The result was Poems on the Underground, a project that turns 40 this year and has been copied in cities around the world.

18-year-old Vivien Urban from Hungary and 19-year-old Shukria Rezaei from Afghanistan are the two young poets chosen to be the voices of the network to mark the occasion. For one day only, the pair ...

I started writing poetry when I was eight years old and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that doing so saved my life then and at many other times. Why did I start writing poetry? Frankly, I ...