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Please note, this audio edition alternates between sections written and performed in the Orkney dialect, and their English translations. Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet...

Read by the author, Harry Josephine Giles. Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is a challenging and subversive collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology. Witty, candid, furious, and always compelling, Them! negotiates the fraught and...

Mona Harry ist eine der bekanntesten deutschen Slammerin. Hamburg ist ein Knotenpunkt der Szene, die für frische Poesie, Vitalität und Wortgewandtheit steht. Aus Mona Harry fließen die Worte nur so heraus. Sprudelnd schreibt sie über das Leben und das Lieben, das Staunen und das Lachen. Und jetzt auch über ihre Heimatstadt Hamburg.

NORDEN ist eine Hymne auf Mona Harry Lieblingsregion, ihr Heimatbundesland Schleswig-Holstein. Auf das ach so flache Land zwischen Nordsee und Ostsee, "vor dem sich sogar die Bäume verneigen". Die weiteren Texte sind wunderbar wortgewandte, verspielte, sinnsuchende und sinnfindende, sprudelnde Texte über das Leben und das Lieben, das Staunen und das Lachen.

Whale Nation is a hymn to the beauty, intelligence, and majesty of the largest mammal on earth. A "green classic" read with natural resonance by its author, it rarely fails to strike a chord in the hearts of those concerned with the abuse of our planet.

This poem explores the life of elephants in their natural habitat and in captivity, and details their relentless destruction at the hands of man. Evocatively read by the author.

Evangeline describes the betrothal of an Acadian girl named Evangeline Bellefontaine to her beloved, Gabriel Lajeunesse, and their separation as the British deport the Acadians from Acadie in the Great Upheaval. The poem then follows Evangeline across the landscapes of America as she spends years in a search for him. Finally she settles in Philadelphia and, as an old woman, works as a nun among the poor. While tending the dying during an epidemic she finds Gabriel among the sick, and he dies in her arms.

A collection of classic Hiawatha tales from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, read by Harry Fleetwood.