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Panel poster; Poems on the Underground 1,000 Years of Poetry in English, Scel Lem Duib season song, by Anonymous, 2000

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Reference number
2016/5487
Description
Poster with text. Includes logos for 9th edition Cassell, London Arts Board, The British Council, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, The Arts Council of England and the Underground. There is also a link to www.netpoems.com
Artist
Dates
2000
Collection
Object type
  • Panel poster
Location
Topics
Completeness
48%

  • Physical description

    Dimensions
    AttributeValue
    Height
    280
    Width
    610
    Descriptive size
    Panel poster
    Item content
    AttributeValue
    Object title
    Scel Lem Duib season song
    Text
    SCEL LEM DUIB / Here's a song - / stags give tongue / winter snows / summer goes / High cold blow / sun is low / brief his day / seas give spray. / Fern clumps redden / shapes are hidden / wildgeese raise / wonted cries. / Cold now girds / wings of birds / icy time - / that's my rime. / SEASON SONG / Anon (9th century) / Translated from the Irish by Flann O'Brien / Version by Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan, 1911-66) reprinted by permission of Evelyn O'Nolan / Poems on the Underground / 1,000 YEARS OF POETRY IN ENGLISH / Books and Posters are on sale at The London Transport Museum, Covent Garden 020 7379 6344 - Poster design by Tom Davidson
    Design
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    Material
    Paper

  • People involved

    RolePerson(s) involved
    Artist
    Tom Davidson, 2000
    Commissioner
    Poems on the Underground, 2000
    Poet
    Anonymous,
    Flann O'Brien,
    Publisher
    London Underground Ltd, 2000