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.
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Breathe and Be 
Out of Bounds 
Opposite 
Nostalgia for Death: Poetry / Hieroglyphs of Desire: A Critical Study of Villaurrutia 
Tokens for the Foundlings 
The Drug of Art 
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes 
Bedouin Of The London Evening: Collected Poems 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
And You, Helen