Survivors
First sentence
Stephan heard the screen door open, then lazily shut as it was drawn toward the frame by the sagging spring...
Description
Survivors was my second book of poems, mostly written while I was working as a schoolteacher in Suffolk and published when I was 28. The idea of the collection was to put humans into some kind of appropriate context in relation to other living things, and their own environments. The title comes from a poem near the back of the book, the full quote from which is 'we are not heroes but survivors'. What I meant by that was that we are all equal - we, one with another, and we as humans with all other living forms. We have all made it this far; we are all survivors. Many of the poems deal with my personal relationships and with events that happened at that time. William Peskett, 27 August 2011