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Title: Fifty Shades of August

Author: Laurence Binyon, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Wordsworth

Narrator: Shyama Perera, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Release date: January 5, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The eighth month of the Gregorian calendar brings summer to a close, at least on our calendars. Nature will continue with her wise and infinite ways regardless of our need to keep a count of where we expect her to be. Summer with its heat, its holidays has a lung-bursting capacity to energise our thoughts, our ambitions and our contentment.Our classic poets, including Phyllis Wheatley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emily Jane Bronte, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sara Teasdale and a wealth of others, mirror these thoughts and desires in ways that express what the human condition really is; a landscape of feelings and emotions, of friendship and family, of love and an ever-changing world that we call our own.

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Title: Fifty Shades of Fathers

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson, William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling

Narrator: Tim Graham, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Release date: January 5, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Our own lives are possible because of fathers. It may be as limited as a procreational act and we never see them again. But more hopefully these are kind, caring and protective relationships that are central to our lives helping us to explore and achieve the people we want to be. From the childhood dependency of early years to sometimes troublesome teens to independence thereafter they help guide, advise, cajole and share their lives with those they most love.Our classic poets who range in stature from William Blake to William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anne Bradstreet fill their verse with their own unique take on just what a father is. What he should be and what he can be. These poems give us both an insight into the role of the father in previous generations and the mirror of how some things do not change.Beyond the nurture and the genetics one fact remains a constant, these relationships go both ways; we need them and they need us. But for many that can remain unsaid. Those words can mean much and should be often thought and sometimes said.

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Title: Fifty Shades of London

Author: Robert Herrick, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Samuel Johnson

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Release date: January 5, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

This vast and teeming metropolis that many of us call home sits astride a small river on a small island anchored off the north-west shores of Europe. Yet its very name 'London' is famed, admired and known worldwide. Its growth from hamlet, town, fortification, city and centre of Empire is one of rich reward. Within its ever-changing borders that are forever moving outwards are gems of architecture across cultures, times and influences that exist in very few other places. Its diaspora of peoples and cultures overlap, thrive, compete and influence this leviathan of a world city. Within this volume poets, including the likes and stature of Samuel Johnson and William Blake to Thomas Hardy and Katherine Mansfield, with mere words conjure up the City and its life; its hopes, its troubles, its follies and it's people.

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Title: Fifty Shades of June

Author: Emily Dickenson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Release date: January 5, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar heralds a new season - Summer. Lengthening days, Sunshine days, Glorious days!In this month our classic poets flex their lexicons with verse that describes all manner of events. The weather may be warm or windy, showers, squalls and storms may momentarily darken skies with grey foreboding but Nature will soon be at work again on a palette of such bright and dazzling hues that the landscape is reborn again.From the pens of our remarkable poets including Robert Burns, Amy Lowell, Hafiz, Emily Dickinson, John Clare and a wealth of others comes sumptuous verse from the streets to the countryside, poems that describe our moods, feelings, travels and desires and many another thing.

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Title: Fifty Shades of July

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Whitman, John Keats

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Release date: January 5, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar saunters into mid-summer. Temperatures rise still further. The landscape may wilt under oppressive heat but is still a spectacle of colour and structure that only Mother Nature has the resources for.The pens of our remarkable poets including Walt Whitman, John Keats, Anne Bradstreet, W B Yeats, Amy Levy and a wealth of others move words in sometimes dizzying ways to create testament to the human condition; its people, their work and worries, their dreams and their hopes on this most joyous of months.

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Title: Fifty Shades of the British Landscape

Author: Radclyffe Hall, A. E. Housman, William Wordsworth

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Release date: January 5, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Over many centuries poets have drawn inspiration and solace from the land that surrounds us. From mountain high to valley floor from sea cliffs to sandy shore through wood and field, across rivers, brooks and streams through sunlight, raging storms and the cloak of night these shores have some of the most beautiful natural treasures to be found anywhere.Our poets including William Wordsworth, Robert Bridges and A E Houseman to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Radclyffe Hall and Emily Bronte with mere words help convey the splendour of this British Landscape in fifty classic poems.

