Not Just A Game: Sporting Poems Hilmy Salem Clare Brown – author of

Clare Brown – author of The Creation Myths

and boatbuilder as well as blacksmithing

translated by Catherine Cobham

He trained as a classical singer but grew up in jazz

translated by Julian Farmer

Not Just A Game: Sporting Poems Hilmy Salem Clare Brown – author ofFrom 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,