30 MARCH 1956, Page 15

GLOUCESTERSHIRE'S LAUREATE

SIN—A year or two ago, after I had recited several of F. W. Harvey's poems to a village hall in Gloucestershire, an old salmon• fisher- man rose to his feet to ask, 'Tell 1, be the poet Harvey still in the flesh?' I was glad to tell him, as I am Mr. John Betjeman and readers of his 'City and Suburban,' that he is, and that furthermore he continues to write poetry where 'the Forest' overlooks the Severn.— Yours faithfully,

BRIAN WATERS

1 Bowling Green Lane, Cirencester