100 Poems on the Underground: 40th Anniversary Edition

£9.99

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 will 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 in peace and remembered with affection.

This editions includes a new Preface by Judith Chernaik.

Published January 2026.

 

Description

Includes poems by:

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

Additional information

Format

Paperback

ISBN

978-1-914914-31-7

Publication Year

January 2026