Poems on the Underground Archive Donated
"Hundreds of posters and memorabilia items from a public art project—Poems On The Underground—have been donated to Cambridge University Library. The scheme began in 1986 with posters displayed across London's Tube network, featuring the words of literary greats. Among the archive is a letter from the late poet Philip Larkin, who died before he could see his own words displayed in print on the Tube. The university said the archive was now available to anyone by consultation."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Katie Peterson on Other Arts
"I find this to be common with poems, which are like my favorite kind of children – give them a job to do, and they'd rather do anything else. But give them nothing to do, and they hate you. A poem ends up being equal parts what you must do and what you want to do, but in a way, with a proportion, inhabiting a mood you can't predict. A map offers a perfect occasion for this, since, like a family portrait, what it leaves in points towards what it leaves out. The poem became about everything the map couldn't record." |
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