"Soul Food" is a feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit. Drawn from many traditions, ranging from Rumi, Kabir and Blake, to Rilke, Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan, this wide-ranging selection includes enormously varied work by celebrated contemporary poets such as Jane Hirshfield, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton and Mary Oliver, as well as by many lesser-known writers from all periods and places. The anthology opens with a series of poems on human life and spiritual sustenance, starting with Rumi: 'This being human is a guest house./Each morning a new arrival...'. The poems which follow explore many ways of keeping body and soul together, offering food for thought on knowing yourself, living with nature, who or what is God...All are universal illuminations of the meaning of life, speaking to readers of all faiths as well as to searchers and non-believers. "Soul Food" shows how poetry can help feed our hunger for meaning in times of spiritual starvation. "Soul Food" includes Anna Akhmatova, Maya Angelou, Coleman Barks, William Blake, John Burnside, Paul Celan, Chuang-Tzu, Emily Dickinson, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jane Hirshfield, George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Kabir, Jane Kenyon, Lal Ded (Lalla), DH Lawrence, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton, Czeslaw Milosz, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mary Oliver, Amrita Pritam, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rumi, St John of the Cross, Edith Södergran, Anna Swir, Wislawa Szymborska, Shinkichi Takahashi, RS Thomas, and many others…
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"Soul Food" offers a wide range…These poems illuminate the path of life. --Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times
These are poems for the human race at all times, be they celebratory or reflective. --Margaret Speak, Yorkshire Post
A friend gave me a copy of "Soul Food" as a gift... I thought it was so good that I gave it away to another friend within a matter of days, and bought myself a new copy, which I also gave away... I continue to buy copies for friends... I have read this book through from beginning to end a number of times now, and each time I am left with my spirit uplifted and a wondrous sense of warm joy in my soul. Not only is each poem fine, but reading the whole collection reads feels like the privilege of sharing another human's spiritual journey for a while. --Henry Morgan, The Merton Journal
These are poems for the human race at all times, be they celebratory or reflective. --Margaret Speak, Yorkshire Post
A friend gave me a copy of "Soul Food" as a gift... I thought it was so good that I gave it away to another friend within a matter of days, and bought myself a new copy, which I also gave away... I continue to buy copies for friends... I have read this book through from beginning to end a number of times now, and each time I am left with my spirit uplifted and a wondrous sense of warm joy in my soul. Not only is each poem fine, but reading the whole collection reads feels like the privilege of sharing another human's spiritual journey for a while. --Henry Morgan, The Merton Journal
These are poems for the human race at all times, be they celebratory or reflective. --Margaret Speak, Yorkshire Post
A friend gave me a copy of "Soul Food" as a gift... I thought it was so good that I gave it away to another friend within a matter of days, and bought myself a new copy, which I also gave away... I continue to buy copies for friends... I have read this book through from beginning to end a number of times now, and each time I am left with my spirit uplifted and a wondrous sense of warm joy in my soul. Not only is each poem fine, but reading the whole collection reads feels like the privilege of sharing another human's spiritual journey for a while. --Henry Morgan, The Merton Journal
These are poems for the human race at all times, be they celebratory or reflective. --Margaret Speak, Yorkshire Post
A friend gave me a copy of "Soul Food" as a gift... I thought it was so good that I gave it away to another friend within a matter of days, and bought myself a new copy, which I also gave away... I continue to buy copies for friends... I have read this book through from beginning to end a number of times now, and each time I am left with my spirit uplifted and a wondrous sense of warm joy in my soul. Not only is each poem fine, but reading the whole collection reads feels like the privilege of sharing another human's spiritual journey for a while. --Henry Morgan, The Merton Journal
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NEIL ASTLEY is editor of Bloodaxe Books. He has published several other anthologies, including Staying Alive, Being Alive, Do Not Go Gentle, Passionfood and Earth Shattering and and the DVD-book In Person: 30 Poets filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce, as well as two novels, The End of My Tether (Scribner), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2002, and The Sheep Who Changed the World (Flambard, 2005). He lives in Northumberland. PAMELA ROBERTSON-PEARCE is an artist and filmmaker. Her films include Imago: Meret Oppenheim (1996) and Gifted Beauty (2000). She has shown her work in solo exhibitions in New York and Provincetown, and in various group shows in the US and Europe. Born in Stockholm, she grew up in Sweden, Spain and England, then lived mostly in America - also working in Switzerland, Norway and Albania - before moving to Northumberland. With Neil Astley she edited the anthology "Soul Food" and filmed the poets for Bloodaxe's DVD-book "In Person: 30 Poets".
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as comfort and merriment. You could live by it, or give it to someone you love. It fits in your jacket pocket.
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Some of these I knew already, some I didn't. You can read them over and over again, just lovely. Absolutely worth it.
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Lovely anthology
This book contains some beautiful examples of inspirational poetry both contemporary and ancient sources. I love it so much I have bought at least 3 other copies for good friends. Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2010 by Jane K
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Soul Food
A lovely wide mix of poems, both familiar and new, ranging from Kabir and Rumi to Oliver and Duffy via John of the Cross, Blake, Rilke, Thomas and others translated from a variety... Read more
Published on 25 April 2010 by Morag
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I found a lot of the poems in this volume to be inaccessible. Just couldn't get into it. Would not recommend to anyone. Read more
Published on 10 Aug 2009 by Scarlett
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Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds
Varied but always insightful mainly poetry of today, the book is immaculately laid out and there is a strong determination... Read more
Varied but always insightful mainly poetry of today, the book is immaculately laid out and there is a strong determination... Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2009 by Mr. C. J. Heyworth
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