#94: ‘Not Just A Game – Sporting Poetry’ edited by Andy Croft and Sue Dymoke

‘Not Just A Game’ is an anthology of sporting poems, collected and edited by Andy Croft and Sue Dymoke, and published by Five Leaves press in 2006.

I was questioning whether to post about this book as there are only three boxing-related poems, by two authors, in a collection with 200+ pages. However, I do feel like these poems, by George Jowett and Vernon Scannell, are unlikely to appear in many other anthologies, so it’s definitely worth including them in this wider archive. I think it’s fair to assume that many readers interested in poems about boxing will be keen to read poems about other sports.

Also, the reason I bought this book is because I’ve been wanting to read Scannell’s poetry and prose, and I got this collection in the same order in which I picked up his novel ‘The Ring of Truth’, which will appear on this blog at some point over the summer.