Panel poster; Poems on the Underground, Mmenson, by Edward Kamau Brathwaite, 1989

• Physical description

  Dimensions

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

  Colour

  Attribute	Value
  Colour	White Black Red

  Item content

  Attribute	Value
  Object title	Mmenson
  Text	MMENSON / Summon now the kings of teh forest, / horn of the elephant, / mournful call of the elephant; / summon the emirs, kings of the desert, horses caparisioned, beaten gold bent, / archers and criers, porcupine arrows, bows bent; / recount now the gains and the losses: / Agades, Sokoto, El Hassan dead in his tent, / the silks and the brasses, the slow weary tent / of our journeys down slopes, dry river courses; / land of the lion, land of the leopard, elephant / country; tall grasses, thick prickly herbs. / Blow elephant / trumpet; summon teh horse, / dead horses, our losses: the bent / slow bow of the Congo, the watering Niger... / Edward Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930) / Rerpinted by permission of Oxford University Press from The Arrivants (1973) (copyright) Edwards Kamau Brathwaite / Poems on the Underground / The Poetry Society 01-373 2551 - The British Library (Zweig Programme) - The British Council - Queen Mary & Westfield College / Printed by First Impression 01-733 1182 / DESIGNED AND PRODUCED BY APT 01-701 0477

• People involved

  Role	Person(s) involved
  Agency	APT, 1989
  Commissioner	Poems on the Underground, 1989
  Poet	Edward Kamau Brathwaite,
  Printer	First Impression, 1989
  Publisher	TfL, 1989