This month we feature the poems from our February poems leaflet published in 2020 and distributed free at London Underground stations. The poems featured include some personal favourites and reflections on the natural world and the human imagination.
In their highly individual voices, the poets gathered together here all affirm the enduring value of the written word.
You can see all the poems from leaflet below, or see a copy of our February Poems leaflet
Look out for our new set of poems on the Underground on London Underground and Overground trains from February 27th
February Poems on the Underground
Thaw by Edward Thomas
February – not everywhere by Norman MacCaig
Honesty by Kit Wright
Promise by Jackie Kay
Perseverance by Marin Sorescu translated by D.J. Enright
Sonnet 98 by William Shakespeare
Prayer For My Father as a Child by Miriam Nash
Fear by Ciaran Carson
The Gulls by Jacob Polley
The Trees by Philip Larkin
Thaw by David Malouf
25 February 1944 Primo Levi translated by Eleonora Chiavetti
Letters From Yorkshire by Maura Dooley
Western Wind by Anon
As a Gale on the Mountainside by Sappho
Love after Love by Derek Walcott
Chinese Poems on the Underground
Winter Travels by Bei Dao translated by David Hinton with Yanbing Chen
Vase by Yang Lian translated by John Cayley
New Year 1933 by Lu Xun Translated by W.J.F. Jenner
The Red Cockatoo by Po Chu-i Translated by Arthur Waley
Listening to a Monk from Shu Playing the Lute by Li Bai translated by Vikram Seth
Blue, blue is the grass by Anon Translated by Ezra Pound
You can see our poems from January 2023 here