100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems
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100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems by Alistair Findlay
This is the first collection of Scots poetry devoted entirely to football. It includes many of 20th century Scotland's best known poets such as Hugh MacDiarmid, Norman MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith and Jackie Kay. Spanning centuries and a wide variety of perspectives on the popular sport, this brilliant collection sums up the best and the worst of football spirit.Perhaps verse is the ideal field for football's dreams to be realisedIt certainly works wonders on the pages of this effort collected up by Alistair Findlay THE LIST
In other countries, football is taken seriously enough, but only in Scotland is the game woven into the warp and weft of cultural life so seamlessly. That becomes clear when you read Findlay's latest work, 100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems, an edited odyssey through the nation's cultural history, seen through the prisms of poetry and football. THE TIMES
As an ex-senior oleyer, he kin descrieve the airt o fitba lik nae ither poet I ken o. LALLANS MAGAZINE
ALISTAIR FINDLAY has had a diverse career, from clay miner to social worker. He has published four previous collections of poetry, including Sex, Death and Football (2003), The Love Songs of John Knox (2006), Dancing with Big Eunice (2010) and Never Mind the Captions (2011).
Read Alistair’s profile by Angus Reid in the Morning Star.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781906307035 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906307032 |
| Title | 100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems |
| Author | Alistair Findlay |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Luath Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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