Type: Poetry Reading
Performed by; Suggs
Poet: John Betjeman
Event: World Book Fair
Location: Trafalgar Square, London
Year: 2011

Enjoy poetry delivered with personality. Suggs’s storytelling instincts, comic timing, and emotional directness illuminate John Betjeman’s wit and affection for ordinary places and people. Suggs, the unmistakable frontman of the British band "Madness", reads this iconic Betjeman poem and creates a striking moment in pop culture history. Betjeman’s poems celebrate the quirks, nostalgia, and gentle melancholy of everyday British life and these same themes run through his songs like "Our House".