An Athletics Compendium

L 272 - 280 212 Selected poems and songs; edited bDyavid Groves. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic, 1986. xxxiii, 232p; music At headof title:The Association for ScottishLiteraryStudies ISBN; 0-7073-0471-7 BL: YC.1987.a.9676 Includes Hogg's 'Thecutting o' my hair' in which the poet recalls winningraces at 5t Boswell's and other local fairs. 273 Sports poems/ compiled by John Foster. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. 16p; illus; pbk (Jackdaws poetry) ISBN; 0-19-916339-1 BL; YK.1991.a.8268 Includes 'Sports day' by Theresa Heine and 'The fastest runner' by Irene Yates. For children. 274 Does Wtrouble you?: abook of rhyming poem/s edited by Gerard Benson; illustrated Abylison Forsythe. London: Viking, 1994. 159p; illus ISBN; 0-670-85082-9 BL;YK.1994.a.18024 Includes 'Tidying up' by Simon Pitt, about a boy's thoughts as he puts away athletic gear. For children. 275 Crossing boundaries: an international anthology of women's experiences in sport / Susan J. Bandy, Anne S. Darden, editors. Leeds: Human Kinetics, 1999. xvi, 311p; illus; pbk ISBN; 0-7360-0088-7 BL; YC.2000.a.7347 Poems include: 'The sprinters' by Lillian Morrison; 'Women's tug of war at Lough Arrow' by Tess Gallagher; 'Marathoner' by Stephanie Plotin; 'Punning' by Leslie Ullman; 'Punner resumes training after an injury' and 'Punner at twilight' by Grace Butcher; 'Ped runner' by Diane Wakoski; 'Punning with Helena' by Theresa W.Miller; 'Morning athletes' Mbyarge Piercy; 'Women who run' by Laurel Starkey; 'Punning' by Ellen E. Moore; 'Amateur athletic meeting' by Elisabeth Smither; 'The runner' by Erin Moure; 'Muscle like metaphor pulls thin and tough' by Vivian Jokl. Prose includes 'Arunning girl: fragments moyf body history' by Ulla Kosonen; 'Hermarathon' bJyenifer Levina; nd 'Breaking the speerdecord' by CristinaPeri Possi. 276 Poems in themodern vein/ edited bHy enry Parker. London: Oddball, 2000. 64p; pbk A general anthology opf oems with asporting theme. Plays Benfield,Derek 277 Running riot: a farcical comedy thinree acts. London: Evans, 1958. 95p; illus BL;W.P.13182/101 A farce with background music in which husband, fleeing wife, is mistaken for an Olympic runner and involved in a spy plot. Bower,Margaret 278 Triad 66:three plays for women. Macclesfield: New Playwrights' Network, 1988? 29, 23, 24p; 1 plan; pbk Contents:Picturesat an exhibition;Runningpast;What is to becomeofMama? ISBN; 0-86319-138-X BL; YC.1988.a.13266 'Punning past' is oane-act play in which four women are reunited twenty-eight years after winning Olympic gold medals as Britain's sprint relay team. Bumand, Sir FrancisCowley 279 Sporting intelligence extraordinary!:match is arranged to come off athe Royal Olympic Theatre ... between the Unknown andthe Seneca Indian, Deerfoot: a farce, in one act. London: 1862. 16p; pbk (Lacy's acting edition; vol. 53, no. 789) BL; 2304.e.27 First performed at Poyal Olympic Theatre, 16 December \b < o\. Erba, Hdoardo 280 Marathon / Englisvhersion by Colin Teevan. London: Oberon, 1999. 60p; pbk Translationof:Maratonadi New ) ork. Milan: Kicordt, 1994 ISBN; 1-84002-139-X Steve andMark, two runners intendingto compete in the New York Marathon, carry on a dialogue whilst training atighnt. The play wafsirst produced Itinaly in 1993. and thiEsnglish version was stagedin London six years later. [ 177 ]