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Panel poster; Poems on the Underground, A trojan horse in Trafalgar square, by George Szirtes, 2016

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Reference number
2016/4991
Description
Poster with text. Includes logos for the Mayor of London, #LondonIsOpen and the Underground. There is also a link to tfl.gov.uk/poems.
Artist
Dates
2016
Collection
Object type
  • Panel poster
Location
Topics
Completeness
50%

  • Physical description

    Dimensions
    AttributeValue
    Height
    280mm
    Width
    610mm
    Descriptive size
    Panel poster
    Item content
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    Object title
    A trojan horse in Trafalgar square
    Text
    A TROJAN HORSE / IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE / George Szirtes / Reprinted by permission of Bloodaxe from Bad Machine (2013) / We stood in Trafalgar Square completely covered / in pigeons but looking all too pleased to find / such wholehearted acceptance. We were the boys / of the awkward squad, growing at an angle. / Occasionally perhaps one of us shivered / in the sheer tide of her, in the vast mind / of street-maps it took an alien to untangle / as if she were not one but several Troys. / Poems on the Underground
    Design
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    Material
    Paper

  • People involved

    RolePerson(s) involved
    Artist
    Tom Davidson, 2016
    Commissioner
    Poems on the Underground, 2016
    Poet
    George Szirtes,
    Publisher
    TfL, 2016