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Staying Alive
real poems for unreal times
Häftad, 2002
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191 kr
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Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity, helping us stay alive to …
Being Alive
the sequel to Staying Alive
Häftad, 2004
179 kr
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Being Alive is the sequel to Neil Astley’s Staying Alive, which became Britain’s most popular poetry book because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world. Now he has assembled this equally lively companion anthology for all those readers who’ve …
Passionfood: 100 Love Poems
Inbunden, 2014
143 kr
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Passionfood is a feast of classic and contemporary love poems. There are a hundred flavours in this four-course celebration of love, passion and desire. Compiled by Staying Alive editor Neil Astley, its menu is distinctively different from that of other anthologies of love poetry. There are no …
Being Human
the companion anthology to Staying Alive and Being Alive
Av Neil Astley
E-bok, 2016
187 kr
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Being Human is the third book in the Staying Alive poetry trilogy. Staying Alive and its sequel Being Alive introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. Being Human is a companion volume to those two books – a world poetry anthology offering poetry lovers an even broader, …
Staying Human
new poems for Staying Alive
Häftad, 2020
179 kr
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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’, …
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy
Häftad, 2012
166 kr
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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 series has 500 poems to touch the heart, stir the mind and fire the …
Do Not Go Gentle
poems for funerals
Av Neil Astley
E-bok, 2014
130 kr
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This wide-ranging selection combines popular choices of traditional poems read at funerals with powerful poems by contemporary writers more tuned to our present age of doubt and disbelief. There are poems here for churchgoers and believers, including classic verses of grief and consolation by John …
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy
Av Neil Astley
E-bok, 2012
199 kr
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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 …
Hundred Years' War
modern war poems
Av Neil Astley
Häftad, 2014
191 kr
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War never stops. There have been two world wars since 1914 lasting for ten years, but wars have continued for a hundred years since then in many parts of the world: wars between nations, tribes and factions, wars over religion and beliefs, wars fought for land or oil or history, civil wars, …
Hundred Years' War
modern war poems
Av Neil Astley
E-bok, 2014
205 kr
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War never ends. There have been two world wars since 1914 lasting for ten years, but wars have continued for a hundred years since then in many parts of the world: wars between nations, tribes and factions, wars over religion and beliefs, wars fought for land or oil or history or power, civil wars, …
Staying Alive
real poems for unreal times
Av Neil Astley
E-bok, 2016
187 kr
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Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity, helping us stay alive to the …
Being Alive
the sequel to Staying Alive
Av Neil Astley
E-bok, 2016
187 kr
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Being Alive is the sequel to Neil Astley’s Staying Alive , which became Britain’s most popular poetry book because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world. Now he has assembled this equally lively companion anthology for all those readers who’ve …
Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar
a book of strange & comic poems
Av Neil Astley
E-bok, 2015
168 kr
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This lively anthology brings together two kinds of funny: humorous poems that make you laugh or smile (funny ha-ha), and strange, surreal, witty or plain weird poems (funny peculiar). There has always been a tradition of comic and curious verse in English poetry, but in contemporary poetry the …
Land of Three Rivers
The Poetry of North-East England
Av Neil Astley
Häftad, 2017
361 kr
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Land of Three Rivers is a celebration of North-East England in poetry, featuring its places and people, culture, history, language and stories in poems and songs with both rural and urban settings. Taking its bearings from the Tyne, Wear and Tees of the title (from Vin Garbutt's song 'John North'), …
Land of Three Rivers
The Poetry of North-East England
Av Neil Astley
E-bok, 2017
243 kr
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Land of Three Rivers is a celebration of North-East England in poetry, featuring its places and people, culture, history, language and stories in poems and songs with both rural and urban settings. Taking its bearings from the Tyne, Wear and Tees of the title (from Vin Garbutt’s song ‘John North’), …
Staying Human
new poems for Staying Alive
Av Neil Astley
E-bok, 2020
246 kr
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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’, …
Soul Food
Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds
Av Pamela Robertson-Pearce, Neil Astley
E-bok, 2020
149 kr
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Soul Food is a feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit. Drawn from many traditions, ranging from Rumi, Kabir and Blake, to Rilke, Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan, this wide-ranging selection includes enormously varied work by celebrated contemporary poets such as Jane …
Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me
Av Neil Astley, Brendan Kennelly
E-bok, 2022
246 kr
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Fairoz is a book-length poetry sequence in which Moniza Alvi explores an imagined teenage girl’s susceptibility to extremism. The book’s fragmented, collaging narrative draws together fairytale elements, glimpses of Fairoz’s thoughts, and pieces of dialogue. A folkloric representation of God and …
Soul Feast
nourishing poems of hope & light: a companion anthology to Soul Food
Av Neil Astley, Neil Astley m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
166 kr
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Soul Feast is a companion anthology to Soul Food, offering up a further feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit, bringing hope and light in dark, uncertain times.This book’s inspiration – Soul Food – achieved its wide popularity by word of mouth. For many thousands of readers …
Soul Feast
nourishing poems of hope & light: a companion anthology to Soul Food
Av Pamela Robertson-Pearce, Neil Astley
E-bok, 2024
160 kr
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Soul Feast is a companion to the hugely popular poetry anthology Soul Food , offering up a further feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit, bringing hope and light in dark, uncertain times. The original Soul Food anthology (2007) achieved its wide popularity by word of mouth. …
Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me
100 classic poems with commentary
Av Brendan Kennelly, Brendan Kennelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
185 kr
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The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me is the ultimate reader’s companion to poetry: a selection of 100 classic poems from ?ve centuries with lively “companion” commentaries to go with and illuminate each poem. The heavy bear can be many things which go with the bearer: another self or alter ego, the …
Pleased to See Me
69 Very Sexy Poems
Av Neil Astley
Häftad, 2002
123 kr
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'Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?' Mae West’s racy wisecrack could have been aimed at this book, which is packed with 69 high-calibre, sharp-shooting poems. Pleased to See Me bulges with boldly playful and seriously sensual treatments of everything you ever wanted to …
Do Not Go Gentle
poems for funerals
Häftad, 2003
162 kr
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This wide-ranging selection combines popular choices of traditional poems read at funerals with powerful poems by contemporary writers more tuned to our present age of doubt and disbelief. There are poems here for churchgoers and believers, including classic verses of grief and consolation by John …
Soul Food
Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds
Av Neil Astley, Neil Astley m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
139 kr
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"Soul Food" is a feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit. Drawn from many traditions, ranging from Rumi, Kabir and Blake, to Rilke, Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan, this wide-ranging selection includes enormously varied work by celebrated contemporary poets such as Jane …
Earth Shattering
Ecopoems
Häftad, 2007
246 kr
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"Earth Shattering" lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction. Whether the subject - or target - is the whole earth (global warming, climate change, extinction of species, planetary catastrophe)or landscapes, homelands and cities (polluting rivers and seas, …
In Person: 30 Poets
Häftad, 2008
169 kr
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Thirty poets from around the world read to you in person. This is a new concept in publishing: your own personal poetry festival brought into your home. Each poet reads to you for about ten minutes - up to half a dozen poems chosen from across the range of their work. "In Person" is a collaboration …
Being Human
the companion anthology to Staying Alive and Being Alive
Häftad, 2011
179 kr
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Being Human is the third book in the Staying Alive series of anthologies. Staying Alive and its sequel Being Alive have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. Being Human is a companion volume to those two books – a world poetry anthology offering poetry lovers an even …
World Record
international voices from South Bank Centre's Poetry Parnassus
Häftad, 2012
149 kr
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"The World Record" is an international anthology of work by poets from all the countries taking part in the 2012 London Olympics, featuring a poem from each of the 204 Olympic nations, from Armenia to Tuvalu, Azerbaijan to Turkmenistan. With this book you can discover the world through its keenest …
Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar
a book of strange & comic poems
Av Neil Astley
Häftad, 2015
144 kr
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This lively anthology brings together two kinds of funny: humorous poems that make you laugh or smile (funny ha-ha), and strange, surreal, witty or plain weird poems (funny peculiar). There has always been a tradition of comic and curious verse in English poetry, but in contemporary poetry the …
In Person: World Poets
Av Neil Astley, Pamela Robertson-Pearce
Häftad, 2017
219 kr
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In 2008, Bloodaxe published the world's first DVD-anthology, In Person: 30 Poets, a new concept in publishing: readings by 30 poets published by Bloodaxe in its first 30 years captured on film, with all the poems included in the footage printed in the book of the films. Its sequel, In Person: World …
