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.
The Lover's Pinch 
Poems 
River Lane 
The Silvering 
Signs Like This 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
Strong in the Rain 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
Milk and Honey 
The 'White City' 
My Family and Other Superheroes 
Soemps 
Poems & Fragments 
Paris, Stage Left 
The Moon Before Morning 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Dog Poems 
Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy 
Chameleon 
Spiritlands 
Being Alive 
Imagine - John Lennon, Yoko Ono Lennon, Amnesty International illustrated by Jean Jullien 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
Guises 
The Claims Office