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Title: The Poetry of Alan Seeger

Author: Alan Seeger

Narrator: Danny Swopes, Christopher Ragland, Eric Meyers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Release date: November 11, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Alan Seeger was born on 22nd June 1888 in New York. When he was one the family moved to Staten Island and nine years later onwards to Mexico for two years. After attending several elite preparatory schools he enrolled at Harvard in 1906, where he also edited and wrote for the Harvard Monthly.He graduated in 1910 and went to live the life of a bohemian in New York's Greenwich Village, and thereafter moved to Paris to continue his poetry writing in the Latin quarter. War's looming dark shadow was to have a transformative effect on the young poet and on 24th August 24th 1914 he joined the French Foreign Legion so he could fight for the Allies.On American Independence day, 4th July 1917 whilst urging on his fellow soldiers in a successful charge at Belloy-en-Santerre he was hit several times by machine gun fire and died.His poetry was published posthumously later that year, it although not a great success his poem 'I Have a Rendezvous with Death . . .' is now regarded as a classic.On the sixth anniversary of his death a memorial to the American volunteers was unveiled in the Place des Etats-Unis. The memorial was created by Jean Boucher who had used a photograph of Seeger as his inspiration. Also inscribed upon it are Seeger's moving words: "They did not pursue worldly rewards; they wanted nothing more than to live without regret, brothers pledged to the honour implicit in living one's own life and dying one's own death. Hail, brothers! Goodbye to you, the exalted dead! To you, we owe two debts of gratitude forever: the glory of having died for France, and the homage due to you in our memories."1 - The Poetry of Alan Seeger - An Introduction2 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger3 - Resurgam by Alan Seeger4 - The Hosts by Alan Seeger5 - Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France by Alan Seeger6 - Maktoob by Alan Seeger7 - On a Theme in the Greek Anthology by Alan Seeger8 - Sonnet I by Alan Seeger9 - Sonnet 3 by Alan Seeger10 - Sonnet 5 by Alan Seeger11 - Sonnet 6 by Alan Seeger12 - Sonnet 8 by Alan Seeger13 - Sonnet 10 by Alan Seeger14 - Sonnet 11 by Alan Seeger15 - Sonnet 12 by Alan Seeger16 - Sonnet 14 by Alan Seeger17 - With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College by Alan Seeger18 - Juvenilia, An Ode to Natural Beauty by Alan Seeger19 - Tezcotzinco by Alan Seeger20 - On The Cliffs Newport by Alan Seeger21 - Do You Remember by Alan Seeger22 - All Thats Not Love by Alan Seeger23 - I Loved.... by Alan Seeger24 - Fragments by Alan Seeger25 - The Need To Love by Alan Seeger26 - Champagne 1914-1915 by Alan Seeger27 - Paris by Alan Seeger28 - Introduction and Conclusion of a Long Poem by Alan Seeger

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Title: The Poetry of Wallace Stevens

