Description
Inspired by the lyrical, mythic mode of Italian sports journalism from the 1930s to the 1950s, Viva Bartali! is a biography-in-verse of the iconic Italian cyclist Gino Bartali (1914-2000), two-time winner of the Tour de France (1938, 1948), known both as ‘Gino the Pious’ because of his fervent Catholic faith, and as Ginettaccio (‘Gino the Terrible’), owing to the short shrift he so often gave the Press.
The collection gives us an insight into the complex relationship that underpinned his great rivalry with the campionissimo (‘champion of champions’) Fausto Coppi – the ‘man of glass’ against Bartali’s ‘man of iron’. It was a rivalry that a divided a nation and defined a sport.
Floss 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Ten Poems from Ireland 
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
The Taste of Steel 
Back By Demand 
The Handle of the Door 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Ten Poems about Aunts (Selected and introduced by Anne Harvey) 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
Soemps 
La Vita Nuova 
Strong in the Rain 
The Tamarit Poems 
Book of Mercy 
Lotus Gatherers 
She Inserts the Key