Poems on the Underground
Judith Chernaik · Gerard Benson · Cicely Herbert
Nov 2012 · Penguin UK
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About this ebook
This wonderful new edition of Poems on the Underground is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013. Here 230 poems old and new, romantic, comic and sublime explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music and the seasons, and feature poets from Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy and Wendy Cope, including Chaucer and Shakespeare, Milton, Blake and Shelley, Whitman and Dickinson, Yeats and Auden, Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott and a host of younger poets. It includes a new foreword and over two dozen poems not included in previous anthologies.
About the author
Gerard Benson was born in London, England on April 9, 1931. For two years, he was an intelligence coder in Gibraltar for the Royal Navy. He taught voice production, diction, and verse-speaking at the Central School for Speech and Drama for 20 years. He published 10 volumes of poems and poetry collections for children including The Magnificent Callisto, Evidence of Elephants, and To Catch an Elephant. He also edited several poetry collections including This Poem Doesn't Rhyme. He died on April 28, 2014 at the age of 83. An autobiography, Memoirs of a Jobbing Poet, will be published after his death.
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