& Jackie Litherland has written a whole manuscript of cricket poems :-)
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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From: "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: Snap -Wed 5/7
> umm, there was a stab at Men and Football poetry by some "Northern"
> poet and the like. Ian MacMillan, thankgoogle, is attached to Bradford
> City FC.
>
> There's always Vitai Lampada: that's more about war than peace - see
> http://www.wargames.co.uk/Poems/lampada.htm
>
> then war and games usually get mixed up.
>
> Vernon Scammell was a *boxer*, Auden's Divers brilliant bow (that's
> more about sex than poetry), Lorca (Lament for Ignacio Sanchez
> Mejias). See http://bjsm.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/34/6/471 for
> some heavier content.
>
> umm, if you're in a less discerning mood, could try "football chants"
> or rugby songs
> http://www.footballchants.org/index.php
> http://www.rugbysongs.net/
> including the full words of eskimo nell. Robert Service would have been
proud!
>
> Roger
>
> On 13/07/06, Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Are there many good poems about sport? I remember as a child some verse
> > about King Willow.... Not much else...
> >
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