Scottish Poems on the Underground
21 January 2022
Our friends at Poems on the Underground got in touch to tell us about lots of Scottish poets featured in their January posters. Poets including Robert Burns, Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie are included. You can read the poems-and download posters for free-here:
Poems on the Underground say
On a cold January morning in 1986, Poems on the Underground went live on 4,000 London Underground cars. As we celebrate 35 years of tube poems, we welcome the New Year with some favourite poems from past and recent displays.
We mark Burns night with poems by Burns and three contemporary Scottish poets. We follow this with poems on winter themes, all in their original poster designs, with poets ranging from John Gay on ‘The Great Frost’ of 1709 to Gavin Ewart on the last winter of his 14-year-old cat. We end this month’s selection with poems by Young Poets, our best hope for the future.
If you didn’t manage to see our most recent set of Poems on London Underground trains you can find our new poems by Jackie Kay, Linton Kwesi Johnson, John Keats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Seán Hewitt and Sean Borodale here https://poemsontheunderground.org/new-poems-on-the-underground-november-2021