poet John Betjeman

John Betjeman

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Sir John Betjeman, CBE was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".

He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture. Starting his career as a journalist, he ended it as one of the most popular British Poets Laureate to date and a much-loved figure on British television.

Life

Early Life and Education

Betjeman was born "John Betjemann"; this was changed to the less German "Betjeman" during the First World War. He grew up at Parliament Hill Mansions in the Lissenden Gardens private estate in Highgate in North ... more »

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Dawlish

Bird-watching colonels on the old sea wall,
Down here at Dawlish where the slow trains crawl:
Low tide lifting, on a shingle shore,
Long-sunk islands from the sea once more:...

Slough

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!...

A Subaltern's Love Song

Miss J.Hunter Dunn, Miss J.Hunter Dunn,
Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun,
What strenuous singles we played after tea,
We in the tournament - you against me!...

Meditation On The A30

A man on his own in a car
Is revenging himself on his wife;
He open the throttle and bubbles with dottle
and puffs at his pitiful life...

Diary Of A Church Mouse

Here among long-discarded cassocks,
Damp stools, and half-split open hassocks,
Here where the vicar never looks
I nibble through old service books....

Back From Australia

Cocooned in Time, at this inhuman height,
The packaged food tastes neutrally of clay,
We never seem to catch the running day
But travel on in everlasting night...

False Security

I remember the dread with which I at a quarter past four
Let go with a bang behind me our house front door
And, clutching a present for my dear little hostess tight,
Sailed out for the children's ......

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    you just copied wikipedia

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  • Andrew (6/27/2020 5:28:00 AM)

    I remember reading a poem of Betjeman's set in the Botanic garden but so far haven't managed to track it down

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  • Candy (4/11/2020 9:43:00 AM)

    I'm looking for a poem that begins:
    Are you one who lies adreaming
    supine, satisfied and steaming...
    I'm pretty sure it's Betjeman - it sounds like him - but I can't find it anywhere

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  • Richard Bright (3/18/2020 12:31:00 PM)

    I am looking for his poem that lists a whole lot of Dorset villages with odd names including Ryme Intrinseca. Can anyone help?

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  • Robin (3/14/2020 5:05:00 PM)

    I would love to know from any kind members if Sir John Betjeman wrote this about Budleigh Salterton -
    " The blood is so blue in Budleigh.. etc

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  • Barry Collins (1/27/2020 10:53:00 AM)

    I used to love playing Sir John's links at St Enodoc and one poem rings very true for me as I have " birdied" the same hole as he did...

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  • Donal Power (10/15/2019 5:12:00 PM)

    With apologies to those who don't approve.

    https: //.youtube/watch? v=5wW5Ymb9hPE

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Meditation On The A30

A man on his own in a car
Is revenging himself on his wife;
He open the throttle and bubbles with dottle
and puffs at his pitiful life

She's losing her looks very fast,
she loses her temper all day;
that lorry won't let me get past,
this Mini is blocking my way.

'Why can't you step on it and shift her!
I can't go on crawling like this!
At breakfast she said that she wished I was dead-
Thank heavens we don't have to kiss.

'I'ld like a nice blonde on my knee
And one who won't argue or nag.
Who dares to come hooting at me?
I only ...

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