Staying Alive Matthew Hedley StoppardIn her fourth poetry collection, Staying Alive, Laura Sims envisions the state of the world and of human existence before, during and after the forever imminent apocalypse. In channeling and sampling works of apocalyptic fiction and non fiction The War of the Worlds, The World Without Us, How to Stay Alive in the Woods, and The Road, to name a few the poems, along with a final essay, explore multiple world endings and their possible outcomes, and pose
These stories crystallize the shifts in Guyana’s uncomfortable fortunes in the post-colonial period
had an authoritative text by a well-loved Hertford teacher
Guest Literature: British poet
childhood friends reunite in London
“[An] astounding Welsh poet with performances that get you in the emotional gut…”
jihadi suicide-bombers and singing yellowhammers parade through the book in an incendiary combination
to its sad decline in the 20th century
and includes new material from the sequences 'Poems for Luke'
including one short lyric where floodwater puddles seem to resemble war-torn continents
as they conjure relationships and exchanges
'the mucus of slugs'
Paul de Roux
