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. As well as being displayed on underground trains throughout the capital, school members of the soicety and subscribers recieve 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.

Current Posters on Tube Trains NOW

Poems on the Underground are currently celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society with poems exploring sience.  

Series #75: Science Poems

from Auguries of Innoncence by William Blake
from In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson
In the Microscope by Miroslav Holub
Out There by Jamie McKendrick
It looks so simple froma  distance by Anne Stevenson
Fulcrum/Writing a World by David Morley


Poems are selected by writer Judith Chernaik and poets Gerard Benson and Cicely Herbert. Posters are designed by Tom Davidson. The Poems on the Underground scheme is not open to submissions. However this spring we will be running a competition for Youth Memebers of the Poetry Society and former Foyle Young Poets and commended poets aged 19 and under to submit poems three of which will be whistling through Tube trains this autumn. We will be posting more information shortly.

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 Poems on the Underground