Best Poems on the Underground - Couverture souple

Benson, Gerard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0753827255 ISBN 13 : 9780753827253

Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2010

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Three compilers who alone determine the selection of poems:
Judith Chernaik ' American academic and from Brooklyn, now a London resident. Gerard Benson ' widely published professional poet, gives regular poetry performances, an original Barrow Poet, lives in Bradford.
Cicely Herbert ' widely published, London resident, also a Barrow Poet.

EDITOR BIOGRAPHY:
Three compilers who alone determine the selection of poems:
Judith Chernaik ' American academic from Brooklyn, now a London resident.
Gerard Benson ' widely published professional poet, gives regular poetry performances, lives in Bradford.
Cicely Herbert ' widely published, London resident, also professional poet.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0753827255
• ISBN 13: 9780753827253
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Éditeur: Chernaik Judith, Benson Gerard, Herbert Cicely
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible