Best Poems on the Underground

Author(s): Gerard Benson and others

Poetry

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. 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 favourites alongside the new, this much travelled collection of exceptional poetry has no equal.

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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

General Fields

  • : 9780753827253
  • : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
  • : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • : September 2010
  • : December 2010
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Gerard Benson and others
  • : 352