Staying Alive edited by Neil Astley Spanish Translator Forrest Gander beautifully renders

Translator Forrest Gander beautifully renders the eros and heartache

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

from true-life tales

like wrought iron'

or the need to accept loss

Staying Alive edited by Neil Astley Spanish Translator Forrest Gander beautifully rendersStaying 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