Way More Than Luck Wilkinson BenPaperback
From the thumping heartbeat of the distance runner to the roar of soccer stadiums across the decades, Ben Wilkinson's debut poetry collection, Way More Than Luck, confronts the struggles and passions…
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From the thumping heartbeat of the distance runner to the roar of soccer stadiums across the decades, Ben Wilkinson's debut poetry collection, Way More Than Luck, confronts the struggles and passions that come to shape a life. Beginning with an unflinching interrogation of experiences of clinical depression and the redemptive power of art and running, the collection centres on a series of vivid character portraits, giving life to the legends of the UK's Liverpool Football Club. By turns frank, comic, sinister and meditative - 'the trouble with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head' - these poems uncover the beautiful game's magic and absurdity, hopes and disappointments, as striking metaphors for our everyday dramas. Elsewhere there are tender love poems, political satire and strange dream worlds, in an urgently lyrical book of poems that take many forms and modes of