Global Poetry System has learned via Salt Publishing that Sue Hubbard’s poem installation in a tunnel near Waterloo Station has been painted over. This is a real shame and we support Salt’s campaign to bring it back. Sue’s poem, being so near to the Southbank Centre, was an inspiration during the development of the project and we hope to see it back where it belongs. I have posted one word of the poem as a GPS post here – perhaps we can share photos of the rest and post on GPS? Join Salt’s campaign here.
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I keep discovering places where people have left messages.
It is wonderfully encouraging – but Network Rail seem obdurate in the Face of nearly 800 responses on Facebook and other sites
Sue
How easily do we allow vandalism to uglify our streets and undervalue a beloved gift from artists such as this.
Wake up and smell the coffee, Railtrack – lots of us like the glimmerings that companies such as yourself one day had a soul.
Today I’ve asked The Poetry Archive to add a selection
to their offerings
from the two Sue Hubbard collections I have:
Venetian Red from
Hearing Eye ISBN 1-8700841-27-1,
and Salt’s own beautiful publication of her
Ghost Station (which contains Eurydice)
ISBN 1-844710-35-1
The Archive does not exist solely to celebrate
the poems of so frequently Dead (Male) Poets.
May I suggest others do the same, please?
Public poetry is a gift and an inspiration and should exist.
Might have known that someone as smart as you would get behind our efforts towards restoration, Susan.
We need more inspiring words. The poem should be replaced and cared for.