Life Support: 100 Poems to Reach for on Dark Nights
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By Julia Copus
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These carefully selected poems will offer solace; provide an escape from the constant chatter of everyday thought; help make space for the unexpected; enable us to reinvent ourselves within the chaotic landscape of our lives.
Some will be old favourites; others less well-known; all the poems will have the power to surprise or move.
A deeper, more lasting comfort comes from art that makes us sit up and listen, that reawakens the senses and offers new ways of looking – this is poetry that, in the best sense, unsettles us, in order to reconnect us with the world around us and bring us to a place of greater clarity.
The anthology will be divided into the following sections: The deep heart’s core (poems about places of sanctuary); As a boy I stood before it for hours (poems that remind us to place our focus ‘out there’; that show us how to be mindful); A world in a grain of sand (poems that play with the notion of scale, so that the tiny becomes large and the large tiny – putting things in perspective); Stilll life (poems about focusing on a specific moment); and Another Self (poems on friendship/companionship; a sense of everyone being in the same boat).
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Review by Linda of Duloch Library Tuesday Reading Group
This book is called Life Support edited by Julie Copus. It has 100 poems all written by different authors.
I did enjoy reading most of the poems in this book but for me some of them I just didn’t “get”.
I especially enjoyed and could relate to the one about Ironing.
Anyway I don’t think it’s a waste of time reading this poetry book but instead I think it makes you think more about language and emotional thoughts and this book certainly covers all of that.
