Staying Alive edited by Neil Astley Michael Longley Bloodaxe published the world's first

Bloodaxe published the world's first DVD-anthology

taking you on a journey around many of the different aspects of everyday life explored in poems

"Beginning the Avocado" (1987)

Richard Price

Staying Alive edited by Neil Astley Michael Longley Bloodaxe published the world's firstStaying 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