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 series 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 ...
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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 series 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 pocketbook selection of 100 essential poems from the first three anthologies is a Staying Alive travel companion (also available as an e-book). As well as selecting favourite poems from what was originally a trilogy - readers' and writers' choices as well as his own favourites - editor Neil Astley provides background notes on the poets and poems. A fourth volume in the series, Staying Human: new poems for Staying Alive, was published in 2020. 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.
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New. 2012. Paperback. Pocketbook selection of essential poems from the three anthologies: a Staying Alive travel companion also available as an e-book. Editor(s): Astley, Neil. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 119 x 10. Weight in Grams: 216. 160 pages. Editor(s): Astley, Neil. Pocketbook selection of essential poems from the three anthologies: a Staying Alive travel companion also available as an e-book. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 191 x 119 x 10. Weight: 216......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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