Staying Alive edited by Neil Astley Michael Longley Richard Price

Richard Price

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

Mervyn Morris was born in Jamaica in 1937 and studied at the University College of the West Indies and St Edmund Hall

"Beginning the Avocado" (1987)

a stegosaurus is adored

Staying Alive edited by Neil Astley Michael Longley Richard PriceStaying 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