{"id":215,"date":"2008-06-29T11:05:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T11:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/?p=215"},"modified":"2023-12-16T11:32:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T11:32:41","slug":"betjeman-at-dawlish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dawlish&#8217; by John Betjeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Dawlish-seafront-railway-station.jpg\"  rel=\"lightbox[roadtrip]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-216 aligncenter\" title=\"Dawlish seafront - railway station\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Dawlish-seafront-railway-station.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Dawlish-seafront-railway-station.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Dawlish-seafront-railway-station-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Early on a summer Sunday morning &#8211; Dawlish railway station and sea wall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAWLISH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>by John Betjeman (1906 &#8211; 1984)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bird-watching colonels on the old sea wall,<br \/>\nDown here at Dawlish where the slow trains crawl:<br \/>\nLow tide lifting, on a shingle shore,<br \/>\nLong-sunk islands from the sea once more:<br \/>\nRed cliffs rising where the wet sands run,<br \/>\nGulls reflecting in the sharp spring sun;<br \/>\nPink-washed plaster by a sheltered patch,<br \/>\nIlex shadows upon velvet thatch:<br \/>\nWhat interiors those names suggest!<br \/>\nQueen of lodgings in the warm south-west&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 The Estate of Sir John Betjeman and John Murray (Publishers). Reprinted by permission.<\/p>\n<p>Photo \u00a9 Angela Williams, 2008<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *<\/p>\n<p><strong>LINKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnbetjeman.com\/index.html\">&#8211; John Betjeman contributed work to many publications and the poem &#8216;Dawlish&#8217; was not published in his books. <strong>Find out more on the Bibliography page at johnbetjeman.com.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Where the slow trains crawl&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[55,4,56],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devon-2","tag-dawlish","tag-devon","tag-john-betjeman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}