I quite like Newbolt in a sort of tongue-in-cheek steampunk way. You've got to love that mindless comical flag-waving blinkered view of the world... so long as it is with your tongue firmly in your cheek. Anyone that treats it seriously or thinks that his work is anything other than doggerel is probably in trouble though!
And as for cricket poetry, do lyrics count? Back when I was young and stupid I would see 'Blyth Power' thirty-odd times a year, now I try to catch them once every few years. Lyrically they are amazing and so damn British with their folk-punk songs with references to history, steam engines and the holy (but deadly boring) sport of cricket - like this:
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And as for cricket poetry, do lyrics count? Back when I was young and stupid I would see 'Blyth Power' thirty-odd times a year, now I try to catch them once every few years. Lyrically they are amazing and so damn British with their folk-punk songs with references to history, steam engines and the holy (but deadly boring) sport of cricket - like this:
http://www.blythpower.co.uk/lyrics/Alnwick/better.htm
or this:
http://www.blythpower.co.uk/lyrics/Wicked/chevy.htm