Best Poems on the Underground - Hardcover
The now familiar poem posters first appeared in London's tube and underground trains in 1986. The idea was simple enough: why not convert the empty advertising space above the passenger's heads into a simple celebration of the poetry that has underscored English literature for a thousand years or more? The poems soon caught the public's imagination. Here on the trains there was at last something different, words to soothe, inspire, move, charm, surprise, arouse, even occasionally to shock, but never to sell. The program grew, and attracted international attention, so that now there are similar programs of public poetry on transport systems around the world, from New York to Shanghai, including Dublin, Paris, Athens, Stuttgart, St. Petersburg, Moscow, San Francisco, and Barcelona. This latest anthology brings together the best of all of them in a single volume. You can turn the pages and find limericks, great works of romantic poetry, ancient Gallic texts, Spike Milligan nesting alongside Dylan Thomas. As a journey of literary discovery, old favorites alongside the new, this much travelled collection of exceptional poetry has no equal. Forget the literary canon—here is the canon of human life.
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Gerard Benson is a widely published professional poet who gives regular poetry performances. Judith Chernaik is an American academic now living in London. Cicely Herbert is another widely published Barrow poet living in London.
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'The perfect anthology to while away a tedious Tube journey' -- Brandon Robshaw INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'takes the reader on a curious emotional journey from page to page' BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH 'Equally enjoyable at home as on the way to work' CATHOLIC HERALD
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- PublisherOrion Publishing
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0297859072
- ISBN 13 9780297859079
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
- EditorHerbert Cicely
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