Joan Hunter Dunn the engagement is sheer fantasy, but my life was very like the poem." She married Harold Wycliffe Jackson, a civil servant in the Ministry of Information, in January 1945, at St Mark's Church in Farnborough. Betjeman was invited, but was unable to attend. The poem was republished in Betjeman's book "New Bats in Old Belfries" in 1945, and was later mentioned in Flanders and Swann's "Tried by Centre Court". Joan Jackson accompanied her husband to Malaya after the war, where he ran a radio station. They then lived in Singapore, before returning to the UK in 1957. Harold worked for
Bruce Hunter (poet) the Writers' Union of Canada, and the Sierra Club of Canada. Bruce Hunter (poet) Bruce Hunter (1952) is a Canadian poet, fiction and non-fiction author. Bruce Hunter was born in Calgary, Alberta. He is the author of seven books, five of them poetry, as well as a collection of linked short stories and a novel. In 2010, his seventh book, "Two O'Clock Creek - Poems New and Selected" won the Acorn-Plantos Peoples' Poetry Award. In 2009, Bruce's novel, "In the Bear's House", won the Canadian Rockies prize selected from over 100 books from 10 countries at the Banff Mountain Book