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...
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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 the spirit. These books have been enormously popular with readers, especially as gift books and bedside companions. The poems - by writers from many parts of the world - have emotional power, intellectual edge and playful wit. This new pocketbook selection of 100 essential poems from the trilogy is a S
Cover; Description; Title Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; Wild Geese; from Shape of Time; The Guest House; 'To be great, be whole…'; Living; Table; Second-Hand Coat; Could Have; Dawn Revisited; The door; Otherwise; Harlem [2]; Archaic Torso of Apollo; The Journey; Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota; Temptation; Begin; As I Go; Ithaka; The Layers; The Road Not Taken; The Way It Is; 'I drew a line…'; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; Migratory; Alone; Encounter; At the Fishhouses; Snow; A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford; Unwittingly; The Girl
Being the third song of UriasStarlight; from Clearances; Poem for a Daughter; Love; The Victory; She Leaves Me; A Little Tooth; After Making Love We Hear Footsteps; Great Things Have Happened; This Hour; Snow Melting; Wild strawberries; Strawberries; For Desire; You Don't Know What Love Is; Atlas; Love Song: I and Thou; Wedding; An Arundel Tomb; Love after Love; Missing God; Sheep Fair Day; from Of Gravity and Light; The Bright Field; Stationery; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; A Confession; O Taste and See; From Blossoms; The Simple Truth; Sweetness, Always; Happiness; Trio; The Present
'The washing never gets done…'A Man in His Life; Entirely; An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow; Kindness; One Art; Nothing Is Lost; The Weighing; Burlap Sack; Silence; A Brief for the Defense; Musée des Beaux Arts; The fly; The Place Where We Are Right; The Diameter of the Bomb; September Song; All of These People; The Red and the Black; Try to Praise the Mutilated World; Sweetness; Though There Are Torturers; It's This Way; Hijab Scene #7; They'll say, 'She must be from another country'; Aubade; Common and Particular; Funeral Blues; Memorial; Darling; Eden Rock; Gravy; Prayer; from Four Quartets
PostscriptLate Fragment; APPENDICES; NOTES ON POETS AND POEMS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INDEX OF WRITERS; INDEX OF TITLES; About the Author; Copyright
