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Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times - Community Reviews back

by Neil Astley
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XLeptodactylous
XLeptodactylous rated it 11 years ago
If anyone ever reviews the poems inside an anthology you should disregard it completely. I discovered my favourite poem within these pages, yet the entire collection was not to my taste. That is poetry.
Parrish Lantern's Casebook
Parrish Lantern's Casebook rated it 11 years ago
I recently bought a set of three poetry Anthologies, called Staying Alive, Being Alive and Being Human, or to be more accurate I purchased “Staying Alive” was so impressed that I bought the next and then the next (and even gave one as a prize in a Literary Giveaway), and they did that impossible thi...
Paradoxically
Paradoxically rated it 14 years ago
Not a fan of the cover or title. However, I am a fan of poetry and anthologies. When I first opened it to see Wild Geese by Mary Oliver, I knew I had made a good choice.
debnance
debnance rated it 15 years ago
I saw this on a recommended book list (Best Books of the Decade, I think). It is a lovely collection of poems. Lots of my favorites here. I’m adding this book to my wishlist at Amazon when I turn this copy back into the library.
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