ELEVEN POEMS ABOUT FOOTBALL (CANDLESTICK PRESS)

This anthology reveals why a seemingly straightforward team sport arouses such passion and lifelong devotion, including a poem capturing the romance of children playing street football until it’s almost too dark to see the ball, and another in which going to the match is a rite of passage for an immigrant boy seeking to belong. Poems by Simon Armitage, Tiffany Atkinson, Claire Crowther, Elaine Feeney, Miriam Gamble, Seamus Heaney, Gill Learner, Ian McMillan, Sean O’Brien, Conor O’Callaghan, George Szirtes and Sarah Wardle.