Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal TimesNeil Astley Bloodaxe Books, 2002 - 496 pagina's Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity, helping us stay alive to the world and stay true to ourselves. Many people turn to poetry only at unreal times, whether for consolation in loss or affirmation in love, or when facing other extremes and anxieties. Staying Alive includes many of the great modern love poems and elegies, but it also shows the power of poetry in celebrating the ordinary miracle, taking you on a journey around many of the different aspects of everyday life explored in poems. A strong poem is not just for crisis. Such a poem is there for all times, helping us face or embrace daily change and disruption. It will also speak to us when nothing seems to be happening, when the poem's importance is in helping us stay alive to the world and stay true to ourselves. S taying Alive has reached a wider readership than any other anthology of contemporary poetry. It is a landmark in the history of literary publishing. The first in a series, Staying Alive was followed by a sequel, Being Alive (2004), a companion anthology, Being Human (2011), and by a fourth volume, Staying Human: new poems for Staying Alive (2020). These anthologies have been welcomed not only by poets but by a wide range of well-known people respected for their work in fields other than poetry - all avid readers of poetry. They want to recommend these books above all other anthologies of contemporary poetry. |
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... stops to listen . We stop too , with our arms around each other . The poem is being read and listened to out here in the open . Behind us no one is entering or leaving the houses . Suddenly a hug comes over me and I'm giving it to you ...
... stop them shaking , shading my eyes won't stop them seeing , being close to me day and night like a coat can do nothing against this heat , this cold . I can at least confirm there is a wall here that no invading force will ever destroy ...
... stop there . Soon it is an avenue which cambers arrogantly past the Mechanics ' Institute , turns left at the main road without even looking and quickly it is a town with all four major clearing banks , a daily paper and a football team ...
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Poets on poetry | 18 |
Vernon Scannell 35 Legs | 35 |
Michael Longley 43 A Prayer | 43 |
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