Bøger af David Potter

Collected poems from puzzled adolescence through to forgetful old age

Poems recording the impact of advancing dementia and fraility on the author's mother and on the author himself.

A selection of short talks given by the author in country churches in Cambridgeshire over the past 20 years. The talks are usually based on the lectionary readings for the particular Sunday and draw on personal experience and understanding.

The Streak by David Potter is a book that tells the story of the longest unbeaten run in the history of Scottish football. The book focuses on the 62-game unbeaten run of Celtic Football Club, which began in November 1915 and ended in April 1917. The author provides a detailed account of each game during the streak, including the players involved, the tactics used, and the key moments that led to victory or draw. Potter also explores the historical context of the time period, including the impact of World War I on Scottish football and the social and political climate in Scotland during the early 20th century. The book features interviews with former players, coaches, and fans of Celtic, providing a unique perspective on the team's success and the impact it had on the community. Overall, The Streak is a comprehensive and engaging account of one of the most impressive runs in the history of football, and is a must-read for fans of Celtic and Scottish football.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Story of the events depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry

This is how I have heard The Psalms, these poems of praise and lament. The psalmist's cry for help and recognition, a nation's prayer of repentance and their call for justice. They cover the whole range of human emotions from joy to anger, from hope to despair. The Psalms may sit in the middle of the Old Testament but their language and themes permeate the whole of the Bible. They foretell the coming of the Messiah, they call for the forgiveness of sin, they praise God as creator and redeemer and recognise His priorities to care for the poor and hungry, to look after the immigrant and protect the widow and dispossessed. Their verses are quoted by Jesus and echoed by Paul. Unsurprisingly, they continue to be used in Jewish worship and the words and poetry of The Psalms is found in Christian liturgy, as well as being recited as Holy Scripture. The Psalms can be a challenge to read and to fully understand. They are full of emotion, and private anguish. These hymns or prayers set down the psalmist's spiritual and bodily concerns, usually in the context of the history of God's chosen people. The Psalms also provide us with unforgettable images of the glory and majesty of God's power and creation. Here we have the psalmist in conversation with God, often arguing and calling for his intervention to save the writer or to save Israel. At times, the psalmist sounds selfish, like a demanding child, calling on God for special attention, even when the psalmist acknowledges his own shortcomings. He pleads for God's help, he tells God what to do, he rails against his enemies, he generally feels sorry for himself. Elsewhere, the psalmist glorifies all that God has done, both in his power over creation but also in guiding and saving the people of Israel throughout their history. This is my take on the 150 poems that comprise the Psalms. By no means a faithful translation, rather an interpretation of other versions, put in my own voice. A poetic response to the call they make to our worship and prayer.

This collection of poems is a record of the sadness and guilt felt as the author watches his mother take the cruel descent into dementia and old age. 'Lost for Words' is a poet's observation of the long decline, as communication becomes more difficult, and the poignancy of happier days becomes more accute. An interesting study of the emotions of grief and guilt felt at such times.

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A suite of 30 poems looking at aspects of memory and more. Memory triggered by items found.; the power of memory and memorial; the inevitability of old age and its effects; the humour and tragedy of loosing memory; the loneliness of old age.

David Potter transports us back to Sunderland's past glories, from the 1890s onwards. Learn about club legends such as Ned Doig, Hugh 'Lalty' Wilson, Charlie Buchan, Raich Carter, Bobby Gurney, Ian Porterfield and Jim Montgomery, and relive the moments that did so much to enrich the lives of those who packed out Newcastle Road and Roker Park.

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Starting with the Roman army¿s first foray beyond its borders and ending with Hadrian¿s death (138 CE), David Potter¿s panorama of the early Empire recounts the wars, leaders and social transformations that lay the foundations of imperial success. As today¿s parallels reveal, the Romans have much to teach us about power, governance and leadership.

In this volume, David Potter provides a history of ancient sport from Archaic-period Greece to the early Byzantine Empire, and further explores the role sport has played throughout history.

