Set Thy Love in Order by Stephen Romer Chatto & Windus Being Alive is the sequel

Being Alive is the sequel to Neil Astley’s Staying Alive

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Set Thy Love in Order by Stephen Romer Chatto & Windus Being Alive is the sequelSet Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems gathers the work of some thirty years, taken from Stephen Romers four previous collections, along with a substantial selection of new poems. The title is a Dantesque imperative as old as the Trecento: Ordina questo amore, O tu che m ami set thy love in order, o thou who lovest me. Romers central theme is encapsulated by these words, and his prolonged and painstaking exploration of the intermittences of the