New Poems on the Underground

Various

ISBN 10: 0304367966 / ISBN 13: 9780304367962

Edité par Cassell Reference, 2004

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: New Poems on the Underground
• Éditeur: Cassell Reference
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0304367966
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780304367962
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Poids: 160 grammes

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Synopsis

Those famous poem Tube cards first appeared on the London Underground in 1986, a brave and instantly successful experiment in introducing poetry to an unexpecting audience in a public place. The changing display of poems, five or so every four months, were soon a part of the London scene and did much to spark a new interest in poetry. They appeared in book form in 1991; Poems on the Underground is now in its Tenth Edition. This new collection of 70 or so poems brings the Tenth up to date, with all the poems displayed on the Underground through 2002, 2003 and 2004. Once again, it's an eclectic mix of old and new, familiar and unknown. There are poems of every hue and tone imaginable, from around the world, in English and other languages, all jostling in comfortable juxtaposition for the readers' attention. Poets include John Donne, Louis MacNeice, Lotte Kramer, John Clare, Isaac Rosenberg, Moniza Alvi, Ernest Dawson, Langston Hughes, Yeats, Coleridge, Byron, Ken Smith, Shakespeare, Blake, Ruth Fainlight, Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Jennings and that prolific provider of the more ribald of ancient verse, Anonymous. New Poems on the Underground will be designed and produced to the same standard as the hardback anthology, and printed in two colours throughout.

À propos de l'auteur

Gerard Benson is a writer, teacher and performer, and a member of the Barrow Poets. He has several anthologies to his name and spent a year as Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust. Judith Chernaik is an American novelist and academic who has lectured at British, American and European universities: she has lived in London for thirty years. Cicely Herbert is, like Gerard, a member of the Barrow Poets, and has written several performance pieces with music by Jim Parker. 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.