Staying Human
new poems for Staying Alive
$48.52
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2021
Summary
Staying Human is the latest addition to Bloodaxe’s bestselling Staying Alive series of world poetry anthologies.
The first title in the series, Staying Alive (2002) has sold 253K copies worldwide, including 50K copies of an American edition (2003) licensed to Miramax, launched in New York by Meryl Streep and others at a gala event at the Cooper Union in New York, which became a set text at many US colleges.
The second and third titles in the series w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780373904 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780373902 |
| Author: | Neil Astley |
| Publisher: | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 740g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 138mm x 216mm |
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Critics 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
Staying Alive is a book which leaves those who have read or heard a poem from it feeling less alone and more alive. – John Berger
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
Neil Astley
Neil Astley is the editor and founder of Bloodaxe Books. He has published over 20 other anthologies, most notably the Staying Alive trilogy and three collaborations with Pamela Robertson-Pearce, Soul Food (2007) and the DVD-anthologies In Person: 30 Poets (2008) and In Person: World Poets (2017), as well as two novels, The End of My Tether (Scribner), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2002, and The Sheep Who Changed the World (Flambard, 2005). He has lived in the North East since 1975, latterly in Northumberland’s Tarset valley.
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