Delay became a popular poem. It was selected twenty years after publication, by Philip Larkin
, for The New Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Verse, and years later again to appear among the advertising placards...
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January 1986: Poems on the Underground, brainchild of Judith...
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January 1986
Poems on the Underground
, brainchild of Judith Chernaik
, was launched at a ceremony at Aldwych Station. This group arranges the display of single short poems among advertisements in London underground trains.
“London Review Bookshop advertisement”. London Review of Books, Vol.
