Judith Chernaik’s idea to feature verse in subway cars has transformed the morning commutes of millions worldwide. Forty years ago, Judith Chernaik had the idea to put poems in the Underground, London ...

This guide is produced in partnership with Blue Peter. Poems Aloud, written by Joseph Coelho and illustrated by Daniel Gray-Barnett, is the fifth title in the Blue Peter Book Club. A book full of ...

(The conflict had finished barely a year before his book appeared.) Many of the poems, which are beautifully observed and soaked in sadness, concern battles, carnage, surrender; but others, such as ...