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Six (pamphlet)

Zaffar Kunial

A pamphlet of cricket poems to coincide with Zaffar Kunial’s residency at the Oval, as part of the Places of Poetry project.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571358823
Date Published
05.09.2019
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Summary

I knew it was the beginning of something.
My first match. History in the making –
the way history turns in the air like a coin –

Cricket was a major part of the poet Zaffar Kunial’s childhood when growing up near the Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham. This pamphlet gathers six of his new poems on the subject, along with a series of previously published ‘Extras’. Whether capturing legends of the sport, such as Imran Khan captaining his first Test match, or a shy encounter with Brian Johnston; the poet’s boyish ambitions of becoming a professional player; experimenting with time in an elliptical sequence on hours at the Oval; or the timeless still point of a hit ball – Six is a collection for lovers of poetry and cricket alike.

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Zaffar Kunial lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, and was born in Birmingham. His debut collection, Us, was shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the T. S. Eliot Prize. England’s Green, his latest collection, has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Ondaatje Prize.

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