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.
A Quarter of an Hour 
The First Poems in English (Penguin Classics) 
Gold from the Stone 
Selected Poetry 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Counting Backwards 
The New Pornography 
Clueless Dogs 
The Tamarit Poems 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
Jazz Poems 
Red Devon