Lewis Corry, a first-year undergraduate student studying Design Innovation and Creative Engineering, was one of the featured poets invited to celebrate 40 years of Poems on the Underground recently.

The event held by Transport for London and the Poetry Society at Bank Station on Friday 30th January saw London poets whose work has featured in the scheme over the years invited to read their poems, hear others and meet poetry lovers.

Lewis’ poem, ‘2013, and Deadalus never moved away for work’, was displayed on the underground network as part of Poems on the Underground in 2025.

To mark the occasion, they read their poems at Grade II listed underground station at Covent Garden in February 2025, including recording it on the tannoy, to be played back throughout the day.

The 19-year-old from the Isle of Wight was also included in the Foyle’s Young Poet’s collection in both 2023 and 2024.

They see themself as a creative and see their engineering and design work as part of this.

Speaking to Brave Island in 2024 they said “Art is science and science is art, and, at their core both are trying to answer exactly the same questions. Who are we? Why are we here? How? Can things be better than this?... Creative thinking is at the core of any new discovery.”