Panel poster; Poems on the Underground, Old English riddle, translated by Gerard Benson, 1990

• Physical description

  Dimensions

  Attribute	Value
  Height	280mm
  Width	610mm
  Descriptive size	Panel poster

  Item content

  Attribute	Value
  Object title	Old English riddle
  Text	OLD ENGLISH RIDDLE / translated by Gerard Benson / Manuscript reproduced from the Exeter Book with the permission of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter Cathedral / A moth, I thought, munching a word. / How marvellously weird! a worm / Digesting a man's sayings - / A sneakthief nibbling in the shadows / At the shape of a poet's thunderous phrases - / How unutterably strange! / And the pilfering parasite none the wiser / For the words he has swallowed. / Poems on the Underground / The Poetry Society 071-373 2551. The British Council. The British Library (Zweig Programme). Designed and typeset by APT Photoset 071-701 0477 / (Answer: Bookworm) / Arts Council Funded

  Design

  Attribute	Value
  Material	Paper

• People involved

  Role	Person(s) involved
  Artist	APT Photoset, 1990
  Commissioner	Poems on the Underground, 1990
  Poet	Gerard Benson,
  Publisher	London Underground Ltd, 1990