Not Just A Game: Sporting Poems Maram al-Masri They write with brutal candour

They write with brutal candour about the heart of human fragility

voices both irreverent and responsible

Yorgos Ioannou

Originally from North Yorkshire

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Not Just A Game: Sporting Poems Maram al-Masri They write with brutal candourFrom 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,