Sets of Poems on the Underground posters displayed on London Underground from 2013 to 2021
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2013: A year-long celebration of 150 years of London Underground
Set 84 February 2013 : London Then and Now
From The Prelude William Wordsworth
Vacillation W.B.Yeats
Stations Connie Bensley
Gherkin Music Jo Shapcott
Barter Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Bam Chi Chi La La London 1969 Lorna Goodison
Set 85 June 2013: London in motion
From Jerusalem William Blake
At Lord’s Francis Thompson
Buses on the Strand R. P. Lister
The Conversation of Old Men Thom Gunn
Our Meetings Andrew Waterman
Moment in a Peace March Grace Nichols
Set 86 October 2013 : London Underground 150
Composed upon Westminster Bridge William Wordsworth
From Summoned by Bells John Betjeman
Spooner Goes Under Brian O’Connor
On the Thames Karen McCarthy Woolf
Thank you London Underground John Hegley
Like a Beacon Grace Nichols
Set 87 January 2014: Greek Poems and Poets
As a gale on the mountainside Sappho tr. Cicely Herbert and
This place is Aphrodite’s Anyte of Tegea ‘’ tr. Peter Constantine
Ionian Song C.P. Cavafy
From “Amorgos” Nikos Gatsos
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer John Keats
From “Don Juan” Lord Byron
Bread Dipped in Olive Oil and Salt Theo Dorgan
Set 88 June 2014: Welsh Poems and Poets
From “Fern Hill” Dylan Thomas
Mysteries Dannie Abse
In a young time Gerard Benson
Six bells Gillian Clarke
Small brown job Gwyneth Lewis
Skirrid Fawr Owen Sheers
Set 89 October 2014 : War Poems
In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Edward Thomas
Bach and the Sentry Ivor Gurney
The General by Siegfried Sassoon
Fratelli/Brothers by Giuseppe Ungaretti translated by Patrick Creagh
Im Osten / In the East by Georg Trakl, a new translation by David Constantine
La Petite Auto/The Little Car by Guillaume Apollinaire translated by the Editors
Set 90 January 2015: Yeats 150 (throughout 2015) and Irish Poetry
Sailing to Byzantium W.B. Yeats
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven W.B. Yeats
I am Raftery the Poet Lady Augusta Gregory
What is Truth Louis MacNeice
Legends Eavan Boland
Not Weeding Paula Meehan
Set 91 Yeats 150 Summer Poems on the Underground June 2015
When You Are Old W.B. Yeats
Westron wynde when wylt thou blow Anon
Cuts Sam Riviere
Had I not been awake Seamus Heaney
Stationery Agha Shahid Ali
from Labour Ward Anna T Szabó
Set 92 October 2015: Young Poets on the Underground
Playtime Matt Broomfield
Boy Imogen Cassels
Circulation Laura Harray
An Irish Airman foresees his Death W.B. Yeats
The Sloth Theodore Roethke
Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969 Lorna Goodison
Set 93 January 2016: Repeat of our first set for 30th anniversary of Poems on the Underground 1986 – 2016
Up in the Morning Early Robert Burns
Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley
This Is Just to Say William Carlos Williams
The Railway Children Seamus Heaney
Like a Beacon Grace Nichols
Set 94 July 2016 Shakespeare’s 400th Anniversary
Sonnet 116 William Shakespeare
Ariel’s song, from The Tempest William Shakespeare
From King Lear William Shakespeare
With a Guitar, To Jane P.B. Shelley
Hour Carol Ann Duffy, from Rapture
The Sonnets Michael Longley
Set 95 November 2016: London is Open
A Trojan Horse in Trafalgar Square George Szirtes –
London Fields Michael Rosen
Chilling Out Beside the Thames John Agard
Our Town with the Whole of India Daljit Nagra
No. 3 from Uses for the Thames Jane Draycott
Autumn Journal Louis MacNeice
Set 96 February 2017: International poetry by Israeli, Palestinian, Italian and British poets
Green the land of my poem Mahmoud Darwish
‘Ein Yahav’ from “ Israeli Travel: Otherness is All, Otherness is Love” Yehuda Amichai
And suddenly it’s evening Salvatore Quasimodo
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun from Cymbeline William Shakespeare
Delay Elizabeth Jennings
Funeral Blues W.H. Auden
Set 97 August 2017: Indian Poems on the Underground
Pilgrim Eunice de Souza
This Morning Mona Arshi
Today Sujata Bhatt
The Butterfly Arun Kolatkar
Approaching Fifty Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Stationery Agha Shahid Ali
Set 98 February 2018 editors’ choice (with two Young Poets Foyle Young Poets of the Year
Layers of Kant reveal Safrina Ahmed
Astral Enlightenment Kyle Spencer
Grasmere Journal, 1801 Sinéad Morrissey
Look there he goes even now, my father Daljit Nagra
Love Hannah Lowe
A Date on Sunday Antanas Šimkus,
Cuckoo (‘Has it flown away’) Fujiwara no Toshinari, translated by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite
Set 99 August 2018 : Windrush 70, A Celebration of Caribbean poetry
A dream of leavin James Berry (1924-2017)
History and Away Andrew Salkey (1928-1995)
dreamer Jean Binta Breeze
Dew Kwame Dawes
I Am Becoming my Mother Lorna Goodison.
