Susan’s Bookshelves: The Best of Betjeman selected by John Guest

John Betjeman seems to be a Marmite poet. I love the rueful, wit and rapier-sharp observation of, say “Hunter Trials” or “In Westminster Abbey.” But I had two colleagues in my last teaching post who loathed him. One said Betjeman wrote mere doggerel and the other argued that you couldn’t teach Betjeman’s poetry because he […]

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Fibonacci Quartet Strings Attached Brighton Corn Exchange 19 April 2026 This interesting concert gave us two string quartets written...

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