Skip page header and navigation

Panel poster; Poems on the Underground, Consider the grass growing, by Patrick Kavanagh, 2021

Share this item
Add to collection

Main details

Main details for this item.
Reference number
2023/1433
Description
Poster with text in English. Includes logos for Mayor of London, Arts Council England, British Council, The Poetry Society, and Transport for London. There are also links to tfl.gov.uk/poems and poemsontheunderground.org
Artist
Dates
2021
Collection
Object type
  • Panel poster
Location
Topics
Completeness
49%

  • Physical description

    Dimensions
    AttributeValue
    Height
    280mm
    Width
    610mm
    Descriptive size
    panel poster
    Colour
    AttributeValue
    Colour
    • White
    Item content
    AttributeValue
    Object title
    Consider the grass growing
    Text
    Consider the Grass Growing / Patrick Kavanagh / Reprinted from Collected Poems / edited by Antoinette Quinn / (Allen Lane, 2004) by kind permission / of the Trustees of the Estate of the late / Katherine B. Kavanagh, through the / Jonathan Williams Literary Agency / Consider the grass growing / As it grew last year and the year before, / Cool about the ankles like summer rivers, / When we walked on a May evening through the meadows / To watch the mare that was going to foal. / Poems on the Underground
    Design
    AttributeValue
    Material
    paper

  • People involved

    RolePerson(s) involved
    Artist
    Tom Davidson, 2021
    Commissioner
    Poems on the Underground, 2021
    Poet
    Patrick Kavanagh,
    Publisher
    TfL, 2021