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.
Steep Tea 
Does She Like Word-Games? 
Dog Poems 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
Bedouin Of The London Evening: Collected Poems 
Silly Rhymes and Limericks 
Strong in the Rain 
Floss 
Counting Backwards 
States of Happiness 
Selected Poetry 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
The Shepherd War Poet 
On the Motion and Immobility of Douve 
Bragr 
Versions of Martial 
The Princess and the Wizard: Book and CD Pack 
The Moon Before Morning 
The Sea Migrations 
The Fire of Joy 
Disturbance