Poetry offers hope and a voice to speak in difficult times.
‘My Voice’, by the poet Partaw Naderi from Afghanistan Translated by Sarah Maguire and Yama Yari
Jean Binta Breeze RIP
Poems on the Underground has been offering poetry to London’s tube travellers for thirty five years. You can read some of our favourite poems here, displayed in their original posters. We shall be regularly adding more poems from our collection, verses new and old, familiar and unfamiliar, serious and comic. We hope you will enjoy poems which have entertained millions of London commuters, inspiring similar programmes across the world.
A new set of poems will be circling London Underground trains throughout November. As the year draws to a close, poems by the Scottish makar Jackie Kay and the distinguished Jamaican poet Linton Kwesi Johnson celebrate the enduring value of our closest human relationships. And well-loved poems by Keats and Hopkins, alongside new poems by Laurel Prizewinners Seán Hewitt and Sean Borodale, remind us of the glory and fragility of the natural world.
You can see our Autumn 2021 set of Poems on the Underground here
Our recent set of poems by an international range of poets was on London Underground cars throughout the summer of 2021
You can see our Summer 2021 set of Poems on the Underground here
This year we are also marking the bicentenary of London’s much -loved poet, John Keats, with a special display of posters at Hampstead Station and London Bridge Station
You can see our Poems to Celebrate Keats here
You can download a copy of our Black History Month Leaflet here
You can download a copy of our London Poems on the Underground leaflet here
