Railway Rhymes (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS) - Hardcover

Not many people seem to have an idea of the effect the railways had on most people s lives, or, interestingly, how many poets and writers felt compelled to write about those changes. There was also a surge of Industrial Romanticism that they brought out in poets and writers. A wee gem. Read it cover to cover today. --Robbie Coltrane

Railway Rhymes is probably the first time that the poetry of railways has been brought together into one dedicated volume. Here will certainly be found the old favourites - Philip Larkin's 'Whitsun Weddings', W.H. Auden's 'Night Mail', John Betjeman's 'Distant View of a Provincial Town', - but equally this little book is stuffed with forgotten gems like Edmund Blunden's 'Two Wars' and Patricia Beer's 'The Branch Line'. Divided up into chapters entitled Navigation, Engineering, Waiting, Travellingand Musing, Railway Rhymes is the perfect pocket companion for waiting room and train compartment alike