Betjeman,John John Betjeman: 35 Favourite Poems CD

In a 1962 radio interview he told teenage questioners that he could not write about 'abstract things', preferring places and faces. Philip Larkin wrote of Betjeman's work, "how much more interesting & worth writing about (his) subjects are than most other modern poets, I mean, whether so-and-so achieves some metaphysical inner unity is not really so interesting as the overbuilding of rural Middlesex.

1. False Security 2. Hunter Trials 3. Seaside Golf 4. Norfolk 5. Sunday in Ireland 6. Remorse 7. Youth and Age on Beaulieu River 8. A Subaltern's Love Song 9. Reproof Deserved (After the Lecture) 10. Business Women 11. Song of a Night-Club Proprietress (Aka 'Sun ; Fun') 12. The Licorice Fields at Pontefract 13. Our Padre 14. Indoor Games Near Newbury 15. How to Get on in Society 16. Late Flowering Lust 17. Middlesex 18. Harrow-On-The-Hill 19. Trebetherick 20. The Arrest of Oscar Wilde 21. In Memoriam Walter Ramsden 22. Devonshire Street, W.1 23. In a Bath Teashop 24. To My Son Aged Eight 25. On a Portrait of a Deaf Man 26. Death at Leamington Read 27. Christmas