Poems on the Underground
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Poems on the Underground is a project, started in 1986, to bring poetry to a wider audience by displaying short poems on trains across the London Underground. Poems on display are rotated three times
Cover art for the tenth edition of the Poems on the Underground anthology
Imtiaz Dharker, one of the project's three current editors
"Noche de Lluvia, San Salvador," by Aracelis Girmay, displayed at Times Square–42nd Street station as part of the Poetry in Motion project in 2012.
Philip Larkin
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Philip Arthur Larkin was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill and A Girl in Winter. He came to promin
Poems on the Underground
…space and designing and printing the posters. While the application was under consideration she was contacted by Claire Tomalin, who told her that Philip Larkin - on the committee reviewing the grants - was concerned that the project was "too left-wing", and suggested Chernaik write to him to clarify that the…
Larkin's parents' former Radford council house overlooking a small spinney, once their garden (photo 2008)
This second-floor flat overlooking Pearson Park in Hull was Larkin's rented accommodation from 1956 to 1974 (photo 2008).
105 Newland Park, Hull, was Larkin's home from 1974 to his death in 1985 (photo 2008).
The headstone marking Larkin's grave at Cottingham municipal cemetery, Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire