In December 1965, Sir John Betjeman wrote to his publisher Jock Murray ‘I seem to have lost some of my manuscript poems as yet unpublished, or rather the typescripts of them.’ Dr Kevin Gardner has claim to be the foremost contemporary Betjeman scholar and has been and remains assiduous in finding unpublished Betjeman verse. Our former poet laureate remains one of Britain’s foremost and most loved poets. Who does not know of such lines as ‘Come on ye bombs and fall on Slough’, ‘Phone for the fish knives Norman’ and the celebrated Miss Joan Hunter Dunn- ‘furnish"d and burnish’d by Aldershot sun’. Having already discovered in the BBC archives a whole collection of poems that Betjeman wrote for broadcast and published by Continuum as Poems in the Porch, here Dr Gardner has made new discoveries in places as distant as Christ Church, Oxford and Waco Texas. These poems which are witty and ooze with charm, will be seized upon by the numerous Betjeman fans worldwide and maybe bring a new generation of readers to his admirers.