad Forest - Churchill's response to the Romanian Revolution The Skriker - a 'spellbinding' piece combining English folk tales with modern urban life Thyestes - a 'bleakly eloquent new translation of Seneca's Roman tragedy' (Sunday Times). Plus two collaborative pieces combining word and dance: Lives of the Great Poisoners - a libretto to music by Orlando Gough and choreography by Ian Spink A Mouthful of Birds - written with David Lan Caryl Churchill has been hailed as 'a dramatist who must surely be amongst the best half-dozen now writing' The Times

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Book SynopsisA travel book, a memoir and a discursive essay on family life, love, deep sea diving, swimming in the Mediterranean and the underwater sound-systems of hotels around the world, this title is a paean to the south of France, taking the reader by way of the trenches of WWI and the Rainbow Warrior bombing to the experiences of diving off Menton.

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Book SynopsisValence. Considering war through poetry and theory is a powerful rage against the brutality and greed of war; against the particular suffering of women in war; against our indifference but more importantly, our sense of powerless in the face of wars most of us neither support nor would ever instigate. Here is a poet of moral conscience in the fine tradition of Adrienne Rich; a poet writing across boundaries; striving with each form to elucidate, illuminate, change.Trade ReviewThis is what a lifetime of feminism is all about finally, going out to the edge and finding your sisters there. Thank you so very much for this profound work. Kathleen Barry, author, "Unmaking War, Remaking Men"

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Book SynopsisThe poets whose work is included in this anthology were born in the 1960s, when Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union, and mostly started publishing after the country achieved independence in 1991. Unlike their predecessors, the poets of this generation are not concerned with political themes but rather with issues of aesthetics and existential quests. While each follows his or her unique path, they all share a penchant for experimentation and an ironic, post-modern perspective, following European literary trends rather than domestic poetic traditions.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface.A Short Introduction to Lithuanian Poetry.AIDAS MARCENAS (translated by Jonas Zdanys and Laima Vince). Biography. My Uncle, The Bridge, Let's talk about Revenge, Arts Poetica, An International Forum, Critique of Pure Reason, The Doors through which Love leaves, To Albion, Hell's Drawer, A Real Poem, More and More Used Motor Oil, What stays with You, Kingletish.KESTUTIS NAVAKAS (translated by Jonas Zdanys). Biography. The Sand Clock, From an Unknown Poet's Diary: Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , Saturday, Sunday, Sunday Plus, Sonnets: First, Second, Tenth, Eleventh.SIGITAS PARULSKIS (translated by Medeine Tribinevicius and Laima Vince). Biography. Cold, A Subjective Chronicle, The Genesis of Teeth, The Wall, In Memoriam of a Mouse, Something accustoms Us to see, Together, Poetic Interests, The Little Broom, Empty, Squirrels. GINTARAS GRAJAUSKAS (translated by E. Alisanka and Kerry Shawn Keys). Biography. How to conquer the Berserk, The Frequency of God is 50 Hz, "having traipsed around and lined his pocketsA...", The Little Buddha, Such a Comic Strip, Some Kafka, It's Him, Poetry Readings, Sincerely , "I'm building a barricadeA...", Screen, What is at the Centre of the Internet .DAIVA CEPAUSKAITE (translated by Jonas Zdanys, E. Alisanka and Kerry Shawn Keys). Biography. "SundayA...", Lullaby for a Loved One, How to get into Paradise, I want to say, "There is a gameA...", "A little bit of sunsetA...", The Witch, "It's like SpringA...", "It's time to go to bedA...", Poetry. EUGENIJUS ALISANKA (translated by the author and Kerry Shawn Keys). Biography. From the Case of Bones, The Rats, Essay on Lithuanian Literature, Nothing Better for Men, How I know You, Anatomy of Hearing, The Autumn of Epicurus, Start of the Touring Season, Curriculum Vitae, The Pleasure of the Text. Barthes, Script, Photosession, With my Own Kind. About the translators.

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Book SynopsisAn epic love story told across four centuries by Sunderland-born Tanya Sealt, a woman who cannot age until she has cried. Collector of Tears is a play about about history, oppression and loss. Taking both male and female lovers, Tanya is an outcast. She carries with her an amazing collection of glass tear bottles which she tenderly unpacks before telling their stories. On the day of Margaret Thatcher's resignation on 22 November 1990, Tanya finally stands her ground and fights those who have hunted her and her lovers, male and female, down through time; finally learning how to cry. Best North East new play of 2014 by the British Theatre Guide.Trade Review“... a sweeping epic of a monologue that traverses centuries yet concerns itself with the most intimate of emotions. Full of surprising poetry, an artful weave of half-remembered myths, it is a theatrical Orlando for our times.” Colin Teevan, Professor of Playwriting, Birkbeck University “...It's a flawless fusion of writing, performance, design and lighting... Moving and often amusing, this is a beautifully written and performed piece of work.” David Chadderton, British Theatre Guide “...a stirring, thought-provoking and uplifting piece of theatre.” Steve Burbridge, UK Theatre NetworkTable of Contentscollector of tears ghost-tag ryan yr tits are leakin widescream chair held aloft when i return as lenin cocoon

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Book SynopsisNever published in verse form before, these translations of some of the earliest known German poetry give us a rich glimpse of a life that, while alien in so many ways, was not so different after all. The Minnesang poets, for example, engage in a highly professional ritual, but compose in cognitive metaphors that still ring true: love is a trap; love is a game; love is war. A beautiful, lyrical journey through the passions and fears of pre-Medieval German life, told by some of its finest poetic voices.

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Book SynopsisPoet and illustrator Siôn Tomos Owen's book is full of colour and passion about life as a father and patriot from Rhondda Valley, and deals with family, community, brotherhood, politics and mental health issues. Includes the poet's black and white illustrations. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

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Book SynopsisPeople say they want justice, but they dont. Not really. What they want is power. They want to play God. Theyve no concept of what that means. What it takes. I had that power, I had the brilliance to wield it. From his cell in the early hours of the morning, Harold Shipman breaks his silence to record a confessional tape, laying down his version of events as he prepares to take one last life. The Quality of Mercy premiered at The Courtyard Theatre in London in 2022 in a production directed by Bernie C Byrnes.

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