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PUBLISHER: Shearsman Books

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781848616134

RRP: £6.50

PAGES: 36

PUBLICATION DATE:
June 22, 2018

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Jubilate Messi

Steve Ely

I’ve played, watched and loved football all my life. Along with birds and birding it is my most enduring passion. So I thought I’d write about it. My original intention was to write a poetic history of football, from the creation to the present day. I started fluently, but one thing and another got in the way and the footballing Muse abandoned me after about twenty poems. The poems in this chapbook are those of the original twenty that made it through the selection process and got into the first eleven. Plus a sub. Messi comes last, but it is definitely not him. (Steve Ely)

Steve Ely

Steve Ely has written several books of poetry, most recently Zi-Zi Taah Taah Taah, Bloody, Proud and Murderous Men, Adulterers and Enemies of God and Incendium Amoris. Between 1982 and 2008 he played up front for South Elmsall Town, South Kirkby Colliery, Travellers F.C., the Top House and the Nag’s Head, scoring many beautiful goals.

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