Flintoff mission to miss thermos bumble lee’s ponting skier caught out agnew antipodes…
….so what is the opposite of inside out? Outside in?? No. Right way round, of course.
Today’s cricket front-pager in The Sprats Grauniad is Freddie missing the bus to visit Ypres last weekend. (If you want to look at cricket, poetry and war, try [...]
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month we commemorate those lost in two world wars, the first of which was the war to end all wars. Poets write about war. Homer’s Iliad is the story of Troy, the Trojan Horse, Paris, Achilles, and Helen the fairest of them all. Perhaps [...]
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Hi, I’m David Fine, npower Ashes poet in residence 2009. For every day’s play I’ll write a poem, which will appear here. That’s how it worked in 2006/7 in Australia, funded by www.artscouncil.org.uk This year you’ll see my notebook live….. the lines in the scoreboard are delivered in real time from http://twitter.com/ashespoetry
Charles Monkhouse said about a milestone between Middleton-by-Youlgreave and Friden in the Peak District, Derbyshire UK ‘If the sun’s right, you can just catch it.’
In November 2005 at Faisalabad during the Second Test twist England and Pakistan, a calor gas barbeque exploded. Everyone turned, except Shahid Afridi….
It must have felt great to hold the trophy aloft at the home of cricket in front of a pretty full house – well done, England’s women, and well done, the England and Wales Cricket Board for having the vision to hold the men’s and women’s finals on the same day.
One Day We Will Lose
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month we commemorate those lost in two world wars, the first of which was the war to end all wars. Poets write about war. Homer’s Iliad is the story of Troy, the Trojan Horse, Paris, Achilles, and Helen the fairest [...]
Chance To Rhyme
A Kwik Guide How to Write A Half-Way Decent Ashes Song
The Barmy Army don’t just support England at Test Matches. They play cricket – including thrashing their Aussie equivalents The Fanatics on the eve of the First Test at Brisbane – support Chance To Shine to enable more youngsters to join in and [...]
Grace Road, England vs India 1st Test 2006
first crack at writing at a match – about 1500 words
From Grace Road To Ikea.
England vs India 1st Women’s Test, 3rd Day’s Play.
Grace Road Leicester Thursday 10th August
Never been to Grace Road before. Virgin county venues in the mind’s eye are always places of faded grandeur – tall pavilions, [...]
