Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human & the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal inhuman & hollow. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity helping us stay alive to the world & stay true to ourselves. Many people turn to poetry only at unreal times whether for consolation in loss or affirmation in love or when facing other extremes & anxieties. Staying Alive
Includes:: many of the great modern love poems & elegies but it also shows the power of poetry in celebrating the ordinary miracle taking you on a journey around many of the different aspects of everyday life explored in poems. A strong poem is not just for crisis. Such a poem is there for all times helping us face or embrace daily change & disruption. It will also speak to us when nothing seems to be happening when the poems importance is in helping us stay alive to the world & stay true to ourselves. Staying Alive has reached a wider readership than any other anthology of contemporary poetry. It is a landmark in the history of literary publishing. A sequel Being Alive (2004) & a companion anthology Being Human (2011) complete this poetry trilogy"."