Poems on the Underground

Poems on the Underground

The Poetry Society and Poems on the Underground join forces to promote one of Britain's most successful public art projects.

 

Current Posters on Tube Trains NOW

Series #71

  • My Voice, Partaw Naderi
  • The River Road, Sean O'Brien
  • On Receiving News of the War, Issac Rosenberg
  • Parting in Wartime, Francis Cornford
  • She Tells Her Love, Robert Graves
  • They Flee From Me, Sir Thomas Wyatt

Poems are selected by writer Judith Chernaik and poets Gerard Benson and Cicely Herbert. Posters are designed by Tom Davidson.

The tube display is generously funded by London Underground; the programme receives additional support from London Arts and the British Council, with support for Young Poets on the Underground from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Poetry archive of daily Poems on the Underground