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Neil Astley lives in the Tarset Valley in north Northumberland. He is the editor of Bloodaxe Books, which he founded in 1978. He has published several poetry anthologies, including Staying Alive, Poetry with an Edge and New Blood, a critical book on Tony Harrison, and two collections, Darwin Survivor (Peterloo, 1988: Poetry Book Society Recommendation) and Biting My Tongue (Bloodaxe, 1995). He has received a Gregory Award for his poetry and a D.Litt from Newcastle University for his work with Bloodaxe Books. The End of My Tether, his first novel, was written with the assistance of several animals.
 
 
New and upcoming books
March 2024

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Soul Feast
 
Novels
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Collections
   Darwin Survivor (poems) (1988)
   Biting My Tongue (poems) (1995)
   Magnetic North (2005) (with others)
   Passionfood (poems) (2014)
   Funny Ha Ha Funny Peculiar (poems) (2015)
   Land of Three Rivers (poems) (2017)
   Soul Food (poems) (2020) (with Pamela Robertson-Pearce)
   Staying Human (poems) (2020)
   The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me (poems) (2022) (with Brendan Kennelly)
   Soul Feast (poems) (2024) (with Pamela Robertson-Pearce)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Speechless Act (1984)
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Anthologies edited
   Ten North-East Poets (1980)
   Bossy Parrot (1987)
   Poetry with an Edge (1988)
   Poetry with a Sharper Edge (1990)
   New Blood (1999)
   Staying Alive (2002)
   Pleased to See Me (2002)
   Bloodaxe Poems of the Year: 2003 (2003)
   Do Not Go Gentle (2003)
   Being Alive (2004)
   In Person (2008)
   Being Human (2011)
   Essential poems from the Staying Alive trilogy (2012)
   The World Record (2012) (with Anna Selby)
   The Hundred Years' War (2014)
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