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World Cup poetry: lines for the beautiful game
Poet Ian McMillan pens a poem to mark the World Cup played across America, Mexico and Canada, with the lines on the pitch inspiring his verse.
Describing the joy (and heartache) of football is the job of commentators at this summer's FIFA World Cup in America, Canada and Mexico. In the Studio hears how the loyalties of California's poet laureate Lee Herrick are divided between the USA and his birth country, Korea, while UK poet Ian McMillan finds inspiration for a new poem in the lines on the pitch.
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