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PhilipLarkinSociety retweeted
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.
PhilipLarkinSociety retweeted
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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PhilipLarkinSociety retweeted
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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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PhilipLarkinSociety retweeted
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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PhilipLarkinSociety retweeted
The new edition of Roger Lewis's biography of Charles Hawtrey has an excellent additional chapter where (amongst other things) he maps some of the individuals in PL's poems to the Carry On team. Hawtrey is Mr. Bleaney, of course.
PhilipLarkinSociety retweeted
The Humber Estuary at Sunset! 'Your petalled head of flames Continuously exploding. Heat is the echo of your Gold.' Solar by Philip Larkin. @PoetryDayUK @PLSoc 🔥☀️#Hull
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This was the brilliant Zoom talk by @PLSoc trustee Phil Pullen on 9 August, Larkin’s birthday. Well worth a listen🙂🎤🎧📚
youtu.be/61rr3rEiGsg?si=xZec…
PhilipLarkinSociety retweeted
I think this comes from 'The Whitsun Weddings'? I could get into Larkin in his poetry of the humdrum and ordinary.
PhilipLarkinSociety retweeted
Philip Larkin was born in Coventry #OTD 9 August 1922.
'That Whitsun, I was late getting away:
Not till about
One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday
Did my three-quarters-empty train pull out,
All windows down, all cushions hot, all sense
Of being in a hurry gone.'
His statue in Hull Station.
PhilipLarkinSociety retweeted
Philip Larkin, poet and #Hull University Librarian was born #OTD 1922. Here he is in 1984, a year before he died. @Hull_Museums @hull_libraries
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"Larkin's Odes" by @victoriamoul, probably the best pieice on Philip Larkin you will read this year:
open.substack.com/pub/vamoul…
PhilipLarkinSociety retweeted
Church Going presented by Giles Fraser on BBC Radio 4 right now. share.google/k4nIagte8JIHalb… @PLSoc
PhilipLarkinSociety retweeted
"Annus Mirabilis" gets a predictable call out in the New Yorker's review of "Lady C: the long, sensational life of Lady Chatterley's Lover". Otis Redding's "Try a little tenderness" was also influenced. Hm? @PLSoc What Did “Lady Chatterley” Liberate?
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PhilipLarkinSociety retweeted
And I her son, though summer—born
And summer—loving, none the less
Am easier when the leaves are gone
Too often summer days appear
Emblems of perfect happiness
I can’t confront: I must await
A time less bold, less rich, less clear:
An autumn more appropriate.
Philip Larkin
PhilipLarkinSociety retweeted
Today we mark Winifred Holtby's birthday, born at Rudston #OTD 1898. She was a novelist, journalist, feminist and campaigner. We hold her archive which was left to the People of #Hull. @Hullccnews @hull_libraries @Hull_Museums
