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The British Council, in collaboration with Bloodaxe Books, have produced a series of contemporary poetry recordings featuring poets reading and talking about their work.
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The home page for Poems on the Underground at the Poetry Society web site. Contains details of news and events, and how to obtain posters.
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Orion Publishing Group publish New Poems on the Underground through their imprint Cassell.
Poems on the Underground 2006
Published by Cassell

Edited by Gerald Benson, Judith Chernaik and Cicely Herbert

You can listen to a selection of streamed contemporary poems featured on Poems on the Underground read by the authors and editors.

The poems are also available as downloadable audio files. Right-click of the MP3 file and 'Save Target As' into a folder.

Poems on the Underground CD 

Poems on the Underground, Gerard Benson, Judith Chernaik and Cicely Herbert (Editors), 2006, ISBN 0752874217. Buy Poems on the Underground CD.

 
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