Panel poster; Poems on the Underground, Fenland station in winter, by Katherine Pierpoint, 1998

• Physical description

  Dimensions

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

  Item content

  Attribute	Value
  Object title	Fenland station in winter
  Text	FENLAND STATION IN WINTER / The railway station in winter lies wide open on three sides; / A waiting mousetrap. / No creatures out in the hard fields, / The desert of blue-lipped ice. / The tracks tweeze the last thin train away, / Wipe it on the rim, and lose it. / The sky is bent so low now, the wind is horizontal. / It whittles the sky's undersurface to the pith, / Paring away a grey unwinding peel of snow. / A mean, needling flake rides the flat wind, / Picking the empty teeth of the trees, / Then falling, frantic, to gnaw at the setting earth, / Clinging there like a starving mouse's claws in velvet. / Katherine Pierpoint (b.1961) / Reprinted by permission of Faber from Truffle Beds (1995) © Katherine Pierpoint 1995 / 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

  Design

  Attribute	Value
  Material	Paper

• People involved

  Role	Person(s) involved
  Artist	Tom Davidson, 1998
  Commissioner	Poems on the Underground, 1998
  Poet	Katherine Pierpoint,
  Publisher	London Underground Ltd, 1998