John Betjeman
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 39 years ago |
Date of birth | August 28,1906 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | London |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | May 19,1984 |
Died | Trebetherick |
United Kingdom | |
Buried | St Enodoc Church, Trebetherick, United Kingdom |
Albums | Late Flowering Love |
Betjeman's Banana Blush | |
Job | Poet |
Screenwriter | |
Broadcaster | |
Education | Magdalen College |
University of Oxford | |
Marlborough College | |
Movies/Shows | Summoned by Bells |
A Passion for Churches | |
Metro-Land | |
Railways for Ever | |
John Betjeman Goes by Train | |
Metro‑Land | |
Place of burial | St Enodoc Church, Trebetherick, United Kingdom |
Spouse | Penelope Chetwode |
Children | Candida Lycett Green |
Son Paul | |
Paul Betjeman | |
Grandchildren | Imogen Lycett Green |
Endellion Lycett Green | |
John Lycett Green | |
Lucy Lycett Green | |
David Lycett Green | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 449844 |
Trains and Buttered Toast: Selected Radio Talks
Betjeman's England
The best of Betjeman
Lovely Bits of Old England: John Betjeman at The Telegraph
Tennis Whites and Teacakes
First and last loves
Slough
Ghastly Good Taste: Or, A Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture
Betjeman's Cornwall
nip in the air
A few late chrysanthemums
Church poems
Betjeman's Best British Churches
London's historic railway stations
Continual dew
Betjeman's Britain: Poems from the BBC Archives
Letters
Victorian and Edwardian London from old photographs
Illustrated Poems of John Betjeman
The Best Loved Poems of John Betjeman
The City of London Churches
A First Class Collection
An Oxford University Chest
Sweet Songs of Zion: Selected Radio Talks
Cornwall: A Shell Guide
A pictorial history of English architecture
A Ring of Bells: Poems
Collins pocket guide to English parish churches
Betjeman's London
Selected Poems
Victorian and Edwardian Cornwall from Old Photographs
Archie and the Strict Baptists
1926 to 1951
Letters: 1951 to 1984
English, Scottish and Welsh landscape
Slick but not streamlined
Mount Zion: Or In Touch with the Infinite
Still Sidmouth
English love poems
John Betjeman Letters
Coming Home
Betjeman in Miniature: Selected Poems of Sir John Betjeman
Victorian and Edwardian Oxford from Old Photographs
In praise of churches
John Betjeman: Coming Home : an Anthology of His Prose 1920-1977
Banana Blush
Betjeman: Poets for Pleasure
Betjeman Reads Betjeman
John Betjeman Collection
Summoned by Bells
Metro‑land
John Betjeman Life story
Sir John Betjeman CBE was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, helping to save St Pancras railway station from demolition.
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Simon Armitage pens poem on cancer pill
... He declared this piece was exactly the kind of project he had in mind when he when took on the job, which was previously undertaken by Carole Ann Duffy, Sir John Betjeman and Alfred, Lord Tennyson...
Simon Armitage pens poem on cancer pill
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has had his latest work micro-engraved on to The Face of a cancer Pill .
The Poem , entitled Finishing It, is his second official offering in the new role and was commissioned by
It's intended "to promote and celebrate" The Work being done for the advancement of cancer treatment.
The writer said he's "optimistic about the potential of medicine and of poetry. "
Armitage's words were skilfully inscribed on to a 20mm x 10mm plaster-based replica cancer treatment tablet by micro-engraver Graham Short and Will be displayed in the new Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery when it opens next year.
'Common Ground 'The Yorkshireman told the BBC although the arts and science are two completely different fields, there is "a lot of Common Ground there" with regard to "creative thinking" and figuring out life.
"I'm not a scientist by any means but I imagine what goes on in those labs is as much about trying to imagine a future," he said.
"So I started thinking about the idea of writing on a tablet and we associate That phrase with the Old Testament and the idea of the tablets given to Moses That were supposedly written by God's finger.
"I then started making The Connection between a cure for cancer, miracles, and the fact That I couldn't deliver either of those in a poem. "
He added: "But what I Can offer, in The Shape of a poem, and in The Shape of this little Pill - this little Magic Bullet - is a kind of hope. "
Armitage was personally affected by the disease after his friend, who was "very much involved in poetry", lost his battle with bone marrow cancer.
Before his death, his mate spoke in glowing terms about The Treatment he'd received at London's Royal Marsden hospital - a close partner of the ICR.
"That 's one of the reasons why I'm very happy to get involved in this," said The Poet .
As well as stressing the need for "emotional hope" in both laboratories and libraries, the wordsmith noted the engraving of poems is "a really rich tradition in English Literature . "
He pointed to the Romantic poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake , who made etchings and engravings of his work, as an example.
"Blake was a great visionary and I think there is something visionary about this project. "
Graham Short engraved Simon Armitage 's poem on to gypsum-based powder print.The 56-year-old was appointed Poet Laureate back in May and said it's been "really exciting" so far.
He declared this piece was "exactly the kind of project" he had in mind when he when took on The Job , which was previously undertaken by Carole Ann Duffy, Sir John Betjeman and Alfred, Lord Tennyson .
"This is about a subject That affects most families at some time and I'm very happy That The Poem 's used by The Institute in whatever way they want," he said.
"I've only been doing this Job - if you Can call it That - for a couple of months now but this feels like The Work I should be doing as a public poet. "
'Exquisite precision'Professor Paul Workman , chief executive of The Institute of Cancer Research, London, believes The Tiny piece of poetry is symbolic of The Work being done under the microscope by some of the country's top scientists.
"Simon Armitage 's poem engraved on a Pill perfectly conveys the exquisite precision of The Work the ICR's scientists Will be conducting in our new Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery,"
"The aim is to create a new generation of cancer medicines," he added.
Speaking over The Phone from the new research centre, Armitage concluded "it seems inevitable" this kind of research would soon put an end to cancer as we know it.
"In my lifetime, it's one of those things That people talk about - 'Will we ever see a cure for cancer?'
"And now, talking to somebody earlier here, they were slightly reframing the question in terms of - 'Can we Can we find a way of managing cancer and living with cancer? In a way That 's happened with other ailments and illnesses', and so on.
"So it might be That there's a philosophical aspect to this, as well as a medical one. "
Finishing It by Simon ArmitageI Can 't configure
a tablet
chiselled by God's finger
or forge
a scrawled prescription,
but here's an inscription, formed
on the small white dot
of its own
full stop,
the sugared Pill
of a poem, one sentence
That speaks ill
of illness itself, Bullet
with cancer's name
carved brazenly on it.
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Source of news: bbc.com