Stanley J. Forrest

Stanley John Forrest (1904–1977) was a Church of England priest and popular poet. He was a friend and collaborator of John Betjeman. Forrest was vicar of St John's Church, Watford from 1954 to 1961.

Works

• The Church in Reconstruction (1945)
• Anglican Noah's Ark (1947)
• Buzzards at Play (1947)
• What the Vicar Likes (1952)
• Time for a Rhyme (1954)
• What's the Use? (1955)
• Chapter and Verse (1959)
• A Town Parson's Day (1960)
• Orders in Orbit (1962)
• Our Man at St. Withit's (1964)
• Verse from the Vestry (1966)
• Parson's Play-pen (1968)
• Saints and Sinods (1971)
• The Church Bizarre: Light Verse for Heavy Weather (1973)

References

• An Affectionate Portrait
• The Anglican Poetry of S.J. Forrest, by Richard J. Mammana

External links

• Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury