Poetry smooths way for riders

The soothing stanzas of W.B. Yeats and other poets will soon help passengers on the London Underground to while away their journeys.

The works of the Irish writer, and others such as Seamus Heaney and Patrick Kavanagh, will be featured on “tube” carriages beginning this month as part of a plan to bring poetry to a wider audience.

Transport for London will also print 100,000 copies of an anthology celebrating Irish poetry, the Irish Independent reported.