Six poems by Greek, British and Irish poets will be posted in London Underground cars
from 24 February 2014 until early April in honor of the Greek EU Presidency.
Verses extolling the virtues of love and the wondrous nature, myths and history, will appear in bilingual form of poems bySappho, Constantine Cavafy (“Ionian Song”), Nikos Gatsos (Extract from Amorgos), along with poems in English by Byron (“The isles of Greece”), Keats (“On Chapman’s Homer”), and the Irish poet and translator Theo Dorgan (“Bread Dipped in Olive Oil and Salt”).
