Essential poems from the Staying Alive trilogy

Neil Astley

ISBN 10: 1852249420 / ISBN 13: 9781852249427

Published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Essential poems from the Staying Alive ...

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

"Staying Alive", "Being Alive" and "Being Human" have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry, and have helped poetry lovers to discover the little known riches of world poetry. Each anthology in the "Staying Alive" trilogy has 500 poems to touch the heart, stir the mind and fire the spirit. These books have been enormously popular with readers, especially as gift books and bedside companions. The poems by writers from many parts of the world have emotional power, intellectual edge and playful wit. This new pocketbook selection of 100 essential poems from the trilogy is a "Staying Alive" travel companion (also available as an e-book). As well as selecting favourite poems from the trilogy readers and writers choices as well as his own favourites editor Neil Astley provides background notes on the poets and poems. This format makes it even more suitable as a gift book for all those people you re sure would love modern poetry if only they were familiar with these kinds of poems. These essential poems are all about being human, being alive and staying alive: about love and loss; fear and longing; hurt and wonder; war and death; grief and suffering; birth, growing up and family; time, ageing and mortality; memory, self and identity; faith, hope and belief; acceptance of inadequacy and making do...all of human life in a hundred highly individual, universal poems.

Review:

These poems distil the human heart as nothing else... Staying Alive celebrates the point of poetry. It's invigorating and makes me proud of being human. --Jane Campion.

Truly startling and powerful poems. --Mia Farrow.

I love "Staying Alive" and keep going back to it. "Being Alive" is just as vivid - this new book feels even more alive - I think it has a heartbeat. --Meryl Streep.

Truly startling and powerful poems. --Mia Farrow.

I love "Staying Alive" and keep going back to it. "Being Alive" is just as vivid - this new book feels even more alive - I think it has a heartbeat. --Meryl Streep.