One of the great unrequited love stories of English literature is finally over, following the death of the muse of one of Britain's best known poets. Joan Jackson was immortalised in print as Joan ...

LONDON — She was an innocent beauty working in the catering department of a wartime ministry. He was making government films by day and writing poems at night. Their eyes met; something clicked. A ...

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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 ...

John Betjeman, Britain’s poet laureate from 1972 until his death in 1984, had a deep love of Ireland that pre- and postdated his near three-year term as British press attache in Dublin during the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury has secured its place in literary history by putting the boy wizard’s adventures on the printed page. But its latest publication, Harvest Bells — a collection by the ...

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Sir John Betjeman was initially overlooked as poet laureate because he was considered a lightweight ‘versifier’, newly released official files reveal (PA) (PA Archive) I spend half my life banging on ...