London: Poetry of Place: A Collection of Poetry of Place - Softcover

Barnaby Rogerson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903651034 ISBN 13: 9781903651032

Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

This is the first book in a new series of pocket-sized poetry books for travelers and poetry lovers who seek inspiration while on a bus, subway train, or taxi, or while waiting for a museum to open. Here is the poetry of London, from the up-beat rap-poetry of Benjamin Zephaniah to Wordsworth's dawn sigh. From the catchpenny verses of Oranges and Lemons and London Bridge is Falling Down, to the ecstatic visions of Keats, Milton, and Blake. From the first lines of Anglo-Saxon verse to lines retrieved from a bar last year. It's a collection full of irony, delight, and personal grief. Some other poets included are Shakespeare. T.S. Eliot, Alan Jenkins, John Betjeman, Bacon, Wilde, and Blake.

About this title

Review:

A breastpocket volume, I shall have it to hand wherever I go in town. --Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times

Independent on Sunday:

the range and oddity of the anthology gives a sense of the pressure of history welling up underneath London's pavements.

About this edition

• Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1903651034
• ISBN 13: 9781903651032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Barnaby Rogerson