London Poetry book drawings
In 2003, I was commissioned by Enitharmon Editions in London to illustrate their anthology "Drawings for London in Poetry and Prose." This included creating 13 pen-and-ink drawings, one for each chapter, as well as the artwork for the front cover and title page.
Book details
ANNA ADAMS, DRAWING BY NEIL PITTAWAY
£8.95
This anthology is a celebration of the city of London: ‘Noisy, stimulating, deadening, filthy, mysterious, tolerant, racist, crime-ridden, saint-haunted, ancient, up-to-the-minute, oppressive, liberating, crowded, lonely, addictive, and green-and-gardened, London is a microcosm of the World.’ These words, from Anna Adams’ Foreword, give a taste of the breadth of subject-matter and tone to be enjoyed in this magnificent illustrated anthology. Writing from the Middle Ages to the present is divided into themes including ‘The Weather in the Streets’, ‘The Poor and the Rich’, ‘The Countryman in Town’, ‘The Recent Wars’ and – unavoidably – ‘London Transport’.
Writers include: Anna Adams, W.H.Auden, William Blake, Lord Byron, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Clare, T.S.Eliot, D.J.Enright, U.A.Fanthorpe, Ted Hughes, Samuel Johnson, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Percy B. Shelley, JVirginia Woolf, William Wordsworth and Benjamin Zephaniah. For more information and to buy this publication please visit the link below:
https://www.enitharmon.co.uk/product/london-poetry-prose/
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Display of the original Drawings for London in Poetry and Prose
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London Poetry and Prose book images
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London in Poetry and Prose book
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London in Poetry and Prose book with London Transport
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London in Poetry and Prose collection of the book drawings
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London in Poetry and Prose inside front cover drawing and text
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London in Poetry and Prose, Book front cover