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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 world and 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 and anxieties. 'Staying Alive' includes many of the great modern love poems and 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 and disruption. It will also speak to us when nothing seems to be happening, when the poem's importance is in helping us stay alive to the world and 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), and a companion anthology, 'Being Human' (2011), complete this poetry "trilogy".

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Edited by Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, one of the most acclaimed poetry publishers in the English-speaking world.

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"A compendium of hundreds of poems I love and would have chosen myself." -- Alice Quinn, Poetry Society of America

"A magnificent anthology." -- Philip Pullman

"A remarkable, lively collection." -- USA Today

"Addictive." -- Time Out New York

"Astonishingly rich...edgy, authentic and provocative." -- Edmund White

"Passionate...Staying Alive is a blessing of a book." -- Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces

"These poems distill the human heart as nothing else." -- Jane Campion

"This is the one poetry book you need to buy this year." -- O The Oprah Magazine

"Truly startling and powerful poems." -- Mia Farrow

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