Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy
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Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy

About this book

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 trilogy 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 new pocketbook selection of 100 essential poems from the trilogy is a Staying Alive travel companion (also available as an e-book). As well as selecting favourite poems from the trilogy -readers' and writers' choices as well as his own favourites -editor Neil Astley provides background notes on the poets and poems. 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.'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.'Truly startling and powerful poems' -Mia Farrow.'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... But this new book feels even more alive -I think it has a heartbeat' -Meryl Streep.

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Information

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781780370422
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Description
  3. Title Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. Wild Geese
  7. from Shape of Time
  8. The Guest House
  9. ‘To be great, be whole…’
  10. Living
  11. Table
  12. Second-Hand Coat
  13. Could Have
  14. Dawn Revisited
  15. The door
  16. Otherwise
  17. Harlem [2]
  18. Archaic Torso of Apollo
  19. The Journey
  20. Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
  21. Temptation
  22. Begin
  23. As I Go
  24. Ithaka
  25. The Layers
  26. The Road Not Taken
  27. The Way It Is
  28. ‘I drew a line…’
  29. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  30. Migratory
  31. Alone
  32. Encounter
  33. At the Fishhouses
  34. Snow
  35. A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford
  36. Unwittingly
  37. The Girl
  38. Being the third song of Urias
  39. Starlight
  40. from Clearances
  41. Poem for a Daughter
  42. Love
  43. The Victory
  44. She Leaves Me
  45. A Little Tooth
  46. After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
  47. Great Things Have Happened
  48. This Hour
  49. Snow Melting
  50. Wild strawberries
  51. Strawberries
  52. For Desire
  53. You Don’t Know What Love Is
  54. Atlas
  55. Love Song: I and Thou
  56. Wedding
  57. An Arundel Tomb
  58. Love after Love
  59. Missing God
  60. Sheep Fair Day
  61. from Of Gravity and Light
  62. The Bright Field
  63. Stationery
  64. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  65. A Confession
  66. O Taste and See
  67. From Blossoms
  68. The Simple Truth
  69. Sweetness, Always
  70. Happiness
  71. Trio
  72. The Present
  73. ‘The washing never gets done…’
  74. A Man in His Life
  75. Entirely
  76. An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
  77. Kindness
  78. One Art
  79. Nothing Is Lost
  80. The Weighing
  81. Burlap Sack
  82. Silence
  83. A Brief for the Defense
  84. Musée des Beaux Arts
  85. The fly
  86. The Place Where We Are Right
  87. The Diameter of the Bomb
  88. September Song
  89. All of These People
  90. The Red and the Black
  91. Try to Praise the Mutilated World
  92. Sweetness
  93. Though There Are Torturers
  94. It’s This Way
  95. Hijab Scene #7
  96. They’ll say, ‘She must be from another country’
  97. Aubade
  98. Common and Particular
  99. Funeral Blues
  100. Memorial
  101. Darling
  102. Eden Rock
  103. Gravy
  104. Prayer
  105. from Four Quartets
  106. Postscript
  107. Late Fragment
  108. APPENDICES
  109. NOTES ON POETS AND POEMS
  110. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  111. INDEX OF WRITERS
  112. INDEX OF TITLES
  113. About the Author
  114. Copyright