Not Just A Game: Sporting Poems Hilmy Salem poet and reader alike about

poet and reader alike about the nature of creativity and the relationship between image

Güner Grass

and boatbuilder as well as blacksmithing

Mahmoud Abdel Ghani: Poem

and Denys Johnson Davies reviews David Tresilian’s A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature

Not Just A Game: Sporting Poems Hilmy Salem poet and reader alike aboutFrom the first length to the final frame, the egg and spoon race to the Cup Final, from Jack Hobbs to Brian Clough, from Centre Court to the Great North Run, Not Just a Game captures the tension and the laughter, the pain and the pleasure, and the blood, sweat and tears. As Jane Austen put it in Pride and Prejudice, For what do we live but to make sport? Not Just a Game is a unique archive of modern British sporting life angling, boxing, canoeing,