Way More Than Luck

£9.99

Ben Wilkinson

‘Way More Than Luck’ is the eagerly-awaited poetry collection from noted young critic and author Ben Wilkinson. At the heart of the book is a series of poems inspired by a lifelong devotion to Liverpool Football Club. We meet former players, coaches and re-live moments of both stoic despair and wild joy. Vivid themes are adroitly enacted in poetic forms.

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From the thumping heartbeat of the distance runner to the roar of football terraces across the decades, Ben Wilkinson’s debut confronts the struggles and passions that come to shape a life. Beginning with an interrogation of experiences of clinical depression and the redemptive power of art and running, the collection centres on a series of vivid character portraits, giving life to some of football’s legends. By turns frank, comic, sinister and meditative – ‘the trouble with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head’ – these poems uncover the beautiful game’s magic and absurdity, hopes and disappointments, as striking metaphors for our everyday dramas. Elsewhere there are tender love poems, political satire and strange dream worlds, in an urgently lyrical book of poems that take many forms and modes of address: pantoum, sonnet, sestina; epistle, confession, dramatic monologue. All are united by a desire to speak with searching clarity about matters of the heart. Way More Than Luck is a book that shows how pain often comes to define our happiness; how we keep on in a world of chance, uncertainty and change.

Additional information

Weight 86 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.8 × 0.5 cm
Author

Publisher

Seren

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

64

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K