Launch of Not Just a Game: Sporting Poems, edited by Andy Croft and Sue Dymoke
Not Just a Game is a unique archive of modern British sporting life - angling, boxing, canoeing, cricket, darts, golf, motorcycling, netball, polo, rugby, rowing, running, skating, snooker, swimming and tennis - as recorded by contemporary poets like WH Auden, Wendy Cope, James Berry, John Betjeman, Jean Binta Breeze, PG Wodehouse, Carol Ann Duffy, Ted Hughes, Helen Dunmore, Douglas Dunn, Selima Hill, Sean O'Brien, Roger McGough and Jane Holland.
The book celebrates individual achievement and collective effort, personal satisfaction and public pride, superhuman endurance and skill exchanged for the rewards of immortality. From the first length to the final frame, the egg and spoon race to the Cup Final, from Jack Hobbs to Brian Clough, Centre Court to the Great North Run, Not Just a Game captures the tension and the laughter, the pain and the pleasure, and the blood, sweat and tears.
Venue: Sam's Place, Middlesbrough
Start time: 19:30 Mon 4 December 2006
Website: www.fiveleaves.co.uk/poetry.html#game
Admission free.
Sam's Place
144 Linthorpe Road
Middlesbrough
TS1 3QW
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N.B. Includes a humble effort of my own in the form of Baize Queens, a blunt poem on the trials of women snooker players!
Jane (Ed.)
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