All Black Poem on Tuesday Poem this week

All Blacks and poetry - what could they have in common? Robert J Pope. This week's guest editor at Tuesday Poem is Mark Pirie, who wrote the cricket anthology A Tingling Catch, and now is the editor of a collection of Pope's poetry King Willow, Selected Poems. 

The poem he selected for Tuesday Poem is called The All Blacks. And it begins...

Sound, trumpet and drum,

For the All Blacks have come,

   Bowed down ‘neath their burden of glory;

They have put in the shade

Old Achilles, and laid

   On the shelf all the heroes of story.

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