Heaney's work to feature on the London Underground

'Poems on the Underground' began in 1986 as part of a project to allow commuters to have something to read while they travel.

Extracts from noted works are printed on cards above the seats on trains and this years selected works will begin to appear this month.

Seamus Heaney's poem celebrating the life of the city's venerated saint, Columbcille. The work 'Colmcille The Scribe' contains the lines: "My hand is weary from writing, my sharp quill is not steady, my slender-beaked pen juts forth a black draught of shining dark blue ink.

"My little dripping pen travels across the plain of shining books without ceasing for the wealth of the great, my hand is weary from writing."

Other writers whose work will be used alongside Heaney's include John Keats and Thomas Hardy.