Seeking Betjeman Country
By Rehan Qayoom
For Immediate Release.
London – United Kingdom. 1 January 2007. Rehan Qayoom takes us on an excursion through the London immortalised by the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His language, being both brilliantly nostalgic and entertainingly à la mode, has the warmth and lyricism of the late Poet Laureate. It introduces us to the relish of a time long gone into the footnotes of twentieth century social histories with our feet firmly grounded in the twenty-first.
‘John Betjeman may be the only poet who has ever ranged so comprehensively across the family budget. Who else immortalised “Banana Blush” and railways and small churches and Woolworths and the Co-op ad the Regent Palace? He is certain, now to be the last.’
(Frank Delaney).
Rehan Qayoom was born in the UK in 1979, he read English Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is involved in many independent literary projects. His translations of many eastern poets have won him international acclaim and his work is published in periodicals and anthologies. His book Seeking Betjeman country was written in commemoration of the hundredth birthday of the Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, (1906 - 1985). The forthcoming book will be about poets buried in the Magnificent Seven London cemeteries.
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