Records from the National Archive reveal the cut-throat world of British poetry, and the politics behind selecting candidates Sir John Betjeman was dismissed as a “songster of tennis lawns and ...

When did you last hear of a poetry book selling in the millions? Or any book, for that matter, that isn't about magic or bondage? John Betjeman's Collected Poems – with their crisp vignettes of ...

The third and final volume of Bevis Hillier's biography of John Betjeman covers some 25 years - from 1958, when Betjeman was 52, to his death in 1984. They were years in which he continued to write ...

John Betjeman (1906-1984), Britain’s Poet Laureate, resisted the modern trend to write poetry that neither scans nor rhymes and tends to be opaque in meaning. Despised by modernists, he had the last ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Joan Hunter Dunn, genteel muse to Britain's Poet Laureate John Betjeman and the inspiration for one of his best known poems, has died at the age of 92. Sign up here. Betjeman, who ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Sir John Betjeman, one of the best-loved British poets of the 20th century, was initially overlooked as poet laureate because he was ...

Sir John Betjeman, one of the best-loved British poets of the 20th century, was initially overlooked as poet laureate because he was considered a lightweight “versifier” who lacked serious merit, ...

To mark the centenary of his birth, BBC TWO and BBC Radio present a series of programmes about poet John Betjeman. John Betjeman is still remembered as one of Britain's best loved poets - a man who ...