{"product_id":"staying-human-9781780373904","title":"Staying Human","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStaying Human\u003c\/i\u003e is the latest addition to Bloodaxe's bestselling \u003ci\u003eStaying Alive\u003c\/i\u003e series of world poetry anthologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first title in the series, \u003ci\u003eStaying Alive\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), has sold 253,000 copies worldwide, including 50,000 copies of an American edition (2003) licensed to Miramax (9781401359263). It was launched in New York by Meryl Streep and others at a gala event at the Cooper Union in New York and became a set text at many US colleges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second and third titles in the series, \u003ci\u003eBeing Alive\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) and \u003ci\u003eBeing Human\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), have sold 55,000 and 25,000 copies respectively, mainly in the UK and Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStaying Human\u003c\/i\u003e is the first title in the series to be published in the US since Miramax's US edition of \u003ci\u003eStaying Alive\u003c\/i\u003e ('real poems for unreal times') in 2003.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnthologies in the \u003ci\u003eStaying Alive\u003c\/i\u003e series have been endorsed by leading writers and other cultural figures, including Meryl Streep, Van Morrison, John Berger, Edmund White, Helen Dunmore, Mia Farrow, Jane Campion, Anne Michaels, Ellie Goulding, Philip Pullman, Kamila Shamsie, and Beth Orton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis fourth Bloodaxe world poetry anthology offers poetry lovers an even broader, international selection of 500 more 'real poems for unreal times'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere's a strong focus on the human side of living in the 21st century in poems from the past two decades relating to migration, oppression, alienation, and the individual's struggle to hold on. \u003ci\u003eStaying Human\u003c\/i\u003e also draws on poems suggested by readers because they've been so important in their own lives, as well as many poems which have gone viral after being shared on social media because they speak to our times with such great immediacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLate additions have brought it right up to date with the inclusion of some amazing poems written in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems are by writers from around the world but principally from the UK, US, Ireland, Europe, and the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is the one poetry book you need to buy this year.' - \u003ci\u003eO The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e on the Miramax edition of \u003ci\u003eStaying Alive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I love \u003ci\u003eStaying Alive\u003c\/i\u003e and keep going back to it. \u003ci\u003eBeing Alive\u003c\/i\u003e is just as vivid, strongly present and equally beautifully organised. But this new book feels even more alive. I think it has a heartbeat, or maybe that's my own thrum humming along with the music of these poets. Sitting alone in a room with these poems is to be assured that you are not alone, you are not crazy (or if you are, you're not the only one who thinks this way!) I run home to this book to argue with it, find solace in it, to locate myself in the world again.' - Meryl Streep\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464229273836,"sku":"9781780373904","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781780373904-staying-human.jpg?v=1775043768","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/staying-human-9781780373904","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}