Description
What It‘s Like to Be Alive: Selected Poems marks a career milestone for the highly-acclaimed Liverpool based poet, Deryn Rees-Jones. Readers will find generous selections from her previously published prize-winning individual collections. These poems are intimately lyrical and possessed of a ‘devastating emotional power’ -John Burnside.







Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy
Days of Grace
Confessional Sonnets
This Changes Things
Rumi's Little Book Of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
Let Us Compare Mythologies
Silly Rhymes and Limericks
Selected Poetry
Chameleon
Florilingua
Counting Backwards
The Handle of the Door
Being Human
Disturbance