Staying Human
eBook - ePub

Staying Human

new poems for Staying Alive

  1. 528 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Staying Human

new poems for Staying Alive

About this book

Staying Human is the sequel to the Staying Alive trilogy of anthologies which have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. This fourth Bloodaxe world poetry anthology offers poetry lovers an even broader, international selection of 500 more 'real poems for unreal times', with a strong focus on 21st-century poems addressing current issues. The range of poetry here complements that of the first three anthologies: hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world; poems that touch the heart, stir the mind and fire the spirit; poems about what makes us human, about love and loss, fear and longing, hurt and wonder; talismanic poems which have become personal survival testaments for many. There's a strong focus on the human side of living in the 21st century in poems from the past two decades relating to migration, oppression, alienation and the individual's struggle to hold on, stay connected and find meaning in an increasingly polarised world. Staying Human also draws on poems suggested by readers because they've been so important in their own lives, as well as many poems which have gone viral after being shared on social media because they speak to our times with such great immediacy. And there are poems from around the world written just recently in response to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

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Information

Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781780373904
eBook ISBN
9781780373911
Subtopic
Poetry

Table of contents

  1. Description
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Neil Astley: Introduction
  5. 1: Staying human
  6. 2: Ten zillion things
  7. 3: Innocence and experience
  8. 4: After Frank O’Hara
  9. 5: Harmony and discord
  10. 6: Mortal hurt
  11. 7: Interesting times
  12. 8: Roots and routes
  13. 9: Empathy and conflict
  14. 10: The future?
  15. Acknowledgements
  16. Index of writers
  17. Index of titles and first lines
  18. Copyright