Title: Staying alive : real poems for unreal times /
Authors: Astley, Neil.; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Bloodaxe,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Poetry, Modern
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Poets on poetry -- Introduction -- Wild Geese -- 1 Body and soul -- 2 Roads and journeys -- 3 Dead or alive -- 4 Bittersweet -- 5 Growing up -- 6 Man and beast -- 7 In and out of love -- 8 My people -- 9 War and peace -- 10 Disappearing acts -- 11 Me, the Earth, the Universe -- 12 The art of poetry -- The Sound of poetry -- Glossary -- Further reading -- Acknowledgements -- Index of writers -- Index of titles and first lines