Isn’t it wonderful that London Underground have poems available for all to read?
One of my favorite authors, Alexander McCall Smith has just released a book on W.H. Auden and the article about the book, mentions a poem I particularly like. So I clicked the link and it took me to the Transport for London website and a whole list of wonderful poems.
I believe it should be mandatory for all rail networks around the world to enrich the lives of their thousands of passengers with beautifully crafted, home-grown words.
Imagine what that would do for poetry book sales!
Alexander McCall Smith’s ‘Tears of a Giraffe’
Alexander McCall Smith’s No 1 Ladies Detective Agency books have the voice of my Africa – my childhood home, although set in nearby Botswana. Alexander was also born in 1948 in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, the same year my brother Paddy (also a professor) was born in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia. I giggled with the characters through most of this one and others in the series or else wiped away tears – they’re written with such humanity…
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