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Poems on the Underground Celebrating Black History Month Poem of the Week October 9th Beacon of Hope by Linton Kwesi Johnson poemsontheunderground.org/beacon-of-ho...
Beacon of Hope (for John La Rose)
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Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week: Caedmon's Hymn translated by Paul Muldoon poemsontheunderground.org/caedmons-hymn
Caedmon’s Hymn
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Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week September 26th Canticle by John F. Deane poemsontheunderground.org/canticle
Canticle
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Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week September 19th from Mutabilitie by Edmund Spenser poemsontheunderground.org/from-mutabil...
from Mutabilitie
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Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week September 12th Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth poemsontheunderground.org/composed-upo...
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
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Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week September 5th from to Autumn by John Keats poemsontheunderground.org/from-to-autumn
from To Autumn
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Poems on the Underground September 2026 We have a new collection of poems on our website for September. poemsontheunderground.org/september-2026 This month we feature Autumn poems, poems from our 40 poems for 40 years leaflet and London Poems from Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice
Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week August 29th The London Breed by Benjamin Zephaniah poemsontheunderground.org/the-london-b...
The London Breed
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Poem of the Week August 22nd Note by Leanne O'Sullivan poemsontheunderground.org/note
Note
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Poem of the Week: What is Truth by Louis MacNeice poemsontheunderground.org/what-is-truth
‘What is truth?’
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Poem of the Week: Midsummer, Tobago by Derek Walcott poemsontheunderground.org/midsummer-to...
Midsummer, Tobago
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Poems on the Underground August 2026 We have a new selection of poems on our website for August featuring all the summer sets of poems from 2021-26. poemsontheunderground.org/august-2026 Poem of the Week August 1st from The Greek Anthology by Anyte of Tegea translated by David Constantine
Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week July 25th Ode to Joy by Gillian Clarke poemsontheunderground.org/ode-to-joy
Ode to Joy
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Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week July 18th A Bunch of Consolation by Maura Dooley poemsontheunderground.org/a-bunch-of-c...
A Bunch of Consolation
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Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week July 11th Ragwort by Anne Stevenson poemsontheunderground.org/ragwort
Ragwort
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Poem of the Week 4th July Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman poemsontheunderground.org/crossing-bro...
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
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Poems on the Underground July 2026 We have a new selection of poems on our website for July poemsontheunderground.org/july-2026 This Month we feature Poems to Celebrate Pride, African Poems on the Underground, Poems of Love and Hope, London Poems and Musical Poems on the Underground
Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week June 27th ‘No One Mentioned the Roofer’ for Pat Mackey by Rita Ann Higgins poemsontheunderground.org/no-one-menti... Look out for this with the New Summer Poems on the Underground on Underground and Overground trains for 4 weeks from June 1st
No One Mentioned the Roofer
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Poems on the Underground Celebrating Refugee Week: We Refugees by Benjamin Zephaniah poemsontheunderground.org/we-refugees
We Refugees
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Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week June 13th Look out for the New Summer Poems on the Underground on Underground and Overground trains for 4 weeks from June 1st 'Letter' by Tadeusz Dabrowski translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones poemsontheunderground.org/letter-2
Look out for the New Summer Poems on the Underground on Underground and Overground trains for 4 weeks from June 1st Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week June 6th When I Was a Fish’ by Krystyna Lenkowska translated by the author and Cecilia Woloch poemsontheunderground.org/when-i-was-a...
When I Was a Fish
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Poems on the Underground New Summer Poems The New Summer Poems on the Underground go live on Underground and Overground trains on June 1st You can find all the poems on our website poemsontheunderground.org/june-2026 ‘Song’ by William Shakespeare from The Merchant of Venice, III.2.63
June 2026
The summer Poems on the Underground go live on Underground and Overground trains on June 1st The summer poems include the Clown’s song from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: ̵…
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Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week May 30th Sumer is Icumen in, Anon poemsontheunderground.org/sumer-is-icu...
Sumer is Icumen In
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Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week May 23rd Bowl by Elizabeth Cook poemsontheunderground.org/bowl
Bowl
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Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week May 16th The Present by Michael Donaghy poemsontheunderground.org/the-present
The Present
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Happy Birthday to Michael Rosen! Poem of the Week: London Fields by Michael Rosen poemsontheunderground.org/london-fields
London Fields
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Happy Birthday to Michael Rosen! London Fields by Michael Rosen poemsontheunderground.org/london-fields
London Fields
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Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week May 2nd The Argument of His Book by Robert Herrick poemsontheunderground.org/the-argument...
The Argument of His Book
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