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Described in atmospheric and evocative detail, here are 50 of the Bhoys' most glorious, epochal and thrilling games of all! Celtic's Greatest Games offers a terrace ticket back in time, revisiting historical highlights including the club's first match in 1898, Cup Final crackers, hard-fought derbies, title clinchers and glorious European nights.

Newcastle United are a team that really should do better. They have a football-mad city all to themselves and fans as numerous and passionate as you will find anywhere. Yet their recent record is mediocre at best and poor at worst, with every fan painfully aware that 1955 was the last time they won a major English trophy. But it wasn't always like that. In the Magpies' glory days of well over 100 years ago, they were considered the best team in the world. They won the English league three times in five years, the English cup once and had several near misses, while supplying many players for the England and Scotland national teams. In this fascinating book, David Potter recreates the atmosphere of 'the Toon' in those distant days when men like McWilliam, Veitch, Higgins and Shepherd walked tall. Above all, that great era is a potent reminder to the current generation of Newcastle fans that 'it doesn't need to be like this'.

The Scottish League Cup has been keenly contested for 75 years. Unsurprisingly, the big Glasgow clubs have won it the most, but Aberdeen, Hearts, Hibs, Dundee, Raith Rovers, Livingston and East Fife have also had their moments in the sun. This book pays homage to each one of the 75 seasons, with a detailed account of every final.

This is the story of Celtic's love affair with the Scottish Cup, a trophy that has formed part of the club's identity since 1889. Romance, drama and passion are all bound up in Celtic's annual quest for the cup, involving great players, from the Sandy McMahon era to the days of Scott Brown.

To the practical modern mind, the idea of divine prophecy is more ludicrous than sublime. Yet to our cultural forebears in ancient Greece and Rome, prophecy was anything but marginal; it was in fact the basic medium for recalling significant past events and expressing hopes for the future, and it offered assurance that divinities truly cared about mere mortals. Prophecy also served political ends, and it was often invoked to support or condemn an emperor's actions. In Prophets and Emperors, David Potter shows us how prophecy worked, how it could empower, and how the diverse inhabitants of the Roman Empire used it to make sense of their world. This is a fascinating account of prophecy as a social, religious, and political phenomenon. The various systems of prophecy--including sacred books, oracles, astrological readings, interpretation of dreams, the sayings of holy men and women--come into sharp relief. Potter explores the use of prophecy as a nieans of historical analysis and political communication, and he describes it in the context of the ancient city. Finally, he traces the reformation of the prophetic tradition under the influence of Christianity in the fourth century. Drawing on diverse evidence--from inscriptions and ancient prophetic books to Greek and Roman historians and the Bible--Potter has produced a study that will engage anyone interested in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean and in the history and politics of the Roman Empire.

The Celtic v Rangers clash in Glasgow is one of football's major events, attracting a huge TV audience worldwide. Author David Potter revels in the joy that a victory over the old rivals brings to the Celtic support, reliving some of the club's greatest ever derby-day triumphs from the 1890s right up to date. Here is an expert selection of 50 such legendary occasions, rich in detail and atmosphere, and all the topic of fervent discussion over the years. We hear of Jimmy Quinn's hat-trick in 1904, the astonishing Scottish Cup semi-final of 1925, the 7-1 Scottish League Cup Final of 1957, the 4-0 thrashing in the 1969 Scottish Cup Final, the 6-2 'Demolition Derby' of 2000, plus many landmark games of a more recent vintage. Celtic's greatest players - Henrik Larsson, Jimmy McGrory, Patsy Gallacher, Charlie Tully, Jimmy Johnstone, Billy McNeill and Scott Brown - appear frequently in these pages, as do many others who all played their part in what is traditionally the greatest party of them all, when Celtic beat Rangers!

The third edition of David Potter's lively history, which tells the extraordinary story of Rome from its origins, through the Republic and Empire, to the period of its decline and fall.