Collected Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, British & Irish
Cover of the book Collected Poems by John Betjeman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Author: John Betjeman ISBN: 9781466878280
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: August 19, 2014
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: John Betjeman
ISBN: 9781466878280
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: August 19, 2014
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.
--from "Slough"

When the beloved English poet John Betjeman's Collected Poems first appeared in 1958, it made publishing history, and has now sold more than two million copies to a steadily expanding readership. Betjeman is almost unique among poets in that his work appeals equally strongly to those who love poetry and to those who rarely read it. This volume, the first American edition of the Collected Poems, incorporates all the poems that Betjeman published after the original Collected Poems and includes a new foreword by Britain's poet laureate, Andrew Motion.

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Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.
--from "Slough"

When the beloved English poet John Betjeman's Collected Poems first appeared in 1958, it made publishing history, and has now sold more than two million copies to a steadily expanding readership. Betjeman is almost unique among poets in that his work appeals equally strongly to those who love poetry and to those who rarely read it. This volume, the first American edition of the Collected Poems, incorporates all the poems that Betjeman published after the original Collected Poems and includes a new foreword by Britain's poet laureate, Andrew Motion.

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