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Palmer, Clive Alan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 (2009) The Sporting Image: Sports Poetry and Creative Writing. University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), Preston, UK.. ISBN 978-0-9562343-2-2

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This book is a collection of sports related poetry and creative writing which stemmed from a university module called The Sporting Image. Following a poetry writing workshop to help students structure their ideas and poetry writing skills an engaging degree of self-expression about sporting concepts seems to have emerged which we are proud to showcase within these pages. Many sports are featured including boxing, cricket, football and gymnastics and many issues tackled such as teamwork, comradeship, cheating, beauty and ugliness in sport. Consequently this is a varied compilation which we hope the reader will find as enjoyable to read or even perform, as we have had in producing it.

Contents

Section title
Section author
Page
Foreword: I don’t like the way the evidence is building up
John Lindley
0
Introduction: Pedagogical Poetry: ‘new’ degrees of freedom to explore and express ideas about sporting life
Clive Palmer
1
A United Manchester City
Leah Berry
6
(Beckham) Hatred and Emotion
David Elwood
7
The Cup
Nick Houldsworth
8
A Game of Three Halves
Robert Hendry
9
Then and Now
Daniel Smith
10
Gambling for the Good Life
Kirsty Monahan
11
A Golden Era
James Hedley
12
The Battlefield I Chose
Eddie Garbutt
13
Muhammad Ali
Sarah Lambert
14
Changing a Nation with a Ball and a Hoop
Rael Mason
15
Born Free or Are We?
John Collins
16
The Deafening Silence
Rikin Suchak
17
They Were Part of the US Sprinting Team
Damian Burke
18
I’m Champion, I am
Ashleigh Todd-Ellis
19
The Battle of Boxing
Damian Harland
20
Our Club
James Bromfield
21
A Bright Red Ball
Josh Allen
22
It’s The Winning That Counts
Josh Allen
23
Black and White Army
Tim Corby
24
Overtime
Christopher Bunclark
25
Famously Obscure
Philip Wright
26
Who?
Stephanie Bedford
27
The Gentlemen in White
Tom Binns
28
Precious Football
Nicholas Lester
29
Home from Home
Anthony Raftery
30
Football Day Out
Antony Pearse
31
Fanta-spursdom
Samuel Van Gelder
32
Action Reaction
Kristian Sommer
33
Going to War
Dean McAfee
34
Class of ’99
Emmanuel Edet
35
A Red Goliath
Joe Rimmer
36
Testing, Testing
Kim Blythe
37
The Match
Luke Raine
38
Is This the End?
Francesca Mayes
39
The Gift of Football
Sam Marsden
40
Same Old, Same Old
Craig Cayton
41
Saturday Best
Michael Lee
42
The Ball is My Shepherd
Aled Bryon
43
Divided We Stand
Michael Hagan
44
A Long Road to Equality
Jamie Renton
45
Peter the Great
Eamon Cullen
47
One Moment of Madness
Stephen Donnelly
48
An Alien’s First Wimbledon
Andrew Holt
49
Eric the King
Kevin McAlynn
50
No Time Like the Present
Jonathan Adamson
51
Heroes
Tom Hyde
54
Artistic Gymnastics
Neil Randell
55
My Dream, My Memory
Neil Randell
56
Final Whistle
Treve Whitford
57
Aretians RFC
Benjamin Pellant
58
Pre-Party From Across the Pond
Richard English
60
Accidental… Honest?
Andrew Cottrell
61
The Men’s 50m Butterfly, Heat 2
John Crossley
62
Jackie
Philip Wicinski
63
What is Art?
Zoe Horton
64
David and Goliath 86
Tariq Elrayes
65
Together
John Johnston
66
A Moment of Glory
Sadhbn O’Shea
67
Spectating
Paul Ray
68
We Must Take a Stand
Sean Molyneux
69
Revision and Football
Daniel Dill
70
Player’s Talk
Jamie King
71
Cassius
Alastair Bunker
72
The Miracle of Istanbul
Joel Rookwood
73
Financial security: Mr Mouse and the Tough Guy Challenge
Billy Wilson
75
Casualski: Hospitalisation Moscow style… written through sheer boredom, 28th May 2007
Paul Hall
80

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