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1. Neil Astley Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times
2. Jackie Kay: Darling
3. Neil Astley & Pamela Robertson-Pearce: Soul Food
4. Neil Astley Being Alive: the sequel to Staying Alive
5. Neil Astley: Earth Shattering
6. Edna Longley Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry
7. Mary Oliver Wild Geese: Selected Poems
8. Neil Astley Do Not Go Gentle: poems for funerals
9. Deryn Rees-Jones Modern Women Poets
10. Benjamin Zephaniah Too Black, Too Strong

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Founded in Newcastle in 1978, Bloodaxe is based in Northumberland's Tarset valley, with a sales office in North Wales.

Bloodaxe celebrates its 30th birthday in 2008. The programme for the anniversary year fully reflects the innovative, international and diverse range of Bloodaxe’s publishing, including the first ever poetry DVD-book – a film and book anthology of readings by 30 leading poets – and new titles by some of Bloodaxe’s most celebrated writers. There are first collections by exciting new British talents and UK debuts by major names in world poetry, as well as the most authoritative edition of Edward Thomas’s poetry and a definitive, global anthology of contemporary Indian poets.

Bloodaxe has revolutionised poetry publishing in Britain over the past 30 years. Internationally renowned for quality in literature and excellence in book design, its authors and books have won virtually every major literary award given to poetry, from the T.S. Eliot Prize and Pulitzer to the Nobel Prize. Its anthologies Staying Alive and Being Alive have broken new ground by opening up contemporary poetry to many thousands of new readers.