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.
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
The Silvering 
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
Silly Rhymes and Limericks 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Gold from the Stone 
Fresh Out of Dragonflies 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
On Love 
Being Alive 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
River Lane 
The Handle of the Door 
What Rhymes with Sneeze? 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
Steep Tea 
States of Happiness 
Soemps 
Spiritlands 
Comic Poems 
A Colomber in the House of Poesy 
Imagined Sons