Dear (Next) Prime Minister: Open Letters to Margaret Thatcher and Neil Kinnock

Politics & Social Sciences

NEIL ASTLEY

Politics & Government

Bloodaxe Books

Assembling a diverse mix of contemporary poets-Mary Oliver, W.H. Auden, Maya Angelou, Billy Collins, Louise Gluck, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Rita Dove, and hundreds more-Staying Alive is a unique anthology that illuminates the vital force of our humanity, the passion of our aspirations, the power of our spirituality. From the enigma of death to the sweetness of friendship, these poems speak to life's mysteries and consolations and help us navigate the most trying times in recent memory. Staying Alive is already an astonishing best-seller in the United Kingdom, where it has gained a wide-ranging audience. This new edition, specially revised for its American readership, reconnects acionados and newcomers alike to the force of poetry, helping us stay alive to the world and stay true to ourselves.

Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Passionfood: 100 love poems

Passionfood: 100 Love Poems

An anthology with substantial selections from the whole range of each writer's poetry, as well as intriguing background material.

Bloodaxe Poetry Introductions 2

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

"Bloodaxe Poetry Introductions" are a new kind of anthology aimed at the general reader as well as the poetry lover. Compiled by Staying Alive editor Neil Astley, each book in the series covers four leading contemporary poets in depth, with substantial selections covering the whole range of each writer's poetry, as well as intriguing and illuminating background material, including profiles, interviews, essays and commentary by the poets. This introduction brings together four of America's major modern poets whose visionary poetry is rooted in the everyday world as well as in nature. Wise, passionate and incisive, their poems address heart, spirit and mind to illuminate the human condition. Jack Gilbert has always been a total outsider in American poetry. He writes compellingly about passion, loss and loneliness. His work is both a rebellious assertion of clarity and a profound affirmation of the world. Jane Hirshfield is a visionary writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. Galway Kinnell's diverse work ranges from odes of kinship with nature to realistic evocations of urban life, from religious quest to political statement, from brief imagistic lyrics to extended, complex meditations. W.S. Merwin is arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century, known especially for continually renewing his poetry, for his intimate feeling for nature and language, and for several classic translations.

Bloodaxe Poetry Introductions 3 (Bloodaxe Poetry Introductions S.)

Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy

This is a pocketbook selection of 100 essential poems from the 'Staying Alive' tavel companion. The 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; and much more.

Ten Poems about Sheep

Candlestick Press

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