Fuck Yeah Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin, the Poet with attitude.

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A whole album inspired by Larkin’s Whitsun Weddings book of poetry. 

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Why did I dream of you last night? Now morning is pushing back hair with grey light Memories strike home, like slaps in the face; Raised on elbow, I stare at the pale fog beyond the window. So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: - Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.

Why Did I Dream of You Last Night,  Philip Larkin (via aninsufferableknowitall)

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Church Going by P. Larkin

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Larkin's obituary

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Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin; edited by Anthony Thwaite – book review | Books | The Observer

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Via http://www2.hull.ac.uk/images/philliplarkin_library_news_v_340.jpg

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Talking in Bed by Philip Larkin

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Talking in bed ought to be easiest, Lying together there goes back so far, An emblem of two people being honest. Yet more and more time passes silently. Outside, the wind’s incomplete unrest Builds and disperses clouds in the sky, And dark towns heap up on the horizon. None of this cares for us. Nothing shows why At this unique distance from isolation It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.

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In search of the real Philip Larkin

Twenty-five years after Philip Larkin's death, the view of the English poet as a misogynist appears unfair. A new book of letters to his long-time partner Monica Jones reveals a caring if anguished lover, while those who knew him well remember a gentle – and very witty – man

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Would so love to see this but UK only :(

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Betty Mackereth and Philip Larkin working together at Hull University library.

From the BBC