Being Alive - The sequel to Staying Alive

Author(s): Neil Astley (editor)

Poetry & Plays

Being Alive is about being human: about love and loss, fear and longing, hurt and wonder. Being Alive is the sequel to Neil AstleyâÂÂs Staying Alive,which became BritainâÂÂs most popular poetry book, because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world. Now he has assembled this equally lively companion anthology for all those readers whoâÂÂve wanted more poems that touch the heart, stir the mind and fire the spirit. Staying Alive didnâÂÂt just reach a broader readership, it introduced thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry, giving them an international gathering of poems of great personal force, poems with emotional power, intellectual edge and playful wit. It also brought many readers back to poetry, people who hadnâÂÂt read poetry for years because it hadnâÂÂt held their interest. Now Being Alive gives readers an even wider selection of vivid, brilliantly diverse contemporary poetry from around the world.

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"'I love Staying Alive and keep going back to it. Being Alive is just as vivid, strongly present and equally beautifully organised. But this new book feels even more alive - I think it has a heartbeat, or maybe that's my own thrum humming along with the music of these poets. Sitting alone in a room with these poems is to be assured that you are not alone, you are not crazy (or if you are, you're not the only one who thinks this way!) I run home to this book to argue with it, find solace in it, to locate myself in the world again' - Meryl Streep; 'These poems remind us of what we have felt yet never fully articulated, what we have dreamt yet never believed entirely possible. Perhaps most importantly, the poems in here tell us there is nothing more powerful than language when its agenda is to reveal rather than to conceal or distort' - Kamila Shamsie"

General Fields

  • : 9781852246754
  • : Bloodaxe Books
  • : Bloodaxe Books
  • : 0.7
  • : August 2013
  • : 220mm X 138mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Neil Astley (editor)
  • : Paperback
  • : repr4int
  • : 821.008
  • : very good
  • : 512
  • : DC