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Catching the Light

A New Anthology of Cricket Poetry

AvNicholas Hogg,Tim Beard

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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‘Cricket is battle and service and sport and art’ says Douglas Jardine as he dreams up brutal tactics tobeat the Australians in the 1930s. It’s also about class and race, language and reflection, it’s timelessand it’s ‘just a game’. It’s Empire and sunset, death and renewal, children and long-ago memories. Sometimes, it’s just dust and sunburn.The fractured dreams of wide-eyed children feature alongside the exploded rhythms of a day spent not watching but feeling the game, measured and deliberate and not always under control. The emotional range of cricket’s living theatre is fully explored as ordinary actions are transformed into myth and back again. The rhythms of play are insisted upon and exploded.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-04-24
Mått:113 x 162 x 29 mm
Vikt:316 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Fairfield Books
ISBN:9781915237767

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Major poets like Ted Hughes, Simon Armitage and Sean O’Brien have all written poems that use cricketas metaphor for – for different things. Suspended moments, revenge, class – cricket as a vehicle.Sebastian Faulks has provided his first ever published poem, a haiku, full of longing. John Agard, the mostCaribbean of poets, has several in this anthology – Give the ball to the Poet closes the collection. Poems fromIndia, including work by Arundhathi Subramaniam, emerge through the lens of the status of the Englishlanguage in that literary culture.We’ve moved on from nostalgia to a poetic world that is vibrant with inventive language, politically engaged and aware of the flaws and triumphs of our fellows. Brand new poemsfrom Tim Key and Ian McMillan also feature.About the editorsNicholas Hogg is a prize-winning poet and novelist who used to be a fast bowler. His work brings anenergetic, sometimes ferocious perspective. Nicholas is co-founder of the revived Authors XI, a teamalso featuring Tim Beard, a poet who reads a lot of detective fiction.