Boys Of Winter
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Studying for her MA in English and American literature the author was struck by the beauty and concision of a new language – that of pro football. This collection of tribute verses captures the punch and precision of its patois. The poems are "…a raid on the inarticulate – the thoughts under pressure of the proverbial dumb jocks of the game, many of whom…were very far from dumb."
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Boys Of Winter - Angela Patmore
Also by Angela Patmore
Fiction
Harrowing Hamlet
The Czar Of Dogdom
Verse
The Silent Songs Of Owen Parsnip
Doggerel
Non-Fiction
Challenging Depression And Despair
The Truth About Stress
Marje: The Guilt And The Gingerbread
Running Dialogue: A Coach’s Story (with Harry Wilson)
Murder In The Squash Court (with Jonah Barrington)
Giants Of Sumo
Leading From The Front (with Mike Gatting)
Playing On Their Nerves: The Sports Experiment
Your Natural Dog: A Guide To Breed And Health Care
Rescue Dogs And Their Second Lives
The Mongrel
Your Obedient Servant
FORWARD
Rugby: a game for hooligans, played by gentlemen. Soccer: a game for gentlemen, played by hooligans. American Football: a game of chess, played at high speed requiring a more than working knowledge of Pythagoras angles, at speed and distance.
American Football provides an amazing outlet for young men, and now women, to demonstrate their mental and physical skills at all levels and provides a safe family environment for all ages, sexes and races to enjoy the sport. The joy of this book of poems is that it provides an insight into both the participants and the constituent elements of this complex and satisfying game, from the skills of the players to the coaches, officials and administrators who make the sport a verbal and visual delight and such a colourful pageant. Perhaps even the NFL will forgive the fact that it had to be written by an English poet.
Lance L Cone
Undefeated Head Coach of the London Ravens,
Britain’s Number One Team (1984 to 1990)
Chairman of the British American Football Association (1987 to 2000)
Winner of two European National Championship titles (1989 and 1991)
INTRODUCTION
When I was an International Fulbright Scholar living in Williamsburg, Virginia way back in the 1970s, I was actually studying for my MA in English and American literature but I was struck by the beauty and concision of a new language I’d never come across before – that of pro football. I was surprised nobody had turned it into an art form. The game astounded me.
In this collection of tribute verses I have tried to capture the punch and precision of its patois without sacrificing simplicity to jargonism. The theme of all the poems is a raid on the inarticulate – the thoughts under pressure of the proverbial ‘dumb jocks’ of the game, many of whom I soon discovered were very far from dumb.
The verses attempt to express, with humour and sadness, the pain and fear and loneliness and anger of people who are considered by many to be little more than overpaid sides of beef, and incapable of finer feelings.
These are all word portraits of that most proud and unpitied American, the gladiator of our day.
Angela Patmore
CONTENTS
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