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Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times

by neil-astley
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Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times

Anthology: invigorating poetry for life's real moments.

Imagine a companion that truly gets the highs and lows of human experience—a book that doesn’t shy away from the rough edges of reality but also celebrates the vibrant mundane. "Staying Alive" is this companion in verse, a collection that grounds you during turbulence and elevates the everyday into something worth savoring. It's a gateway to poetry for realists and dreamers alike, proving itself indispensable for anyone craving connection through words.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times

by neil-astley
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ISBN: 9781852245887
Authors: neil-astley
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Date of Publication: 2002-06-27
Format: Paperback
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Goodreads rating: 4.36
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Description

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. Staying Alive has reached a wider readership than any other anthology of contemporary poetry. It is a landmark in the history of literary publishing. A sequel, Being Alive (2004), and a companion anthology, Being Human (2011), complete this poetry "trilogy".
 

Anthology: invigorating poetry for life's real moments.

Imagine a companion that truly gets the highs and lows of human experience—a book that doesn’t shy away from the rough edges of reality but also celebrates the vibrant mundane. "Staying Alive" is this companion in verse, a collection that grounds you during turbulence and elevates the everyday into something worth savoring. It's a gateway to poetry for realists and dreamers alike, proving itself indispensable for anyone craving connection through words.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.