Author: Wallace Stevens

Narrator: Danny Swopes, Christopher Ragland, Liza Ross

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Release date: November 11, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Wallace James Stevens was born on October 2nd, 1879 in Reading, Pennsylvania.His father, a lawyer, sent Wallace to Harvard as a non-degree special student, after which he movedto New York City and worked briefly as a journalist.From there he attended New York Law School and graduated in 1903. On a trip home to Reading in1904 Stevens met Elsie Viola Kachel, a saleswoman, milliner, and stenographer.After working for several New York law firms he was hired in January 1908, as a lawyer for the American Bonding Company.After a 6 year courtship Wallace and Elsie married in 1909 over the objections of his parents. For Wallace it was a seismic event; he never spoke to his father again. By 1914 Wallace had become the vice-president of the New York office of the Equitable SuretyCompany of St. Louis, Missouri. In 1916, he joined Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company and they moved to Hartford. His work was full-time and time for his poetry writing was in short supply.From January 1922 made several business several visits to Key West, Florida. "The place is a paradise," he wrote to Elsie, "midsummer weather, the sky brilliantly clear and intensely blue, the sea blue and green beyond what you have ever seen."In 1923 'Harmonium' was published. At last, at age 38, he was an overnight success. His career wasnot prodigious in quantity but its quality was exceptional.In March 1955 Wallace underwent various medical tests and an operation which resulted in a diagnosis of stomach cancer.He travelled in early June to receive honorary Doctorates at Hartford and Yale.Wallace was readmitted on July 21st to St. Francis Hospital where his condition deteriorated. Wallace Stevens died on the 2nd August 1955 at the age of 75. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955. - 1 - The Poetry of Wallace Stevens - An Introduction2 - Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens3 - Six Significant Landscapes by Wallace Stevens4 - Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock by Wallace Stevens5 - Two Figures in Dense Violet Light by Wallace Stevens6 - In The Carolinas by Wallace Stevens7 - Last Looks at the Lilacs by Wallace Stevens8 - Gray Room by Wallace Stevens9 - Tea At the Palaz of Hoon by Wallace Stevens10 - Hymn From A Watermelon Pavilion by Wallace Stevens11 - Domination of Black by Wallace Stevens12 - Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks by Wallace Stevens13 - Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens14 - Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens15 - Phases by Wallace Stevens16 - Metaphors of a Magnifico by Wallace Stevens17 - Frogs Eat Butterflies, snakes Eat Frogs, Hogs Eat Snakes, Men Eat Hogs by Wallace Stevens18 - The Worm's At Heaven's Gate by Wallace Stevens19 - Tattoo by Wallace Stevens20 - Another Weeping Woman by Wallace Stevens21 - The High-toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens22 - To the One of Fictive Music by Wallace Stevens23 - Peter Quince at the Clavier by Wallace Stevens24 - The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens25 - The Wind Shifts by Wallace Stevens26 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens27 - Nomad Exquisite by Wallace Stevens28 - The Comedian as the Letter C by Wallace Stevens

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Title: The Poetry of Katherine Mansfield

Author: Katherine Mansfield

Narrator: Libby Brunton, Shyama Perera, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Release date: November 11, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Katherine was born on the 14th October 1888 into a prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand, the middle child of five.A gifted celloist, at one point she thought she might take it up professionally but writing gradually began to move to the forefront of her interests. Her first writings were published at an early age in school magazines.At 19 Katherine left for England where she met and befriended the modernist writers D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf amongst others. She then travelled to Europe before returning to New Zealand. There she began to write the short stories that she would later become so famous for. Her stories often focus on moments of disruption and frequently open rather abruptly. There was another less-heralded side to Katherine's writings; that of poetry. Her verse certainly reflects much of the themes of her life and interests. Many poems are beautiful, thoughtful, tender and observant works on the human condition. Some though seem out of kilter for so great a talent, almost child-like in form and content. But taken as yet another facet of her work they accomplish much in helping us to understand her.By 1908 she had returned to London and to a rather more bohemian lifestyle. Life was to be lived and enjoyed. A passionate affair resulted in her becoming pregnant and in her being married off to an older man. But she left him the same evening with the marriage unconsummated. She was then to miscarry and be cut out of her mother's will (allegedly because of her lesbianism).In 1911 she was to start a relationship with John Middleton Murry, a magazine editor, and although it was volatile he supported her work and she wrote some of her best stories.During the First World War Mansfield contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which rendered any return or visit to New Zealand impossible and led to her death at the tender age of 34 on 9th January 1923 in Fontainebleau, France.1 - The Poetry of Katherine Mansfield - An Introduction2 - A Fine Day by Katherine Mansfield3 - Very Early Spring by Katherine Mansfield4 - Out in the Garden by Katherine Mansfield5 - Spring Wind In London by Katherine Mansfield6 - Now I Am A Plant, A Weed by Katherine Mansfield7 - When I Was A Bird by Katherine Mansfield8 - The Wounded Bird by Katherine Mansfield9 - Across the Red Sky by Katherine Mansfield10 - Voices of the Air by Katherine Mansfield11 - Autumn Song by Katherine Mansfield12 - Winter Song by Katherine Mansfield13 - There is a Solemn Wind Tonight by Katherine Mansfield14 - The Storm by Katherine Mansfield15 - Night Scented Stock by Katherine Mansfield16 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child by Katherine Mansfield17 - The Town Between the Hills by Katherine Mansfield18 - The Candle by Katherine Mansfield19 - Little Girl's Prayer by Katherine Mansfield20 - A Little Boy's Dream by Katherine Mansfield21 - To LHB by Katherine Mansfield22 - A Day in Bed by Katherine Mansfield23 - A Few Rules For Beginners by Katherine Mansfield24 - Fairy Tale by Katherine Mansfield25 - Camomile Tea by Katherine Mansfield26 - The Earth Child in the Grass by Katherine Mansfield27 - There Was a Child Once by Katherine Mansfield28 - Sanary by Katherine Mansfield29 - The Sea Child by Katherine Mansfield30 - Sea Song by Katherine Mansfield31 - Sea by Katherine Mansfield32 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield33 - Waves by Katherine Mansfield34 - The Opal Dream Cave by Katherine Mansfield35 - In the Rangitaki Valley by Katherine Mansfield36 - Villa Pauline by Katherine Mansfield37 - Butterfly Laughter by Katherine Mansfield38 - The Gulf by Katherine Mansfield39 - Deaf House Agent by Katherine Mansfield40 - Opposites by Katherine Mansfield41 - Country Women by Katherine Mansfield42 - The Arabian Shawl by Katherine Mansfield43 - Covering Wings by Katherine Mansfield44 - Sorrowing Love by Katherine Mansfield45 - The Meeting by Katherine Mansfield46 - The Quarrel by Katherine Mansfield47 - A Joyful Song of Five by Katherine Mansfield48 - Sleeping Together by Katherine Mansfield49 - Loneliness by Katherine Mansfield50 - A New Hymn by Katherine Mansfield51 - Stars by Katharine Mansfield52 - To God the Father by Katherine Mansfield

