“In a 1962 radio interview he told teenage questioners that he could not write about ‘abstract things’, preferring places and faces. Philip Larkin wrote of Betjeman’s work, ‘how much more interesting & worth writing about (his) subjects are than most other modern poets, I mean, whether so-and-so achieves some metaphysical inner unity is not really so interesting as the overbuilding of rural Middlesex.’”

Contents include:
- Late Flowering Lust
- False Security
- Hunter Trials
- Seaside Golf
- Norfolk
- Youth and Age on Beaulieu River
- A Subaltern’s Love Song
- Business Women
- Song of a Night-Club Proprietress (AKA ‘Sun & Fun’)
- The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
- Our Padre
- Diary of a Church Mouse
- Indoor Games Near Newbury
- How to Get on in Society
- Remorse
- Sunday in Ireland
- Reproof  Deserved (After the Lecture)
- Middlesex
- In Memoriam Walter Ramsden
- Eunice
- The Last of Her Order (‘Felixstowe’)
- Matlock Bath
- Trebetherick
- Harrow-on-the-Hill
- The Arrest of Oscar Wilde
- Devonshire Street, W1
- In a Bath Teashop
- The Irish Unionist’s Farewell
- A Lincolnshire Church
- Henley on Thames
- In the Public Gardens

Bonus Tracks read by Famous Voices & Admirers
- To My Son Aged Eight - read by Dylan Thomas (includes introduction to Betjeman to New York audiences)
- On a Portrait of a Deaf Man - read by Dylan Thomas
- Death at Leamington - read by Robert Donat
- Christmas - read by Robert Donat