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Title: Fifty Shades of Nature

Author: John Clare, Walt Whitman, Katherine Mansfield

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley, Nigel Planer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Release date: January 5, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Our senses revel in the incomparable majesty of the work of Mother Nature. The structure of the landscape, the multi-coloured mantle of trees and fauna, the myriad animals that wander and inhabit this glorious Earth. Nature conducts symphonies of sound as her world goes from day into the inky embrace of night.Our ears and eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways; the soft drizzle of rain from soft grey clouds, a wave caressing the shore and the ravenous colours of a departing sunset. Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere and for everyone. Indeed, whenever we look and listen to the vastness of Nature's beauty she can placate our anger and soothe our pain, despite our knowledge of her destructive forces that create myriad tragedies. Still her vistas can energise us, feed our hearts and souls and prompt us to muse on the mysteries of life and death.Our sense of wonder is sometimes hard to describe, our feelings can overwhelm us or even leave us mute in astonishment. However, help is at hand. Our classic poets including the likes of Wordsworth, Whitman, Clare, and Dickinson use words in wondrous way to open our eyes and ears to the bounty and the plenty of Nature in fifty timeless classic.

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Title: The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Release date: January 5, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The Bard, William Shakespeare, is the supreme talent of playwriting and perhaps also of those 14 lines of verse we call the Sonnet.The Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle was a popular form for poets in the 16th Century with masterful works by many including Sir Phillip Sidney Edmund Spenser and Michael Drayton. Many others wrote sonnets interspersed amongst their other works such as John Donne and even Queen Elizabeth herself.But ranking above all others is William Shakespeare. Some of his sonnets are known in part or whole by all of us such as Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds. Sonnet 97 'How long has my absence been' and Sonnet 18 'Shall I compare thee to a Summers day'. Many of the others are as equal in insight, magnificence, tender expressions, sweeping statements and sheer brilliance.Whilst in total they number 154 there is little other poetry of Shakespeare's to compare them to unless of course the majesty of his plays is also thought of as poetry.It matters not. Instead let us feast on these sumptuous readings as we journey together through one of the greatest experiences the English language and its son William Shakespeare have ever created.

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Title: The Ballad

Author: Edna St Vincent Millay, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lefkow, Sean Barrett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The ballad is one of the oldest poetic forms in English and are simply poems or songs that tell a story. Traditionally they are composed in quatrains, with common meter that follow an a b c b rhyming structure and this, together with the simple language (often the dialect of the region), made them easier to memorise and recite by wandering minstrels as they were passed down orally. Originally derived from the Medieval French the name suggests that they were to dance to and whilst widely used around Europe and other parts of the world, became characteristic of British poetry from the Middle Ages to the 19th century when it settled into our current usage of the term as a slow sentimental song.By the 17th century the printed version of ballads, often with music and illustration, known as Broadsides or Broadsheets, circulated, probably in their millions throughout Britain and remained popular until the Victorian era when they lost prestige.Whether they be folk, literary or lyrical, most ballads contain a self-contained, concise, plot driven story told in the third person narrative, often featuring dialogue and moving at a pace with an emotional urgency to arrive at a dramatic conclusion. The subject of ballads are limitless and they can be tragic, historical or comic.Maybe it's because of childhood associations or that we all enjoy a cracking good story told in rhyme but as this volume demonstrates, the ballad has endless appeal. We include favourites such as Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Edna St Vincent Millay's The Ballad of the Harp Weaver, Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee as well as classics such as Sir Patrick Spens, the Ballad of Reading Gaol by Wilde and La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Keats. There's many more known and lesser known in this volume celebrating this most popular and accessible poetic form.