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Title: Poems for Men

Author: William Ernest Henley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rudyard Kipling

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Release date: November 11, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Do men need poems?Is the gender of brawn and 'can-do' really a candidate for honeyed verse?Obviously yes. Through the centuries men seem to dominate the writing of poetry. From books of epics to quatrains of love poetry it seemed to be a man's world. His domain.But take away the stirring deeds of adventure and much of what remains was written in the admiration or pursuit of women.A volume purely for men, to show other facets of their personalities and characters seems to be an obvious choice. One verse fits all is, in fact, far removed from the truth.Men needs words. They need support, understanding as well as goals, ambition and structure. They need purpose, desire; the need to love and be loved.1 - Poems for Men - An Introduction 2 - If by Rudyard Kipling3 - Invictus by William Ernest Henley4 - A Man's A Man For A' That by Robert Burns5 - A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow6 - For the Man Who Fails by Paul Laurence Dunbar7 - The Life of Man by Sir Francis Bacon8 - Is There Any Wise Man by Kabir9 - I Saw a Man Pursuing The Horizon by Stephen Crane10 - Till Man Destroy's Self by Rumi11 - A Man Saw a Ball of Gold in the Sky by Stephen Crane12 - An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope13 - A Man Went Before A Strange God by Stephen Crane14 - Wondrous Sight For Men by Ann Griffiths15 - The Man to the Angel by George William Russell16 - The Blind Ploughman by Radclyffe Hall17 - A Man Toiled on a Burning Road by Stephen Crane18 - Ay, Workman, Make Me a Dream by Stephen Crane19 - To a Gentleman by Robert Burns20 - St Patrick Was a Gentleman by Henry Bennett21 - A Song - Men of England by Percy Bysshe Shelley22 - The True Born Englishman (An Excerpt) by Daniel Defoe23 - England to Free Men by John Galsworthy24 - I Travell'd Among Unknown Men by William Wordsworth25 - Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare26 - Song. That Women Are But Men's Shadows by Ben Jonson27 - My Last Duchess by Robert Browning28 - Women's Tongue by Robert Tannahill29 - You Men by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz30 - Rose of All the World by D H Lawrence31 - Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare32 - Men Are Heavens Piers by Robert Louis Stevenson33 - She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron34 - Destroyer of Ships, Men, Cities by James Elroy Flecker35 - The Romance of the Knight by Thomas Chatterton36 - The Merman by Alfred Lord Tennyson37 - Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling38 - The Flying Dutchman by Edwin Arlington Robinson39 - The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes40 - John Marr and Other Sailors by Herman Melville41 - The Old Man of the Sea by Oliver Wendell Holmes42 - Sailing To Byzantium by W B Yeats43 - Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats44 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley45 - The Youth of Man by Matthew Arnold46 - A Man Young and Old - Summer and Spring by William Butler Yeats47 - The Man Who Will Not Know Another by Patrick Branwell Bronte48 - Of Any Old Man by Isaac Rosenberg49 - Old Man by Edward Thomas50 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats51 - Wishes of an Elderly Man Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914 by Walter Alexander Raleigh52 - The Parable of the Old Man & the Young by Wilfred Owen53 - Men Who March Away by Thomas Hardy54 - For the Men at the Front by John Oxenham55 - Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg56 - Marching Men by Marjorie Pickthall57 - I Tracked a Dead Man Down a Trench by Walter S S Lyon58 - The Three Lads by Elizabeth Chandler Forman59 - A Ballad of the Ranks by Arthur Conan Doyle60 - Men of Verdun by Lawrence Binyon61 - Soldier by Rupert Brooke62 - Soldier From the Wars Returning by A E Housman63 - I Saw a Man This Morning by Patrick Shaw Stewart64 - Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson65 - The Charge of The Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson66 - Song of Marion's Men by William Cullen Bryant67 - Dupont''s Round Fight (November 1861) by Herman Melville68 - Dance of the Hanged Men by Arthur Rimbaud69 - The Hunters of Men by John Greenleaf Whittier70 - The Madman's Song by John Webster71 - Mothers of Men by Edwin J Ellis72 - Portrait of My Father As a Young Man by Rainer Maria Rilke73 - The Father by Katharine Tynan74 - Come Up from the Fields Father by Walt Whitman75 - A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning by John Donne76 - The Sick Man and the Nightingale by Amy Levy77 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke78 - Oh Captain, My Captain by Walt Whitman79 - The Dead Man Walking by Thomas Hardy80 - The Dying Man and the Vulture by Khalil Gibran81 - Death Be Not Proud by John Donne

