This event is free but booking is advised.


World Poems on the Underground

 

The new set of ‘World Poems on the Underground’ includes poets from India, Turkey, Germany, Pakistan, Guyana and Nigeria. 

 


 
The poems and poets:

'Finding India in Unexpected Places’ by Sujata Bhatt
Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press from Pure Lizard (2008)

‘I Sing of Change’ by Niyi Osundare
Reprinted from Selected Poems (1992) by permission of the author

‘Baku at Night’ by Nazim Hikmet
Reprinted by permission of Persea Books from Poems of Nazim Hikmet,     translated from the Turkish by Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk (2002)

To Toussaint L’Ouverture’ by John Agard
Reprinted by permission of Bloodaxe from Alternative Anthems: Selected   Poems (2009)

‘Carving’ by Imtiaz Dharker
Reprinted by permission of Bloodaxe from The terrorist at my table ( 2006)

‘Boy with Orange (out of Kosovo)’ by Lotte Kramer
Reprinted by permission of Rockingham from New & Collected Poems (2011)

 

Poems on the Underground Booklet

The poems featured on the Tube will be included in a booklet of ‘World Poems on the Underground’. 120,000 copies will be distributed free as part of the London 212 Festival at Tube stations, libraries, the Southbank Centre, the Mayor’s office, and through the British Council and the Scottish Poetry Library. The booklet includes poets featured in our sets of African, Commonwealth, European, Australian and Chinese Poems on the Underground, as well as South American and Southeast Asian poets. Two of the poets in our current set (John Agard and Imtiaz Dharker) will be Poets in Residence at ‘Poetry Parnassus’ next summer. 
 

  

About 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. As well as being displayed on underground trains throughout the capital, school members of the soicety and subscribers receive a sets of Poems on the Underground Posters each time they are released.

You can also order individual posters or sets through our shop, we ask for a £3 for an invidual poster or £9.99 for a set in order to cover the storage, handling, postage and packing costs.

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 Arts Council England and the British Council, with support for Young Poets on the Underground from the Foyle Foundation.