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Cambridge University Press Aristophanes Frogs Cambridge Translations from
Book SynopsisTreating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis. Numerous practical questions stimulate ideas on staging and encourage students to explore the play''s dramatic qualities. Frogs is suitable for students of Classical Civilisation and Drama. Features include a full synopsis of the play, commentary alongside translation for easy reference and a comprehensive introduction to the Greek Theatre. Frogs is aimed at A-level and undergraduate students in the UK, and college students in North America.
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Faber & Faber Lupercal
Book SynopsisLupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'.
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Faber & Faber Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
Book SynopsisWhen Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent of poets.Cope has an extraordinary canny sense quite rare among poets of what will engage a reader's attention.' Poetry ReviewA jet-age Tennyson.' London Review of BooksLike Larkin and Harrison, Cope has proven that a popular poetry is possible without compromising quality.' Acumen Series
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Faber & Faber Omeros
Book SynopsisA poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement - and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.
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Faber & Faber Murmuring Judges
Book SynopsisA young lawyer''s involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system - police, courts and prisons - which is cracking at the seams.Murmuring Judges is the second play in David Hare''s highly acclaimed trilogy about British institutions. Racing Demon, which won four awards as Play of the Year in 1990, was the first part of the trilogy and examined the Church. The Absence of War, a play about the Labour Party, completed the trilogy.
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Faber & Faber The Oresteia
Book SynopsisThe Oresteia comprises three of the greatest plays of all time: Agamemnon, The Cheophori and The Eumenides. Concerned with the immediate aftermath of the Trojan War as it affects the accursed royal house of Atreus, it follows a singularly harrowing course, from the bloodiest domestic discord to divine intervention and reconciliation. Ted Hughes's translation was written in his most pared-down and powerfully driven verse, at once equal to Aeschylus's tragic vision and speaking directly to modern audiences and readers. The plays were first performed at the National Theatre in 1999 under the direction of Katie Mitchell.
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Faber & Faber Alan Bennett Plays 2 Kafkas Dick Insurance Man
Book SynopsisThis second volume of plays by Alan Bennett includes his two Kafka plays, one an hilarious comedy, the other a profound and searching drama. Also included is An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution. The fascination of these two plays lies in the way they question our accepted notions of treachery and, in different ways, make a sympathetic case for Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt.
£17.09
Faber & Faber Poems and Shorter Writings
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together all the poems published by James Joyce in his lifetime, most notably Chamber Music and Pomes Penyeach. It also includes a large body of his satiric or humorous occasional verse, much of which is fugitive and little known to the general reader.
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Faber & Faber The Rattle Bag An Anthology of Poetry 1
Book SynopsisEdited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, and conceived of as a collection of their own favourite poems, The Rattle Bag has established itself as the classic anthology of our time. Heaney and Hughes have brought together an inspired and diverse selection, ranging from undisputed masterpieces to rare discoveries, as well as drawing upon works in translation and traditional poems from oral cultures. In effect, this anthology has transformed the way we define and appreciate poetry, and it will continue to do so for years to come. Including writers from Shakespeare and Blake to Sylvia Plath and T. S. Eliot, The Rattle Bag is eclectic, instructive and inspiring at the same time.Trade Review"'A must for anyone who likes poetry.' Melvyn Bragg, Sunday Times"
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Faber & Faber Selected Poems of Derek Walcott
Book SynopsisThis new Selected Poems offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Walcott has, in the words of Seamus Heaney, ''moved with gradually deepening confidence to found his own poetic domain, independent of the tradition he inherited yet not altogether orphaned from it.''
£15.29
Faber & Faber The Seagull by Anton Chekhov in a new version by
Book Synopsis''Young girl lives on shore of lake since childhood - like you. Loves the lake - like the seagull. Is happy and free - like the seagull. Then one day a man turns up, sees her, and mindlessly destroys her.'' Martin Crimp''s pared down version of Chekhov''s first great play reveals the full force of its comedy and cruelty - whether it''s love, sex, incredible fame, or simply a trip into town, each character is denied the thing they most crave. The Seagull, in a new version by Martin Crimp, premieres at the National Theatre, London, in June 2006.
