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 ...

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