 POTU also produces booklets free of charge to the public and publishes anthologies.Launched in 1986, the "Poems on the Underground" programme was the idea of three writers, Judith Chernaik, Gerard Benson, and Cicely Herbert whose aim was to bring poetry to a wider audience.Judith Chernaik, Cicely Herbert, Imtiaz Dharker, and George Szirtes now select poems for inclusion in the programme.