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Faber & Faber Happiness
Book SynopsisHappiness is the long-anticipated debut collection from Jack Underwood. These bright, beguiling poems worry at the world, surreally exploring the ''reservoir of wrongheaded questions'' with which love and death confront us. Readers will meet life''s strangeness half-way in poems where a childhood horse and recent lover look through a photo album together; where ''sadness is a yacht . . . an anvil dropped from heaven''; fear for a future child is ''a fizz building in a bad grey egg''; a beef steak is ''a question, hung in itself, about blood'', and love is someone ''pausing to move a snail somewhere safer in the rain''. In the unpredictable world of these inventive poems, visualisation becomes an empathetic act, a means of sharing the ''fearful and forgotten things'' we lie to ourselves about.Happiness is a collection preoccupied with the ephemerality of happiness itself, at the ever-present possibility of its departure, and the ways we try to grasp and keep hol
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Faber & Faber Treasure Island
Book SynopsisNot one of us must breathe a word of what we''ve found.It''s a dark and stormy night. Jim, the inn-keeper''s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor''s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in - and her dangerous voyage begins. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson''s classic story of murder, money and mutiny, premiered at the National Theatre, London, in December 2014, in a thrilling adaptation by Bryony Lavery.
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Faber & Faber Hangmen Faber Drama
Book SynopsisI''m just as good as bloody Pierrepoint.In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what''s the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they''ve abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars, dying to hear Harry''s reaction to the news, a peculiar stranger lurks, with a very different motive for his visit.Don''t worry. I may have my quirks but I''m not an animal. Or am I? One for the courts to discuss.Martin McDonagh''s Hangmen premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2015. It won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play 2016.
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Faber & Faber Hedda Gabler
Book SynopsisJust married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free.This vital new version by Patrick Marber (Closer, Three Days in the Country) opened at the National Theatre, London, in December 2016.''A bold, clear, finally harrowing account of the play.'' DAILY TELEGRAPH''Forces us to see Ibsen's masterpiece with fresh eyes.'' GUARDIAN
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Faber & Faber New Selected Poems of W. S. Graham
Book SynopsisGraham's New Collected Poems (2004) marked a crucial point in the growth of his reputation, bringing together for the first time all the poems of his seven collections as well as some of the unpublished material that had come to light since his death in 1986.
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Faber & Faber Never Good with Horses
Book SynopsisThe volume's 'Intro' charts these projects and the blurred origins of ritualised language, while its 'Outro' offers contextualising notes and anecdotal insights.Never Good with Horses further demonstrates the rich range of Armitage's repertoire and celebrates his ear for the music of language, harnessed here for the page.
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Faber & Faber The Breach
Book SynopsisThey won''t even know we won this game. Only you and I will know that we Topped Their Love.Love has no limits for the Diggs siblings: there''s nothing that seventeen-year-old Jude won''t do to keep her younger brother Acton safe. Growing up in the turbulence of 1970s America, Jude works nights and weekends to pay the bills, just so that they can stay together with their mother. But when Acton''s troublesome pals form a club in their basement, a foolish game threatens to upend Jude''s plans and derail their lives forever. Jude will do anything to protect her brother, but someone may have to pay the price. As trust and loyalty are put on the line, hindsight proves devastating in Naomi Wallace''s riveting drama. The Breach opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in May 2022.
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Faber & Faber Reverberation
Book SynopsisYou don''t have to tell me everything at once. Just tell me a little bit. And then a little bit more. And you could just keep telling me until eventually I''d know you.After a tragedy, Jonathan has withdrawn from the world, curtailing his social life to brief encounters with men he meets online. When free spirit Claire moves into the flat upstairs, she tries to coax him out of his shell. Drawn together by their desire for emotional attachment, they form a connection, but the happiness they find is threatened as the past reverberates.Matthew López''s funny, sexy play about loneliness and longing was first performed at Hartford Stage, Connecticut, in 2015. It received its European premiere, in this reshaped version, at the Bristol Old Vic in October 2024.
