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NG56LFwww.candlestickpress.co.uk  \nDesign and typesetting by Diversity Creative Marketing Solutions Ltd.,www.diversity.agency  \nPrinted by Ratcliff &Roper Print Group,Nottinghamshire,UK  \nSelection and Introduction ◎ Conor O'Callaghan,2018  \nCover illustration Hugh Ribbans,2018  \nwww.hughribbans.com  \nCandlestick Press monogram Barbara Shaw,2008  \n◎ Candlestick Press,2018  \nISBN 9781907598586  \nAcknowledgements:  \nThe poems in this pamphlet are reprinted from the following books,all bypermission of the publishers listed unless stated otherwise.Every effort hasbeen made to trace the copyright holders of the poems published in this book.The editor and publisher apologise if any material has been included withoutpermission or without the appropriate acknowledgement,and would be glad to betold of anyone who has not been consulted.Thanks are due to all the copyrightholders cited below for their kind permission:  \nSimon Armitage,The Dead Sea Poems(Faber &Faber,1995)by kind permissionof the author and publisher  \nTiffany Atkinson,Catulla et al(Bloodaxe Books,2011)www.bloodaxebooks.comClaire Crowther,The Clockwork Gift(Shearsman Books,2009)  \nElaine Feeney,The Radio was Gospel(Ireland:Salmon Poetry,2013)  \nMiriam Gamble,The Squirrels are Dead(Bloodaxe Books,2011)www.bloodaxebooks.com  \nGill Learner,first appeared in 14 Magazine,Issue 10,and has since beenpublished in The Agister's Experiment(Two Rivers Press,2011)by kindpermission of the author  \nIan McMillan,for the Premier League and The Poetry Society by whom it wascommissioned,◎Ian McMillan,by permission of the author  \nSeamus Heaney,Seeing Things(Faber &Faber,1991)  \nSean O'Brien,Collected Poems(Picador,2012)by kind permission of the authorConor O'Callaghan,poem first published in this anthology  \nGeorge Szirtes,New&Collected Poems(Bloodaxe Books,2008)www.bloodaxebooks.com  \nSarah Wardle,Score!(Bloodaxe Books,2005)www.bloodaxebooks.com  \nWhere poets are no longer living,their dates are given.  \nAll permissions cleared courtesy of Swift Permissions(swiftpermissions @gmail.com)  \nPage  \nContents  \nIntroductionConor O'Callaghan5  \nMarkings(i)Seamus Heaney7  \nAgainst MetaphorSarah Wardle8  \nRyan Giggs is a RideElaine Feeney10  \nStreet FootballClaire Crowther12  \nAutumn Begins atSean O'Brien13St James's Park,Newcastle  \nTinkernessMiriam Gamble14  \nMarzipan BluesTiffany Atkinson15  \nPreston North EndGeorge Szirtes16  \nThe Game:lan McMillan18Christmas Day,1914  \n20  \nGoalkeeper with a CigaretteSimon Armitage  \nGill Learner  \n22  \nExile  \nCoda:from the touchline  \nAn Irishman Coaches theConor O'Callaghan24Beautiful Game inthe American South  \n,  \n# Introduction\n\nThe worlds of football and poetry scarcely overlap.Or do they?Football is,if you think about it,always likening itself to poetry.YouTube is awash with footage of goals that plummy vintagecommentators describe as ‘pure poetry'.The reverse is also true.Way back in 1883,five years before the formation of the first officialleague,the great Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote thus to RobertBridges in a moment of metaphorical self-pity:  \n\"I have long been Fortune's football and am blowing up the  \nbladder of resolution big and buxom for another kick of her foot.”Poetry,as we learned at school,has subject matter and themes.Thatsimply means that poems describe one thing and are also very oftenabout something bigger.Take Seamus Heaney's 'Markings'whichopens the selection.It describes playing football as a kid,and playingso long that dark falls and the ball gradually becomes invisible.The poem is also about that extraordinary everyday moment wheninstinct takes over from what we know and see.It is about,in aword,inspiration.  \nThis collection of footie-themed poems should provide further proofof the commonality between these apparently separate spheres.SarahWardle's 'Against Metaphor'","cbCaiffFxzWZa34k","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiffFxzWZa34k","pdf",1505972,28,"English","# 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