Celebrating 150 Years of the Underground

This wonderful new edition of Poems on the Underground is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013.

Contents and Themes

Here 230 poems old and new, romantic, comic and sublime explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music and the seasons, and feature poets from Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy and Wendy Cope, including Chaucer and Shakespeare, Milton, Blake and Shelley, Whitman and Dickinson, Yeats and Auden, Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott and a host of younger poets.

Additional Features

It includes a new foreword and over two dozen poems not included in previous anthologies.