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

energised by language which is in turn both tender and risky

This unmissable debut promises to speak about race in the UK as eloquently and with the same urgency and force as Claudia Rankine s CITIZEN did in the US

death and resurrection of language itself

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