I Love You, Football: Poems About the Beautiful Game

Type

Book

Authors

Tony Bradman

ISBN 10

0750242795

ISBN 13

9780750242790

Tags

Children's Books, British & Irish

Description

Covering a wide variety of aspects of football, both as sport and popular culture, from going to watch you favourite team, to kicking about in the park, collecting the club strip and playing for the school, this anthology represents the very best of poetry on one of the most popular subjects. It treats the theme seriously, though not without humour, and includes many well-known poets liked Alan Ahlberg, Ted Hughes. Roger McGough, Jackie Kay, Ian McMillan, Gerard Benson, John Foster, Nick Toczek, Paul Cookson, Roger Stevens, Brian Moses and many more. Tony Bradman is a highly respected children's poet, novelist and anthologiser who is himself a fanatic football lover and the author and editor of football stories for children including "One Nil" and three volumes of Football Fever". - from Amzon

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