100 Poems on the Underground

The poems collected here, familiar and unfamiliar, are all much travelled. The great themes of poetry - love, death, war, time, the natural world - sit here alongside comic nonsense and traditional street cries, apparently at random, like passengers on a crowded train. Long-time travellers on the London Underground may recognise these poems as their fellow passengers: in the first five years of ‘Poems on the Underground’, they all appeared as posters on Underground trains, between ads for temps and toothpaste, put there to bring pleasure to the working day. This new Revised Edition of 100 Poems on the Underground, published on the project''s 40th anniversary, once again allows these poems to be seen together, to be read again and remembered with affection.

A. E. Housman, Adrian Mitchell, Adrienne Rich, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Andrew Salkey, Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, Anne Stevenson, Anon., Carole Satyamurti, Carolyn Forché, Charles Causley, Christopher Logue, Cicely Herbert, Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin, Czeslaw Milosz, Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass, D. H. Lawrence, David Wright, Denise Levertov, Derek Mahon, Derek Walcott, Dylan Thomas, Edward Lear, Edward Thomas, Edwin Morgan, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Jennings, Emily Dickinson, Fleur Adcock, Francis Thompson, Gavin Ewart, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Gordon, Lord Byron, George Herbert, Gerard Benson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gillian Clarke, Grace Nichols, James Berry, Jean Binta Breeze, John Keats, John Milton, Judith Wright, Kamau Brathwaite, Ken Smith, Kit Wright, Liz Lochhead, Lorna Goodison, Louis MacNeice, Marina Tsvetayeva, Maya Angelou, Michael Drayton, Norman MacCaig, Oscar Wilde, Osip Mandelstam, Patrick Kavanagh, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Philip Larkin, R. S. Thomas, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Robert Graves, Robert Herrick, Roger McGough, Rudyard Kipling, Ruth Fainlight, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sappho, Seamus Heaney, Sheenagh Pugh, Siegfried Sassoon, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Stevie Smith, T. S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme, Ted Hughes, The King James Bible, Theodore Roethke, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, Walt Whitman, Wendy Cope, William Blake, William Carlos Williams, William Dunbar, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Wole Soyinka