16 APRIL 1983, Page 21

Hundred metres

Sir: I have been commissioned by Junction Books to edit an anthology of athletic verse: The Poetry of Motion. It will hopefully represent all sports, from soccer to snooker and from cricket to croquet. As well as including classics I'd like to consider new pOems and hereby invite your readers to send to me (with sae) any verse they have produced in honour (or otherwise) of spor- ting occasions and/or characters.

Alan Bold

Balbirnie Burns East Cottage, Glenrothes, Fife