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Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Nov 04, 2009

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The Waterloo installation of Sue Hubbard's poem Eurydice was a very successful, and very popular, piece of public art. Why on earth has it been painted over?

What is it with poetry and subterranean London? Poets always seem to be spiralling down, descending, recovering and returning. Are we running away from some loss above or retrieving something from below? Poets seem to find such echoes inescapably poignant. One public piece of poetry certainly showed Londoners share these powerful feelings.

In early October 2009, Time Out suggested one of the unmissable features of London was the poetry installation in the Waterloo underpass where, en route to the Imax, you could walk past Sue Hubbard's poem "Eurydice".

Taken from her collection Ghost Station, it is a poem painted on the tunnel walls which raids the tale of Orpheus and his wife, but puts Eurydice centre stage, and Hubbard's poem subverts the tale, where the female narrator actually seems to yearn for separation and takes pleasure in her underground journey and sojournment. The power of the piece doesn't lie

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