The Run-In Your Poems + Football Poetry Workshops
The Run-In Your Poems + Football Poetry Workshops
1 THE RUN IN- TITLES SURVIVAL & UPS DOWNS- POEMS
2 WORLD CUP / FOOTBALL POETRY Workshops+Dates 2010
3 INNER GOAL the poetry of football by Crispin Thomas
THE RUN IN – YOUR END OF SEASON POEMS
Survival? Going Up? Going Down? The Title or just middling it!
April poems from Rochdale to Coventry, Newcastle to Chelsea, Burnley to West Brom , Arsenal to Liverpool, Boro to Forest Green . West Ham to Wigan and Fulham to Coventry..More please…
07 May Just the who of us Clik the mouse
07 May The Votes Are In
Crispin Thomas
07 May One For Sorrow Part Five jim dolbear
03 May Seasonal Blues – Liverpool 0-2 Chelsea
Emdad Rahman
03 May O Ye An’ Me Of Little Faith! kevin raymond
27 Apr Going Up -Yes..Staying Up???? John Oliver
26 Apr Conference Houdinis Forest Fire
Crispin Thomas
20 Apr Boredom kevin halls
19 Apr Hammers Kopped – Liverpool 3-0 West Ham Emdad Rahman
18 Apr The End 09/10 non humphries
18 Apr We Dared To Dream Alan McKean
17 Apr Out-played, Out-muscled , Out-passed Bard Of Burnley
15 Apr Sitting on my own next season?
kevin halls
15 Apr A Shallow Victory Or What? kevin raymond
13 Apr Brum deal- Birmingham 0-0 Liverpool Emdad Rahman
13 Apr North London Derby Chris
Murray
11 Apr Chelsea Double Haiku 2 Tony Lewis-Jones
10 Apr Promotion Guaranteed Andrew Detheridge
07 Apr Yo-Yo Club Andrew Detheridge
06 Apr Bouncebackability John Oliver
29 Mar Title Challenge Over? non humphries
18 Mar Boro’s Play-off DreamsKhadim Hussain
2 WORLD CUP & FOOTBALL POETRY WORKSHOPS & DATES 2010
Hi – We stilll have gaps for World Cup & Football/Sport Poetry Workshops .Sessions are broadened to cover all sports to be all inclusive for students. We are now taking bookings for workshops from May onwards with sessions also still available for National Poetry Day in October . Contact Crispin Thomas- The Football Poets or phone 01453 757376 & 07837 798463
W=Workshops G=Gig
March ’10
1 HAMSTEAD Library (am)& GT.BARR Library(pm) (W)
2 CRADELY HEATH Library(am) ROUNDS GREEN Library(pm)(W)
April
29 SANDWELL School (W)
May ’10
13 HADLEIGH.Suffolk. Hadleigh High School. Reading Week, (W)
June ’10
19 RODBOROUGH World Cup Fete (G)
26 GLASTONBURY Festival Fluffy Rock Café. Afternoon. (G)
July ’10
1 FELTHAM Hill School Year 4 (W)
2 FELTHAM Hill School Year 5 (W)
SOME WORKSHOP LINKS
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‘FOOTBALL STUFF’ Crispin Thomas BBC Video Nation Poem / Rap with Casio and ball on the pitch at Forest Green Rovers FC.
EVERTON FC ‘ Making A Difference’ Workshop Review Crispin Thomas Session at Everton FC Extra Time Study Support Centre
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INNER GOAL on Amazon Crispin Thomas the poetry of football..a journey in rhyme (Illustrated/Paperback)
Published by Football Poets Books ISBN 9780955 737602 £8.09
“Poems in the street, the ground and the heart, poetry with balls!”
Michael Foreman
“One of the pioneers of football poetry. Who ate all the pioneers”?”
Attila The Stockbroker
BOOK NOTES
“A rhythmic feast for football lovers everywhere both young and old. From rattles and rosettes to women’s football and the trenches, fantasy salaries and racism to mobile phones for goalposts. Spanning fifty years of watching and ten years of writing , Inner Goal is an affectionate and perceptive nod to the People’s Game in verse. A long-overdue and illustrated hard-copy paperback debut from football’s maverick performance poet featuring 75 poems, 65 haikus and hand-drawn illustrations from the author.
SHOPS:
National Football Museum, Preston Tel 01772 908442
Stroud Bookshop, 23 High Street, Stroud 01453 756646
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About This Site
Welcome to Football Poets -- a club for all football poets, lovers of football and lovers of (alternative) poetry. Discover poets in every league from respected internationals at the top of their game to young hopefuls in the school playground.
Publish your football poems here and then discuss them with your team mates and fans. We're archived by The British Library, so your masterpieces are in the safe hands of a world-class keeper. What a result!
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Crispin’s Corner
In Memoriam
Kick It Out & Christmas Truce
Latest Comments
24th September 2023 at 5:14 pm
Very accurate indeed!
Palace home for me is always a tough journey as well. From the wilds of west London to Selhurst is a random journey into the unknown.
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20th September 2023 at 1:37 pm
Lovely stuff for one of the best.
We love him to death down at the Palace.
I’ll post my Roy poem a bit later. You’ve inspired me to finish it.
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19th September 2023 at 5:06 pm
I’d like to think some of my scarves might get passed down the generations, but can’t see some of the “quality merchandise” I have making much past my son’s generation. They’ll fall apart before he even has kids, I reckon!
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7th September 2023 at 2:43 pm
Very true Crispin. Thanks!
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3rd September 2023 at 6:55 pm
Play Up Pompey indeed Richard .
My first ever proper game when i was 10 was Chelsea 7-4 Pompey on Xmas morning 1959, Greavesie got 4.
First visited Fratton Park with Chelsea (2-2) and stood among loads of sailors back in the old Second Dvision early 60s . That’s when I first heard the Pompey Chimes..
Last visited in the mid 2000s to run a football poetry workshop on racism with local young students in the Study Centre you had then at the time.
Had a great chat with some of your fans when you came here to Forest Green last season…
best wishes
Crispin
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1st September 2023 at 7:17 pm
Cliché heaven or hell..we get it all
Welcome to Football Poets John
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28th August 2023 at 10:54 am
Thanks Crispin – noted re the boxer! Never know, perhaps we’ll get Forest Green in the cup… or Chelsea!
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27th August 2023 at 4:47 pm
Hey Rowan
Tough line up of opening fixtures but werlcome to the National League and to Football Poets.
I’ve often passed your ground but never actually been.
Had to remove the boxert poem , sorry ….only poems about football, though i did read your tenuous link!
best wishes
Crispin -Editor
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6th August 2023 at 3:46 pm
Don’t worry Apollo, I have examined the evidence on YouTube – he looks great, the real deal!
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7th July 2023 at 5:26 pm
Let’s Hope for your sake Denys, that he doesn’t turn out to be from La-la-Land!
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