Poems on the Underground

After nearly thirty years and almost 500 poems, Poems on the Underground has become a familiar and welcome sight on London''s Tube, paying tribute to the magnificent tradition of English poetry, and to those who have contributed to its richness and diversity. In this beautiful paperback edition, poems old and new, familiar and unfamiliar explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, family, dreams, war, music and nature, and feature hundreds of poets including Owen Sheers, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, William Blake, D. H. Lawrence, Kathleen Raine, Roger McGough, Wilfred Owen, Wendy Cope and John Clare, among many others.>

Report

The most democratic artistic intervention of my lifetime Maev Kennedy Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Judith Benson Chernaik, Herbert Edited By, Various
• Assisted by: Gerard Benson (Editor), Judith Chernaik (Editor), Cicely Herbert (Editor)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.03.2015
• EAN: 9780141389547
• ISBN: 978-0-14-138954-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 155 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; London, Greater London, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Classic and pre-20th century poetry