Catching the Light : A New Anthology of Cricket Poetry

`Cricket is battle and service and sport and art' says�Douglas Jardine as he dreams up brutal tactics tobeat the Australians in the 1930s. It's also about�class and race, language and reflection, it's timelessand it's `just a game'. It's Empire and sunset, death�and renewal, children and long-ago memories.�Sometimes, it's just dust and sunburn. The fractured dreams of wide-eyed children feature�alongside the exploded rhythms of a day spent�not watching but feeling the game, measured and deliberate and not always under control. The�emotional range of cricket's living theatre is fully�explored as ordinary actions are transformed into myth and back again. The rhythms of play are�insisted upon and exploded.