Being Human edited by Neil Astley Bloodaxe
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Being Human edited by Neil Astley Bloodaxe - ISBN-10: 1852248092 The companion anthology to Staying Alive and Being Alive I love Staying Alive and keep going back to it. Being Alive is just as vivid… But this new book feels even more alive – I think it has a heartbeat’ – Meryl Streep. Being Human is the third book in the Staying Alive poetry trilogy. 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…
Review of Being Human Anthology-Times Saturday Review
The poetry of life, from cradle to grave – Bernardine Evaristo Neil Astley, the editor of this anthology and the founder-editor of Bloodaxe Books in 1978, has been a longstanding champion of the democratisation of poetry in Britain. At a time when many poetry editors still publish a narrow field of poetry, with an imbalance of white male poets and a preference for the quiet, understated, repressed voice, Astley’s poetry list is inclusive, gender balanced and international…. Astley has generally avoided poems so dense…
