I’m really just discovering Philip Larkin as a poet, though I memorised This be the Verse a few years ago just for the pleasure of shocking the other girls at my boarding school. But he is a super poet, he truly is, with a uniquely English perspective on things. At the moment my favourite amongst his poems is the wonderful High Windows with all of its sad ambiguity. And here it is.
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Wow, Larkin is one of my favourite poets. I am a huge fan of his work. He was too shy to do public readings/recordings (of which there are only a handful). My other bestie Betjeman once coaxed him into spending a few hours with him up in Hull and managed to take along a film crew to film them together. I had been sdearching fr it for a long time. The program was recently repeated as part of the BBC Poetry Season and can now be found on Youtube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTdDS05x6d0
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Next year is the twenty-fifth anniversary of since of death and the Larkin Society will hosting a series of events. Here is the page to it: www.philiplarkin.com/events/larkin25.html
Rehan, you really impress me. You're tastes are so like mine...and you write beautifully. :-) Thanks for those links.
ReplyDeleteHeehee, thank'ee, I write with serious typos (see above). You taking the piss? I have been wanting to say how your blog has really been a Rosetta Stone to me in blog discoveries. What Harrison would term 'a sort of pricktease of the soul.' Write on my dear.
ReplyDeleteNot at all! I really meant generally. Besides, I always ignore typos. I make enough of those myself. :-)) Thank you for your wonderful and generous comment.
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