Neil Astley

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 poetry anthology offering an even broader, international selection of 'real poems for unreal times'. The range of poetry...

Being Alive is the sequel to Neil Astley's Staying Alive, which became Britain's most popular poetry book because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world. Now he has assembled this equally lively companion anthology for all those readers who have wanted more poems that touch the heart, stir the mind and fire...

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 series contains 500 poems to touch the heart, stir the mind, and fire the spirit. These books have been enormously popular with readers, especially...

Staying 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...