Poems and trees and posters and words

[taimatsu]

When I was little we had a poem on the back of our loo door. It was a green poster with drawings of trees and the poem... I thought I could remember which poem it was, and it might have been part of 'The Garden' by Andrew Marvell, the bit with 'annihilating all that's made/to a green thought in a green shade'. But it might not have been as the rest of that stanza is somewhat over the heads of six-to-nine-year-olds, which would have been my age at the time.

But it was a lovely poster, and I want some poem posters for my loo. We have a big slan of wood right in front of the toilet, and I don't want to put my nice postcards on there because they will go wrinkly and fall off and get trodden on and yucky.

Anyone know where to get attractive posters with poems on? The kind of thing English teachers put up in schools.

(The alternative is that I practice my best handwriting and write some things out myself on flipchart paper, and then decorate them a bit - but somehow that wouldn't be quite right.)

Comments

[sea-cucumber.livejournal.com]

Something like that wouldn't be too hard to make, actually...
any particular poems you were thinking of?
*ponders creativity*

[broken-gizmo.livejournal.com]

Well, if you don't mind laminating your post cards.... That could probably work.

But, now you have me thinking on the cool poster problem. I'm going to poke around. :)

[j4.livejournal.com]

Some here (for children) (http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/education/resource.htm)

War poetry posters (http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/poet_poetry_posters.html) (probably not what you want in your loo though)

And a rather nice set (http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/publications/pubs/poetry/10_Poster_Poems.html) here, which I'm quite tempted by actually

[broken-gizmo.livejournal.com]

Oh wow.

That last set is *neat*.

I wonder how much shipping to the US would be...

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I think I might buy some from that first link. Although I'm not sure about this one: Matilda, who told lies and was burned to death with background information and teaching notes by renowned anthologist Anne Harvey (sic). Seems a bit harsh. :)

[weatherpixie.livejournal.com]

http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/education/member.htm

Poems on the Underground seem to have some sort of poster set through the year...

[tiassa]

I've been wanting one of those posters with an entire Shakespeare play on them, myself - you can see an example here but I've found them in bookstores and the like.