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Scottish Poems on the Underground

21 January 2022

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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:

January 2022

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


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Robert Burns1759 - 1796

If ever a poet understood the character of his nation, he was Robert Burns. The language he was most fluent in wasn’t so much Scots or English – it was the language of the heart.
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Kathleen Jamieb.1962

Kathleen Jamie is a poet, essayist and travel writer. She has been Professor of Poetry at the University of Stirling since 2010.
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Don Patersonb.1963

Since the appearance of his first collection in 1993, Don Paterson has emerged a major poet, as well as an important anthologist, editor and critic.
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