Life Support - 100 Poems to Reach for on Dark Nights

This carefully selected little book will offer solace. There are poems that offer the reader an escape from the constant chatter of everyday thought; that make space for the unexpected; that help 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. It will differ from other 'self-help' style anthologies in that it won't be designed to offer bland consolation - 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 - 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.