Epilogue Grace Nichols
Set 100 November 2018: Armistice, November 1918
Everyone Sang Siegfried Sassoon
Thaw Edward Thomas, killed on 9 April 1917 during the Battle of Arras
Heroes Kathleen Raine
Armistice Day Charles Causley
The place where we are right Yehuda Amichai
Inscription for a War A.D. Hope, with the famous ‘Inscription at Thermopylae’: Stranger, go tell the Spartans / we died here obedient to their commands
Set 101 February 2019 : Love, then and now
John Anderson, my jo, Robert Burns
Meeting at Night, Robert Browning
Wild Nights! Emily Dickinson
Hops Boris Pasternak, translated from Russian by Jon Stallworthy and Peter France
The Present, by Michael Donaghy
India, by Jane Draycott
Set 102 July 2019: : The Natural World
The Meaning of Existence Les Murray
Still Life with Sea Pinks and High Tide Maura Dooley
I Am the Song Charles Causley
The shaft Helen Dunmore
My life closed twice before its close Emily Dickinson
Set 103 November 2019: : Time and memory
Music when soft voices die P.B. Shelley
All Souls Night Frances Cornford
My Father Yehuda Amichai
Suddenly Salvatore Quasimodo
Diary Katrina Naomi
For the House Sparrow in Decline Paul Farley
Set 104 February 2020: Love and Nature, youth and age
Sonnet 98 (‘From you I have been absent in the spring’) William Shakespeare
Honesty, from ‘Talking to the Weeds’, Kit Wright
The Gulls Jacob Polley
Prayer for My Father as a Child Miriam Nash
Fear Ciaran Carson
Perseverance Marin Sorescu, translated by D.J. Enright
Set 105 August 2020 : Poems of hope in difficult times
And if I speak of Paradise Roger Robinson
Cordón Laura Chalar, translated by Erica Mena
Everything Changes Cicely Herbert
London Fields Michael Rosen
Note Leanne O’Sullivan
Time to be slow John O’Donohue
Set 106 October/November 2020 : Poems for Black History Month
Naima Kamau Brathwaite
Benediction James Berry
I am Becoming my Mother Lorna Goodison
I Sing of Change Niyi Osundare
BOM Mumbai Airport Nick Makoha
Dew Kwame Dawes
Set 107 February 2021 : John Keats. Bicentenary of his death
from ‘Endymion’ John Keats
When I have fears that I may cease to be John Keats
from Adonais Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wish You Were Here Julia Fiedorczuk, translated by Bill Johnston
rising Jean Binta Breeze
I go inside the tree Jo Shapcott
Set 108 July 2021: International Poets
Remembering Summer W.S. Merwin
Her Glasses Pascale Petit
In the Bright Sleeve of the Sky Ilya Kaminsky
Consider the Grass Growing Patrick Kavanagh
An epigram from The Greek Anthology by Anyte of Tegea, translated by David Constantine
Black Ink Fawzi Karim