POETRY IN MOTION: On The Road meets two writers capturing the beauty of Scottish football in verse … from Archie Gemmill’s wonder goal against Holland to a First World War hero’s appearance in the Junior Cup final!

POETRY IN MOTION: On The Road meets two writers capturing the beauty of Scottish football in verse … from Archie Gemmill’s wonder goal against Holland to a First World War hero’s appearance in the Junior Cup final!

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POETRY IN MOTION: On The Road meets two writers capturing the beauty of Scottish football in verse … from Archie Gemmill’s wonder goal against Holland to a First World War hero’s appearance in the Junior Cup final!

There  is both a rhyme and reason behind the torrent of words that form the modern Scottish fitba’ poetry oeuvre, as we never tire of declaiming in the salons of Saracen Street.

It is this. There is now a generation of poets who instinctively know the importance of the national game. They are not afraid to reclaim it from memory.

Two newly published collections spin tales of personal experience, famous history and national dismay into works which state firmly that football is part of our…



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