Not Just a Game: Sporting Poems - Softcover

From the first length to the final frame, from Jack Hobbs to Brian Clough, from 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. Not Just a Game celebrates individual achievement and collective effort, personal satisfaction and public pride, superhuman endurance and skill exchanged for the rewards of immortality. 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.

Poets include James Berry, John Betjeman, Wendy Cope, Douglas Dunn, UA Fanthorpe, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Roger McGough, Andrew Motion, as well as others known less for their poetry such as PG Wodehouse and John Arlott. Ian McMillan's foreword welcomes us to the field of play.