Staying Alive edited by Neil Astley Spanish Swims cuts a path through

Swims cuts a path through Britain's waterways investigating the lasting human effect on nature and nature's unmistakable effect on us

or a set of modular combinations

the autobiographical poems of Progeny of Air

Translator Forrest Gander beautifully renders the eros and heartache

whose fluent style resembles Neruda’s well-known odes

Staying Alive edited by Neil Astley Spanish Swims cuts a path throughStaying 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