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Samuel French Ltd The Real Inspector Hound Acting Edition S
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Vintage Publishing Loop of Jade
Book Synopsis*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015**WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015*There is a Chinese proverb that says: It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.' But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots.With extraordinary range and power, the poems build into a meditation on hybridity, intermarriage and love what meaning we find in the world, in art, and in each other. Crossing the bounds of time, race and language, this is an enthralling exploration of self and place, of migration and inheritance, and introduces an unmistakable new voice in British poetry.Trade ReviewOne of the very best books of poems I have read for a long time -- complicated and moving and very accomplished. -- A S Byatt * New Statesman, Books of the Year 2015 *Thoughtful, agile, erudite... [Howe] has a knack for sound and rhyme so delicious you want to say the lines aloud just to feel your tongue around them. And sprinkled throughout are minute observations that make the everyday seem magic. After reading Loop of Jade, the world seems larger and more nuanced than ever before, one of the most wonderful experiences I’ve had reading a contemporary poetry collection. Howe more than holds her own among the heavyweights in a memorable year for new poetry, a year in which poets took our accepted ideas of race, heritage and tradition and blew them wide open. -- Charlotte Runcie * Daily Telegraph *Absolutely amazing... Sarah Howe's Loop of Jade shone with its startling exploration of gender and injustice through place and identity, its erudition, and powerful imagery as well as her daring experiment with form. She brings new possibilities to British poetry. -- Pascale Petit, chair of the T.S. Eliot Prize judgesMature and accomplished... Loop of Jade is one of the best first collections I've read in recent years * Poetry Review *Rich and fierce, Sarah Howe’s poems are alive to the complex stories and voices that cohere around objects, family and place. This is a magnificent collection, surprising and moving in equal measure – I loved it. -- Edmund de WaalA wonderful first collection – it isn’t often you can say exquisite, original, erudite and adventurous all in one breath. Sarah Howe goes to the very heart of her own, her mother’s and China’s recent past. -- Ruth PadelSarah Howe's soulful poems are as vivid as a river flowing through the Chinese landscape, as alive as mothers calling to their children. -- Xinran, author of The Good Women of ChinaA glittering debut exploring dual British and Chinese heritage with beauty and wit -- Charlotte Runcie * Daily Telegraph, Editor's Choice *The poems in Loop of Jade…move me in profound and previously unimaginable ways -- Emma Lee Moss * Guardian *[A] sinuous, shimmering, mirage-like debut collection -- Roger Cox * Scotsman *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The House Of Bernarda Alba
Book SynopsisLorca's tragic tale of the destruction of Bernarda Alba's family following the death of her husband. This Student Edition includes a commentary, chronology, notes and bibliography.Trade Review'Best of all is Ann Mitchell's superb Bernarda Alba, who presides over her daughters like a malevolent mother superior. As polished and shiney as her own furniture, a husk of a woman who puts pride and honour before love and generosity, and who is so out of touch with her own heart that she ignores all the signs of the coming disaster, content to rule her house with her eyes wide shut.' Lyn Gardner, Gaurdian, 30 April 2009 It is a play about what happens to hearts when they are walled up and denied the opportunity to sweel with love and happiness' Lyn Gardener, Gaurdian, 30 April 2009
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Manchester University Press La Casa De Bernarda Alba
Book SynopsisAfter her husband's death, Bernarda Alba forces her five daughters into eight years of strict mourning. The appearance of Pepe El Romano, a man who wishes to marry the eldest daughter, Angustias, unleashes a series of tragic events.Trade Review'Professsor Ramsden gives very good value on the areas discussed. His analysis is exhaustive, scrupulously balanced and illuminating.' Bulletin of Hispanic Studies'This edition's major contribution is the well-conceived and executed introduction. The reader is led on a step-by-step journey through the Lorca text as well as through the particular biographical circumstances that had an impact on the play. The presentation is clear, orderly and intelligent.'Modern Languages Journal -- .Table of Contents1. IntroductionPreliminariesAn outline of the playVitality and RepressionRealism and poetry'La obra más perfecta'?2. Selected bibliography3. La casa de Bernarda Alba4. Endnotes5. Selected vocabulary
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Rp Minis The Raven Talking Figurine
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Beacon Press Homegirls Handgrenades
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Nox
