Overview

Soul Feast is a companion to the hugely popular poetry anthologySoul Food, offering up a further feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit, bringing hope and light in dark, uncertain times. The originalSoul Food. All these poems are universal illuminations of the meaning of life, speaking to readers of all faiths as well as to seekers and non-believers. Drawn from many traditions, Soul Feast includes work by poets ranging from Lal Ded and Tukaram to Pessoa, Borges, Cummings and Langston Hughes, as well as poems by celebrated contemporary poets such as Ellen Bass, Imtiaz Dharker, Jane Hirshfield and Naomi Shihab Nye. This is a book to keep by the bedside or to keep with you when travelling.

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Author:   Neil Astley ,  Pamela Robertson-Pearce
Publisher:   Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Imprint:   Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Edition:   Paperback original
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 16.30cm
ISBN:  

9781780377063

ISBN 10:   1780377061
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   21 March 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. JOURNEYS Lorna Crozier 11 Packing for the Future: Instructions Mary O’Donnell 13 The Intimate Future Julius Chingono 14 As I Go Jericho Brown 15 Crossing Stanisłav Baranczak 16 If china William Stafford 17 The Way It Is Toon Tellegen 17 ‘I drew a line…’ Ruth Stone 18 Train Ride Tomas Tranströmer 19 Tracks Ted Kooser 20 November 12: 4.30 a.m. Kerry Hardie 21 We Go On Lal Ded 22 Two poems 2. SOUL SEARCH Jane Hirshfield 23 Counting, New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me Kona Macphee 25 The Gift Denise Levertov 25 The Gift Arun Kolatkar 26 Yeshwant Rao Tukaram 28 ‘When he comes…’ Kathleen Ossip 30 The Believer Dennis O’Driscoll 31 Fabrications Edward Hirsch 35 I Was Never Able to Pray Giorgio Caproni 36 Prayer Arundhathi Subramaniam 37 Prayer Jorge Luis Borges 38 Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf Peter Sirr 39 A Saxon Primer Lucie Brock-Boido 40 Soul Keeping Company Adriana Lisboa 41 Soul Washing May Swenson 42 Question 3. LIFE ON EARTH Denise Levertov 43 O Taste and See Linda Pastan 44 Imaginary Conversation Muriel Rukeyser 45 Yes Gregory Orr 46 To Be Alive Rosemary Tonks 47 Addiction to an Old Mattress Maya C. Popa 48 Dear Life Marin Sorescu 49 With Only One Life John McCullogh 50 Watermelon Man Ada Limón 51 Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance Jack Hirschman 52 Path Jack Gilbert 53 A Brief for the Defense Ellen Bass 54 The Thing Is Ellen Bass 55 Any Common Desolation Joan Margarit 56 Love Is a Place Jane Hirshfield 57 A Cedary Fragrance Chase Twichell 58 Saint Animal Mona Arshi 59 Little Prayer William Stafford 60 Listening Tuvia Ruebner 61 Wonder Jeong Ho-seung 62 A Spider Jane Hirshfield 63 The Supple Deer Jane Hirshfield 64 The Envoy Lynne Wycherley 65 The Substitute Sky Marie Howe 66 Postscript 4. ALL TOGETHER NOW Fernando Pessoa 67 They Spoke to Me of People, and of Humanity. Vincent Katz 68 This Beautiful Bubble Naomi Shihab Nye 70 Gate A-4 Imtiaz Dharker 72 How to Cut a Pomegranate Imtiaz Dharker 73 Crab-apples John Koethe 74 Lives Tomas Tranströmer 75 After Someone’s Death Taha Muhammad Ali 76 Maybe A.E. Housman 77 ‘Good creatures…’ Tomas Tranströmer 78 Alone Jeong Ho-seung 80 To Daffodils Sandra McPherson 81 Some Meanings of Silence John O’Donohue 82 from For the Break-up of a Relationship Naomi Shihab Nye 82 The Art of Disappearing Lee Young-ju 84 Lumberjack Diary Naomi Shihab Nye 85 Shoulders Lauren Halderman 86 from Instead of Dying Chen Chen 87 a small book of questions: chapter VII Mary Jean Chan 90 Conversation with a Fantasy Mother Jane Clarke 91 Spalls Sandra Cisneros 92 At Fifty I Am Startled to Find I Am in My Splendor Doug Anderson 93 Homage to Li Po Alicia Ostriker 94 Wrinkly Lady Dancer Lucille Clifton 95 homage to my hips Norigo Ibaragi 96 When I Was at My Most Beautiful Norigo Ibaragi 98 Your Own Sensitivity at Least Linda Pastan 99 I Am Learning to Abandon the World Joy Harjo 100 I Am a Prayer 5. HOPE & LIGHT Imtiaz Dharker 102 Carving Kerry Hardie 103 Flesh Alyson Hallett 104 Suddenly, Everything E.E. Cummings 105 ‘i thank You God for most this amazing’ Edip Cansever 106 Table Elena Shvarts 107 ‘Set your course by the Sun…’ Imtiaz Dharker 108 Living Space Brendan Kennelly 109 Permission Adam Zagajewski 109 Wake Up Danusha Laméris 110 Insha’Allah Miroslav Holub 111 The door Roger Robinson 112 A Portable Paradise Boris A. Novak 113 Decisions: II Ivan V. Lalc 114 The Spaces of Hope Lisel Muller 115 Hope Enda Coyle-Greene 116 Hope Edith Södergran 117 Hope Ellen Cranitch 118 Hope Ai Qing 119 The Lamp Samuel Menashe 119 Now Langston Hughes 120 Dreams Langston Hughes 120 Harlem [2] Brendan Kennelly 121 Good Souls to Survive Molly Fisk 122 Against Panic Michael D. Higgins 123 The Well 2 Leanne O’Sullivan 124 A Healing Paula Meehan 125 Seed Derek Mahon 126 Everything Is Going To Be All Right 127 Notes on the poets 153 Acknowledgements 159 Index of writers

Reviews

These poems illuminate the path of life. -- Rachel Campbell-Johnston * The Times, on Soul Food * 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, on Soul Food * These poems will reconnect you with happiness, kindness, beauty and joy. They will teach you how to be here, now, fully aware and alive... Buy this book! You will be investing in happiness for days - and even dark lonely nights - to come. -- Anne Ashworth * Universalist: The Journal of the Quaker Universalist Group, on Soul Food *

Author Information

Neil Astley and Pamela Robertson-Pearce are co-editors of the Bloodaxe anthologies Soul Food (2007) and Soul Feast (2024), and collaborated on the DVD-books In Person: 30 Poets (2008) and In Person: World Poets (2017). Neil Astley is editor of Bloodaxe Books which he founded in 1978. His books include many anthologies, most notably those in the Staying Alive series: Staying Alive (2002), Being Alive (2004), Being Human (2011) and Staying Human (2020). Pamela Robertson-Pearce is an artist, filmmaker and translator. Her films include Imago: Meret Oppenheim (1996), on the artist who made the fur-lined teacup, and Gifted Beauty (2000), about Surrealist women artists including Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo.

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