TALES FROM THE UNIVERSE No 11 - This week's newsletter: single malt; origin of 'hoary chestnut'; sun forever; exclusive poem - 'and the wine'; PS: Create One Thing Immortal...
1. Part 12 of BECAUSE THEY CAN PLAY F’CKING GOOD FOOTBALL is coming:
Cover: Paradisio Publishing
On Wednesday the next installment of my new Erik ten Hag book is published - as usual a sample of this is readable for free, the rest for subscribers at £4.99 a-month, the story coming in weekly chapters.
In part 12…
‘having to back De Gea - again’
‘we cannot be lambs for Wolves to slaughter’
‘the FOUR chapters of The Manager’
PLUS: copious other intrigue in the tale of Erik ten Hag’s first term as Manchester United manager.
2. Tune
When the planets visit…
Pic: Paradisio Publishing
listen to this…
3. It is all art, baby
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‘animals are out there too’
4. Poem: and the wine
Pic: Paradisio Publishing...
and the wine
and the wine
was flowers
in the heart
and the barbecue
sizzled and roasted
and the sun smudged
the edges of where
i headed
- Goa, India, summer '97,
though this afternoon
it was vino of the white hue,
charred chicken,
smoke spiralling,
Notting Hill Carnival
out the yard,
on the street,
where sound is the
music of vibrating life
that never ends
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