The Poetry of the London Underground

Now in its ninth edition, Poems on the Underground catalogs poems in English that are posted in the trains beneath the streets of London. Spend a few minutes reading what commuters in The City get to read on their way home.

          Sergeant Brown's Parrot
          by Kit Wright

          The Very Leaves of the Acacia Tree are London
         by Kathleen Raine

          Like a Beacon
          by Grace Nichols

          Saturday Morning
          by Hugo Williams

          Song
          by Grace Nichols

Poems on the Underground is published in the U.K. by Cassell. © 1999
ISBN: 0-304-35333-7