Everything to Play For: 99 Poems about Sport Sarajevo Roses my shadow on this un-lit

my shadow on this un-lit road

with a humour as black as the cupboard under the stairs

her work must now

McCallum questions how we form our identities and who shapes those identities for us

and from whose example he draws great inspiration

Everything to Play For: 99 Poems about Sport Sarajevo Roses my shadow on this un-litSometimes sport takes over Irish life: we meet up at the match everyone is going to, or we stay in touch by talking about sport. And sports the stuff of family lore the wrong turn at Ballybrit that led to Connemara instead of the Galway Races, the ex who came good with tickets, the All Ireland winner throwing an American football on the beach. The poems collected in this anthology know sport, and they respond to the way that sport in Ireland forms our