Book SynopsisAnne Carson’s haunting and beautiful Nox is her first book of poetry in five years—a unique, illustrated, accordion-fold-out “book in a box.”Trade Review"The book is an extraordinary object to behold, and more extraordinary to read, but it's hardly accurate to even call it a ‘book.’ It's perhaps 10 feet of paper, folded accordion-like, displaying as near a reproduction of Carson's original collage journal as is possible. The whole thing is folded and packed into a beautiful gray box….The result is breathtaking, evidence of visionary publishing at a moment when the book business is increasingly cynical." -- Publishers Weekly"Trust me: it's an Anne Carson book. Maybe her best....The book is totally recherché and weirdly clear, lingered over and neatly boxed. Precious in the word’s best sense." -- Ben Ratliff - The New York Times Book Review"Carson has . . . created an individual form and style for narrative verse. . . . Seldom has Pound’s injunction ‘Make It New’ been so spectacularly obeyed." -- The New York Review of Books"Anne Carson is a poet who likes to get under people’s skin." -- Melanie Rehak - The New York Times Magazine"Rarely has forking over thirty dollars felt like such a solemn act of memorial." -- New York Review of Books"Nox’s intelligence, sadness, and wry humor alone might be enough, but its form takes me even more. To read is sensual. You handle the folds, opening one winged pair at a time or in quick, slinky unfurlings. And this read is not linear, with pages dissolving behind you as you turn, but spatial, more like letting your eyes wander a room. With the whole book unfurled you see it entire and make links among images, like a staircase or an egg that reappear folds apart, and among words like ash, festive, blush. You prowl the book itself." -- The Millions"She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote." -- Susan Sontag
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Edward III
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAct 1Act 2Act 3Act 4Act 5
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Pan Macmillan Selected Poems
Book SynopsisJen Hadfield is a poet and visual artist living in Shetland. Her first collection, Almanacs, won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003 and her second, Nigh-No-Place, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2008, making her the youngest female poet to receive the award. Her Picador collections are Byssus, published in 2014, and The Stone Age, winner of the Highland Book Prize in 2022. Jen Hadfield's prose memoir Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland appeared from Picador in 2024. She is a 2024 recipient of a Windham Campbell Prize for her poetry.
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Pan Macmillan An Arbitrary Light Bulb
Book SynopsisIan Duhig worked with homeless people for fifteen years before becoming a writer and he is still actively involved with minority and marginalised groups on artistic projects. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Cholmondeley Award recipient, Duhig has won the Forward Best Poem Prize once, the National Poetry Competition twice and been shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize four times. He lives in Leeds with his wife Jane.
£11.69
Austin Macauley Publishers Endure
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Austin Macauley Publishers Where It All Began My Story So Far and More With
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Austin Macauley Publishers Ramblings of a Free Man
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Culture & Democracy Press The Honest Forger new poems and photographs for Iolo Morganwg
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Culture & Democracy Press EXPOSURE war media democracy
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hansel Gretel
Book SynopsisTimes are tough for the family in the woodThey''d eat like kings if only they couldBut hunger gnaws - famine stalks the landSomething quite wicked has the upper hand!Poor mother and father must do what is best...And Hansel and Gretel will be put to the test!Armed with their very last slice of breadWill they eat to surviveOr ........leave..a..........................trail...................................home..............................................instead? The school edition of Carl Grose and Kneehigh Theatre Company''s acclaimed version of Hansel & Gretel, which includes notes for teachers and those studying the play for GCSE English, as written by Anthony Banks.
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Bloomsbury Academic A Gamblers Guide to Dying
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Manic Street Creature
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jajas African Hair Braiding
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Orion Publishing Co And Yet
Book SynopsisFrom Kate Baer, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman, comes her much anticipated second full-length traditional poetry collection, And Yet.I will love and be loved. Save and be saveda thousand times. I will let the want intomy body, bless the heat under my skin.My life, I will not waste it. I will enjoy this life.And Yet dives even deeper into the themes that are the hallmarks of Kate''s writing: motherhood, friendship, love, and loss. Taken together, these poems demonstrate the remarkable evolution of a writer and an artist working at the height of her craft, pushing herself and her poetry in a beautiful and impressive way.In this collection, Kate offers much needed inspiration to find the joy, and the hope, in all of life''s mess and miracles.
