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The Larkin trail marker on Sharp St, Hull, off Newland Ave where Larkin shopped, mentions MCMXIV with its ‘dark-clothed children at play’. Opposite the marker is a 1917 Roll of Honour naming the sons of Sharp St serving (and some dying) in the Great War. Full of poppies now.
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Today is Treefest at Pier Street Pop-Up Space in the Fruit Market, a festival inspiring people to value, protect and care for trees. So here's a young Philip Larkin enjoying an apple tree!
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Jeremy Wikeley’s sharp analysis of The Less Deceived, a fuller version of his PLS commemorative Zoom early last December
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Ah Larkin, he was often gloomy but on this November evening his evocation of summer came to mind;
“White lilacs bowed
Lost lanes of Queen Anne’s lace
And that high builded cloud
Moving at summer’s pace”
Queen Anne’s Lace is also known as less appealingly as Cow Parsley🙂
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Spurn revisited.
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Philip Larkin on Stevie Smith's poetry:
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We mark the recent death of sometime #Hull resident, poet Douglas Dunn, with this 1972 picture of his house 4 Terry St, with the car (his?) parked outside, proving what he says in his poem 'Removal from Terry Street': "There is no grass in Terry Street." @PLSoc @hull_libraries
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Ach, what a loss. I lived down the road from Terry Street when I was a student at Hull, and he was so fondly remembered there. ‘I wish him grass’
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Imagine hearing this for the first time. The song Philip Larkin thought was probably the most beautiful in the world.
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I was sad to read of the death of the poet Douglas Dunn. A quiet voice, always a resonant one, probably still best known for his first mature poetry collection 'Terry Street', 1969, but 'Elegies', 1985, stands one of the great collections of the late 20th Century.
The preface is written by Brenda Moon (Larkin’s former deputy at Hull) and the essay was first presented at the annual winter meeting of the Friends of Edinburgh University Library on 2nd December 1986. A brilliant self-deprecating tribute to Larkin.
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R.I.P. Douglas Dunn 1942 - 2026
Very sad news about the passing of poet Douglas Dunn. He wrote many great poems in and about Hull. As tribute, here’s the film @PoetDeanwilson6 made about the him.
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Really pleased to have this photo of Larkin's statue (in Hull Paragon station) in the exhibition. Looking forward to going - it's on until January.
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How Many Times Did Houdini Appear In Hull?
Our legendary escapolgist correspondent Angus Young reports on a new book about our city and the world famous daredevil.
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‘This be the verse’ in Ted Lasso and elsewhere. Larkin’s ‘signature rock album’. fictionhorizon.com/the-poem-…
Worth a read! As always with Henry Oliver. Larkin’s most controversial publication.
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Larkin, laundry and insurance. An insight from the Insurance Museum. insurance.museum/history-sni…
