‘The Moon and The Zoo’: Simon Armitage poem celebrates 200 years of ZSL | Zoology
Over its two centuries, acclaimed writers and artists have found inspiration at London zoo, from Edwin Landseer’s Trafalgar Square lions, to AA Milne’s naming “Winnie” after resident bear Winnipeg, and Sylvia Plath’s poem Zoo Keeper’s Wife. Plath’s husband, Ted Hughes, who would become poet laureate, worked at the zoo briefly as a dish washer, an…
