Poems on the Underground: Sumer is icumen in – The Poetry Society
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The summer Poems on the Underground went live on London Underground and Overground cars on Monday June 3rd for four weeks. They are delighted to welcome the joys of summer and its special music with a truly international set of poems: a tribute to the great American jazz greats by the Ghanaian-British poet Nii Ayikwei Parkes; a 13th-century round, also known as the Cuckoo Song; a love poem by Azita Ghahreman, an Iranian poet writing in Persian; Don Paterson’s version of a sonnet to Orpheus by the great Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke; A E Housman’s lament from A Shropshire Lad; and an extract from the late Benjamin Zephaniah’s celebration of our common origins as ‘refugees’.