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Poems on the Underground (set 63)

Set 63 comprises eight poems, including four works in translation. The full set consists of:
- 'Blue, blue is the grass' from '19 Old Poems of the Han' (1st Century AD) translated by Ezra Pound
- 'Listening to a Monk from Shu Playing the Lute' by Li Bai (AD 701-62) translated by Vikram Seth
- The Red Cockatoo' by Po Chu-i (AD 772-846) translated by Arthur Waley
- 'New Year 1933' by Lu Xun (1881-1936) translated by W.J.F. Jenner
- 'When I have fears that I may cease to be' by John Keats
- 'There was an Old Man of Blackheath' by Edward Lear
- 'Promise' by Jackie Kay
- 'Birch Canoe' by Carter Revard