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Panel poster; Poems on the Underground, Thread suns, by Paul Celan, 1998

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Reference number
2016/4163
Description
Poster with text in English and German. Includes logos for London Arts Board, Visiting Arts, the Underground and a link to www.netpoems.com.
Artist
Dates
1998
Collection
Object type
  • Panel poster
Location
Topics
Completeness
48%

  • Physical description

    Dimensions
    AttributeValue
    Height
    280mm
    Width
    610mm
    Descriptive size
    Panel poster
    Item content
    AttributeValue
    Object title
    Thread suns
    Text
    Thread suns / Thread suns / above the grey-black wilderness. / A tree - / high thought / tunes in to light's pitch: there are / still songs to be sung on the other side / of mankind. / Paul Cean (1920 - 70) translated by Michael Hamburger / Reprinted from Selected Poems by permission of Anvil and Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt-am-Main / Poems on the Underground / The British Council. The British Library. Design Tom Davidson / Posters and books are on sale at the London Transport Museum 0171-379 6344 / Reprinted in Poems on the Underground, 8th Edition (Cassell)
    Design
    AttributeValue
    Material
    Paper

  • People involved

    RolePerson(s) involved
    Artist
    Tom Davidson, 1998
    Commissioner
    Poems on the Underground, 1998
    Poet
    Paul Celan,
    Michael Hamburger,
    Publisher
    London Underground Ltd, 1998