Score!

by Wardle, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9781852247065
• ISBN10: 1852247061
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-15
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

Sarah Wardle is poet-in-residence with Tottenham Hotspur FC. Her Score! is a commentary on contemporary culture, shooting at the heart of consciousness, family, sport, the female voice and Darwinian science.

Author Biography

Sarah Wardle lectures at Middlesex University and reviews poetry for the Observer.

Table of Contents

St George's Eve	p. 9
In Memoriam Bill Nicholson
In Memoriam Bill Nicholson	p. 11
In the Bill Nicholson Suite	p. 12
Injury Room	p. 13
Defoe	p. 14
Keane	p. 15
Audere Est Facere	p. 16
Tottenham Hotspur 1, Blackburn Rovers 0	p. 17
Captains	p. 18
Late News	p. 19
Goal	p. 20
In Memoriam Sidney Wells	p. 21
Against Metaphor	p. 22
Kabul	p. 24
By Hart	p. 25
At White Hart Lane	p. 26
X Poems
Easter X	p. 27
To an Ex-OUCA President	p. 32
Ex-Prospective	p. 34
X: A Poetry Political Broadcast	p. 36
Sheet Music
Independence Day Dawn	p. 46
Footprints	p. 47
Hackney Downs	p. 48
After London	p. 49
Sheet Music	p. 50
Baggage	p. 51
English Civil War	p. 52
Premonition	p. 53
Breakthrough	p. 54
Noli Me Tangere	p. 55
Sarah Malcolm in Prison	p. 56
Hymn to Enlightenment	p. 57
Balance Sheet	p. 58
Emily's Voice	p. 59
Indian Summer	p. 60
Constance Ethelfleda	p. 61
Frederick Maclean Wardle	p. 62
Wards	p. 63
Pacific Storm	p. 64
Sea Views	p. 65
Covenant	p. 66
Finding Space for Time	p. 67
Schrodinger's Cat	p. 68
The Female Gaze	p. 69
Elegy	p. 70
Betterton Street	p. 71
Maybe It's Because	p. 72
New Year with Nelson	p. 74
Under the Wave	p. 75
Good Friday	p. 76
May Sunday	p. 77
On Byron Ward	p. 78
Looking Back	p. 79
Messenger	p. 80
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Excerpts

"Sarah Wardle is poet-in-residence with Tottenham Hotspur FC. Her Score! is a commentary on contemporary culture, shooting at the heart of consciousness, family, sport, the female voice and Darwinian science."--BOOK JACKET.