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Title: The Poetry of Wanderlust - The world is your oyster

Author: Sarojini Naidu, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Wordsworth

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2021

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

What's in a word? Apart from its value as a unit of information is there something more? Of course. Many words sound and express themselves, when rolled around the soul and mouth, as something both desirable, tangible and complete. We submit that 'Wanderlust' has just such a feeling.Most of us have an urge to journey, to take the body and mind on a journey that will sate our curiosity, build our experiences and memories and prepare ourselves for yet another.Whether as a child journeying wide-eyed through a field, a teenager exploring hitherto forbidden zones or as adults embarking on journeys that may change our lives and relationships with new cultures, foods and sounds - it seems as if we just can't get no satisfaction till the next far-off place.In this volume of classic poetry our wordsmiths are our companions on journeys near and far. They describe and create worlds that we can explore with them, word by word and line by line.In the company of Keats, Wordsworth, Bronte, Whitman, Kipling and a wealth of others these journeys in verse will be like no other.1 - The Poetry of Wanderlust - An Introduction 2 - Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman3 - The Vagabond by Robert Louis Stevenson4 - Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson5 - El Dorado by Edgar Allan Poe6 - The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson7 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear8 - Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson9 - Going Down Hill on a Bicycle, a Boy's Song by Henry Charles Beeching10 - By My Two Feet and Endless Times by Daniel Sheehan11 - Sonnet on Approaching Italy by Oscar Wilde12 - Constantinople by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu13 - In the Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu14 - To the City of Bombay by Rudyard Kipling15 - Stanzas From the Grande Chartreuse by Matthew Arnold16 - England and Switzerland by William Wordsworth17 - In Amsterdam by Eugene Field18 - Dear Old London by Eugene Field19 - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth20 - A London Thoroughfare. 2am by Amy Lowell21 - In Excelsis by Arthur Cecil Hillier22 - Ballade of an Omnibus by Amy Levy23 - A Ballad of London by Richard Le Gallienne24 - The Night Journey by Rupert Brooke25 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas26 - From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson27 - Rhyme of The Rail by John Godfrey Saxe28 - In the Train by James Thomson29 - To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman30 - The Ancient Arteries of America by Daniel Sheehan31 - Monadnock by John Gould Fletcher32 - To the Nile by Keats33 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley34 - Cities and Thrones and Powers by Rudyard Kipling35 - Tezcotinco by Alan Seeger36 - In the Belly of This Metal Beast by Daniel Sheehan37 - The Royal Tombs of Golconda by Sarojini Naidu38 - Penmaenmawr by Patrick Branwell Bronte39 - Sonnet to Lake Leman by Byron40 - Lines Written in the Highlands After a Visit to Burn's Country by John Keats41 - The Isles of Greece by Byron42 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus43 - Away to Canada by Joshua McCarter Simpson44 - Good-bye. Off For Kansas by John Willis Menard45 - Ballade of Running Away with Life by Richard Le Gallienne46 - To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent by Keats47 - The Lake Isle of Inisfree by William Butler Yeats48 - Deep in the Quiet Wood by James Weldon Johnson49 - A Song of the Road by Robert Louis Stevenson50 - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth51 - I Travell'd Among Unknown Men by William Wordsworth52 - Home Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning53 - Homesickness by Else Lasker Schuler54 - A Friendly Welcome by Lord Byron55 - In a Cafe by Francis Ledwidge56 - Admonition to a Traveller by William Wordsworth57 - Departure by Edna St Vincent Millay58 - Sonnet at Dover Cliffs July 20th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles59 - Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold60 - On the Sea by Keats61 - On the Cliffs, Newport by Alan Seeger62 - Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba by James Joyce63 - The Canoe Speaks by Robert Louis Stevenson64 - Cruisers by Rudyard Kipling65 - The Northern Blackwater by Rose Kavanagh66 - Sailing Beyond Seas by Jean Ingelow67 - Ships That Pass in the Night by Paul Laurence Dunbar68 - The Winds of Fate by Ella Wheeler Wilcox69 - Anchored by Paul Laurence Dunbar70 - Sailing to Byzantium by W B Yeats71 - Sonnet 7 - Lo! In the Orient When the Gracious Light by William Shakespeare72 - The Golden Journey to Samarkand by James Elroy Flecker73 - And Your Feet Are The Author, Your Eyes Every Page by Daniel Sheehan74 - The Wayfarer by Patrick Pearse75 - I Go on Dreaming of Paths by Antonio Machado76 - In This Journey by Daniel Sheehan77 - The Journey by Tagore78 - A Shropshire Lad XXXVI - White in the Moon the Long Road Lies by A E Housman79 - Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar80 - Freedom by George William Russell