New Poems on the Underground - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0304367966 ISBN 13: 9780304367962

Publisher: Cassell, 2004

About this title

About the Author

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.

Review

'The simplest ideas are often the best. For nearly 20 years, Poems on the Underground have brought pinpricks of pleasure to the cramped, care-worn souls who endure the daily miseries of the Tube. The latest anthology, which includes all the poems that have appeared in the last two years, ranges from Chaucer to Heaney via Yeats and Marianne Moore... How can it fail to make you feel better?' THE INDEPENDENT

Edition details

• Publisher: Cassell
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0304367966
• ISBN 13: 9780304367962
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Editor: Gerard Benson (editor), Cicely Herbert, Judith Chernaik