Dear Readers, I have long loved the Poems on the Underground series – the poems have often brought me up short, and I’ve sometimes seen someone look up from their phone and stare, transfixed, at the words. There are six new poems for this autumn, and here are my favourites.

The W.H Auden poem above could not be more apposite for the times we live in, and neither could the Benjamin Zephaniah poem below. Once a Londoner, always a Londoner.

And here is a poem by local East Finchley poet Fleur Adcock who died last year.

And I love this one. So powerful.