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 
Laboratorio 
This Is Yarrow 
Placebo Effects : Poems 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
States of Happiness 
The Moon Before Morning 
The Silvering 
Soemps 
Counting Backwards 
Jinx 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Strong in the Rain 
Breathe and Be 
Dog Poems 
Angela 
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
The Handle of the Door 
Opposite 
The Tamarit Poems 
Being Alive 
Luck Is the Hook 
And You, Helen