Joan Hunter Dunn beauty, he fell in love, and composed a 44-line poem fantasising about them being engaged and playing tennis together in Aldershot: The poem was published in Cyril Connolly's "Horizon" magazine in February 1941. Betjeman invited her to lunch, and presented her with a copy of the magazine containing the poem, begging her forgiveness. In an interview in "The Sunday Times" magazine in 1965, illustrated with photographs by Lord Snowdon, she said: "It was such a marvellous break from the monotony of the war. It really was remarkable the way he imagined it all. Actually, all that about the subaltern, and
Bruce Hunter (poet) 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 Festival. His poetry collection "Coming Home From Home" (2000), was short-listed