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Title: Christmas Poetry

Author: Christinas Rossetti, Robert Herrick, Rudyard Kipling

Narrator: Tim Graham, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Release date: November 11, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Christmas, they say, comes but once a year. In these days it seems to also last for much of that year.For the religious amongst us this annual celebration of the Birth of Christ must seem bitter sweet; it's acknowledgment by billions of people countered by the pervasive spread of material possessions translating the event to little more than a sales pitch for their own wares. Most religions celebrate their founders but Christianity seems somehow to have lost possession of one of its key rituals in an ever more secular West. The spread of globalisation seems to have hindered rather than helped the true meaning of the festival. Children today are much more interested in what presents they might receive than any spiritual message. As parents too, most of us buy into this and we seem to indulge our offspring rather than the themes and aims of the festival's meaning common to us all. In this collection we rely on the words and wisdom of such fine poets as John Milton, Emily Dickinson, Sir Walter Scott, Daniel Sheehan, Wordsworth, Longfellow and a whole host of others to absorb us in a Christmas time of hope and togetherness set amongst a landscape of winter wonderment and Nature's palest palette. The experiences and memories they share with us speak of a time, of a world that did have a common purpose and an ambition to share good fortune with everyone. - 1 - Christmas Poetry - An Introroduction2 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton3 - Nativity by John Donne4 - Carol by Ben Jonson5 - A Christmas Carol by Samual Taylor Coleridge6 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan7 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick8 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell9 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere10 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart11 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow12 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton13 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi14 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling15 - No Mercy Here by Daniel Sheehan16 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling17 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan18 - The Oxen by Thomas Hardy19 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore20 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott21 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti22 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson23 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens24 - The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell25 - The White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire26 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow27 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred lord Tennyson28 - Minstrels. A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth29 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson30 - Christmas At Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson31 - The House of Christmas by G K Chesterton32 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell33 - Winter Sunset by Katharine Tynan34 - Joseph by G K Chesterton35 - Winter Evening Hymn To My Fire by James Russell Lowell36 - In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti37 - The Farm Woman's Winter by Thomas Hardy38 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson39 - Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson40 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale41 - Winter Heavens by George Meredith42 - The Mahogany Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray43 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox44 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson45 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan46 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick47 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan48 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy49 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats50 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy51 - A New Years Eve in Wartime by Thomas Hardy52 - Ghosts of the Old Year by James Weldon Johnson53 - 'Twas Just This Time Last Year I Died by Emily Dickinson54 - The Meeting by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow55 - The Old Year by John Clare56 - The Death of the Old Year by Alfred Lord Tennyson57 - At the Entering of the New Year by Thomas Hardy58 - Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns