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Arcturus Publishing The Flowers of Evil
Book SynopsisCharles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a leading French poet known for his controversial approach. He published his most famous work, Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857, but many of the poems were banned for their explicit material. He died at the age of forty-six on 31 August 1867 in Paris.Born in 1879, Cyril Scott was a writer, composer and occultist who produced music as well as writings on the occult, philosophy and natural health.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Enron
Book SynopsisA play that charts the notorious rise and fall of Enron and its founding partners Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who became 'the most vilified figure from the financial scandal of the century.Trade Review'Lucy Prebble's powerful, pertinent new play Enron shines a startling light on the sudden collapse of the US energy and communications giant' Mark Shenton, Sunday Express, 27.9.09 'Lucy Prebble's hugely ambitious play, covering the rise and fall of the Texan energy company, Enron, is an exhilarating mix of political satire, modern morality and multimedia spectacle.' Michael Billington, Guardian, 23.7.09 'The political theatre of the 21st century has arrived, in some style' Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 23.7.09 'Caryl Churchill's Serious Money skewered the 1980s; Prebble's Enron knifes the Noughties' Robert Hewison, Sunday Times, 26.7.09 'the collapse of US energy giant Enron brilliantly reconfigured by Lucy Prebble as classical tragedy' 'Prebble's great skill lies in her ability to take us through complex concepts with ease, without bemusing or, worse, patronising us.' Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard, 23.7.09 'Lucy Prebble's dazzling play is a firecracker' 'hugely entertaining - and accessible' Charles Spencer, Telegraph, 23.06.09 'Purely electrifying drama.' Mslexia (April 2010)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Punk Rock
Book SynopsisExplores the underlying tensions and potential violence in a group of affluent, articulate seventeen year old students. This title presents the story of seven sixth-formers as they face up to the pressures of teenage life, while preparing for their mock A-levels and trying to get into Oxbridge.Trade Review'Simon Stephens has created a stark, bracing and eventually brutal portrait of adolescent relationships in his new play Punk Rock' Mark Shenton, Daily Express, 13.9.09 'Stephens's play...confronts young people as they really are, and builds inexorably towards its tragic and violent climax.' Michael Billington, Guardian, 9.9.09 'Simon Stephens evokes the twilight world of the teenager with scary vividness' Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 9.9.09 'Simon Stephens' powerful and compelling new play' Michael Coveney, Independent, 10.9.09 'Simon Stephens's cracking new play' Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 10.9.09 'This riveting new work confirms Simon Stephens as one of the most important and exciting British playwrights working today' : 'compassion, insight -- and theatrical panache' : 'The writer's perfectly calibrated setup leads auds to some of the biggest, most complex questions of our times' Karen Fricker, Variety, 09.09.09 'Simon Stephens... writes funny and cruel banter which strikes a truthfully juvenile tone.' Matilda Battersby, Independent, 13.09.10 'The piece is gripping, shocking and ferociously funny as anxieties jitter, hormones fizz and misery festers in the library of a Stockport private school.' Sam Marlowe, Time Out London, 16.09.10 'A fierce and eventually shocking story that really taps into the anxieties of teenage youth' Mark Shenton, Sunday Express, 19.09.10 The dialogue zips along, and students love it; the characters swear and bully, but make clever, biting remarks, and the chemistry between them sizzles through the writing. Teaching Drama, Autumn Term 2 2011/12
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Little, Brown Book Group If They Come For Us
Book Synopsis''Fatimah Asghar writes my heart'' Riz Ahmed''Fatimah Asghar''s debut collection brought me to tears many times over. It is urgent, compelling and filled with fragments of history that have changed the face of the world. Its exploration of queerness, grief, Muslim identity, partition and being a woman of colour in a white supremacist world make this the most essential collection of poems you''ll read this year'' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant, author of The One Who Wrote DestinyPoet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls captures her experience as a Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America, while exploring identity, violence, and healing.an aunt teaches me how to tellan edible flowerfrom a poisonous one.just in case, I hear her say, just in case.Orphaned as a child, Fatimah Asghar grapples with coming of age and Trade ReviewIn forms both traditional...and unorthodox...Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed or flexible. Most vivid and revelatory are pieces such as 'Boy,' whose perspicacious turns and irreverent idiom conjure the rich, jagged textures of a childhood shadowed by loss. - New YorkerFatimah Asghar's debut collection brought me to tears many times over. It is urgent, compelling and filled with fragments of history that have changed the face of the world. Its exploration of queerness, grief, Muslim identity, partition and being a woman of colour in a white supremacist world make this the most essential collection of poems you'll read this year - Nikesh ShuklaWhat an outstanding collection of poetry . . . [I] will be thinking about these poems for a long time to come - GoodreadsA stunning work of art that tackles place, race, sexuality and violence. These poems - both personal and historical, both celebratory and aggrieved - are unquestionably powerful in a way that would doubtless make both Gwendolyn Brooks and Harriet Monroe proud. - Chicago Review of BooksIn this awe-inspiring debut, Asghar, writer of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls," explores the painful, sometimes psychologically debilitating journey of establishing her identity as a queer brown woman within the confines of white America . . . Honest, personal, and intimate without being insular or myopic, Asghar's collection reveals a sense of strength and hope found in identity and cultural history. - Publishers Weekly *starred review*If They Come For Us is a beautiful book of poems that, as powerfully and deeply as any book I've read in a good while, wonders about, explores and laments our many inheritances of violence, which are also inheritances of sorrow, and the ways those inheritances reside in our bodies and imaginations. The ways those inheritances, in fact, structure our bodies and imaginations. And yet, the wonder of this book is the way that throughout the anguish and sorrow and rage, despite it, there is tenderness.
