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Soul Feast is a companion to the hugely popular poetry anthology Soul 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 original
Soul Food anthology (2007) achieved its wide popularity by word of mouth. For many thousands of readers feeling adrift in the early years of the 21st century, the poems in that book offered support and sustenance. This new compilation once again shows how poetry can help sustain our search for meaning in the face of even more destructive and disorientating events. 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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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.