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Title: [Russian] - Мой Пушкин

Author: марина цветаева

Narrator: ирина ерисанова

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Release date: November 9, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

В книгу известной русской поэтессы, поэта предельной правды чувства Марины Цветаевой (1892-1941) вошли художественные очерки историко-литературного плана Мой Пушкин и Пушкин и Пугачев. Стихотворения разделены на циклы: Стихи о Москве, Ахматовой, Стихи к Б

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Title: The Animal Rodent Insect Show

Author: Richie Cotton

Narrator: Richie Cotton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 7 minutes

Release date: October 27, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

A colourful rhyming tale of unique Australian animals gathering together for rowdy good time.

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Title: An Hour of Nature Poems - Volume 1

Author: Radclyffe Hall, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth

Narrator: Richard Mitchley, William Dufris, Alex Jennings

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Silence is rare in Nature.When we really listen, Nature is conducting symphonies of sound as her world goes about the day and night. Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere, for everyone.Our eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways, the soft drizzle of rain from soft grey clouds, the bleached harsh desert sand of a noon day, a wave caressing the shore, to the ravenous colours of a departing sunset. Indeed, whenever we look and listen to the vastness of our world Nature's beauty is always there for us. She placates our anger, soothes our pain. Her vistas feed our hearts and souls; the world of a single flower brings a smile.In these 60 minutes nature takes us through her world of wonder.

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Title: An Hour of Nature Poems - Volume 2

Author: Charlotte Smith, John Clare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Narrator: Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf, Nigel Planer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 59 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Silence is rare in Nature.When we really listen, Nature is conducting symphonies of sound as her world goes about the day and night. Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere, for everyone.Our eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways, the soft drizzle of rain from soft grey clouds, the bleached harsh desert sand of a noon day, a wave caressing the shore, to the ravenous colours of a departing sunset. Indeed, whenever we look and listen to the vastness of our world Nature's beauty is always there for us. She placates our anger, soothes our pain. Her vistas feed our hearts and souls; the world of a single flower brings a smile.In these 60 minutes nature takes us through her world of wonder.

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Title: The Rhymer's Club

Author: W B Yeats, John Davidson, Richard Le Gallienne

Narrator: Mark Rice-Oxley, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

In 1890 W B Yeats and Ernest Rhys founded a poetry club. Based mainly at Fleet Street's immortal 'Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese' pub with occasional appearances at the Domino room in the Café Royal poets gathered together to dine and drink.Whilst it was based on a core of poets many others attended on an ad hoc basis including Oscar Wilde, Francis Thompson & Lord Alfred Douglas. The camaraderie, banter and poetry that played out in their dreams, ambitions and for many, their difficult lives led Yeats to call them 'the tragic generation'.As well as their enthusiastic social forays they printed two anthologies of verse. The first in 1892 and the second in 1894. For all the talent it could call upon the print runs were only in their hundreds.Part of a poet's obligation is to move the boundaries of society, to write what others shun. And whilst that is certainly the case with our group in terms of writing in one glaring respect they were very Victorian. The members of the club were only men. Arthur Ransome sums up their existence as "... the Rhymer's Club used to meet, to drink from tankards, smoke clay pipes, and recite their own poetry".Whilst their initial aims were food, drink, camaraderie and bragging, the reality is that their poetry gives us so much more.