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Little, Brown Book Group The Trees The Trees
Book Synopsis''Heather Christle''s poems may well be one of the places readers turn when they want to know what it was like to be young and paying attention in the early 21st century . . . Her poems are wide awake'' Mark DotyIn The Trees The Trees, each new line is a sharp turn toward joy and heartbreak, and each poem unfolds like a bat through the wild meaninglessness of the world.Trade ReviewIn this wistfully lyrical collection, Christle tends to the fragments of selfhood with an ethereal, dreamlike sensibility. Speaking out with stream-of-conscious urgency, the body is exposed as half-human, half-other and held together by holes. As though gazing up through a luscious canopy of green, each poem becomes a vivid spectacle of play and patchwork, as the form itself is flawlessly consistent in mirroring the mesmeric tapestry of trees * Poetry Book Society *Heather Christle's poems are magicalEcstatic, breathless, full of incandescent humour and wonder . . . Read and love her seemingly spontaneous utterances, spun from her rapt attention to daily life, nature, solitude, romance, to her own reeling and enchanting imaginationHeather Christle's poems may well be one of the places readers turn when they want to know what it was like to be young and paying attention in the early 21st century . . . Her poems are wide awakeAt least once per poem, you feel like the triple-bars just lined up in the slot machine window and you laugh or cry out
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Little, Brown Book Group Skeletons
Book SynopsisONE OF THE NEW YORKER''S BEST BOOKS OF 2023''Deborah Landau''s poems make me feel alive. They are the city, the body, the evening drink transformed into pure essence. If you want to be returned to your senses and remember the pleasures of the world, this book is for you'' Alex Dimitrov''Landau''s stunning collection Skeletons opens: So whatever''s the opposite of a Buddhist that''s what I am, and these are poems wonderfully full of attachments, in love with love, friends, sex, flavours and vistas and language, because isolation it burns. Behind it is all is rage against death, incessant klepto, but Landau is a first-rate phrasemaker and gets down in words life, the full force of it / pressing us together good and hard.'' Nick Laird''Landau captures the ways humans persist, despite our collective anxiety, in our longing for something tender, something that might bloom'' Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Little, Brown Book Group Sculling
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Importance of Being Earnest
Book SynopsisFrancesca Coppa is Professor of English,Muhlenberg College, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Bibliography The Importance of Being Earnest
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Orion Publishing Co Cerys Matthews Under Milk Wood
Book SynopsisWe are not wholly bad or goodWho live our lives under Milk WoodAnd Thou, I know, wilt be the firstTo see our best side, not our worst. In this enchanting illustrated adaptation, Cerys Matthews brings Dylan Thomas''s beloved classic to new life. This is a bedtime story like no other; a book to be treasured by many generations; a book for babies and old men alike, for all that are young at heart. Welcome to the small seaside town of Llareggub.Here you will find dreamers, workers, singers, sinners, the young, old, blue, bold and a mix of all inbetween.Here you will meet Captain Cat and Rosie Probert, Mr Organ Morgan and Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, NogoodBoyo, Mog and Myfanwy.Here you will watch a day in their lives play out - from a dark, moonless night to a morning that is busy as bees; from a sunny, slow lulling afternoon to a deep, drifting dusk.So, to begin at the beginningTrade ReviewI love this illustrated Under Milk Wood: it has captured so much of Thomas's original delight in language and in humanity -- Katherine Rundell, author of RooftoppersA fantastic book, and a great Christmas gift idea -- Jonathan PryceNow nobody is too young to enjoy my Grandfather's words. This illustrated version is outstanding -- Hannah Ellis, granddaughter of Dylan Thomas
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