Blogs about: Philip Larkin
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The Old Fools By Philip Larkin
What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose It’s more grown-up when your mouth hangs open and drools, And you keep on pissing yourself, and ca… more →
Poems
Thursday Tracklist: 7 Songs About Sex
wrote 22 hours ago: Let’s get filthy. Let’s get graphic. Here’s the tracklist you’ve been waiting for (or not): six tota … more →
Barn owl? or Sex and death?
wrote 1 day ago: Early in The Sense of an Ending, the high school class discusses a poem by Ted Hughes, which Tony in … more →
Becoming Dracula
wrote 2 days ago: I turn a laundry basket on its side, It will serve for a coffin I fill my chalice with Ribena, And … more →
Photography: the accident that pricks and bruises
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wrote 4 days ago: There’s a feature on the Guardian website (The power of photography: time, mortality and memor … more →
One half my life is not reading books
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wrote 4 days ago: I like to consider May instead of January as the beginning of the new year because of Philip Larkin’ … more →
Love Again, Reprise
wrote 6 days ago: Love again? Well yes eventually it did turn out to be. It came and blew me apart good and true And w … more →
Philip Larkin
wrote 1 week ago: Philip Larkin I sometimes forget that I’ve published on Larkin – dogged and devoted eighteenth-c … more →
the roy davids collection: poem manuscripts I covet
wrote 1 week ago: “There are people like Senhor José everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their … more →
Faint.
wrote 1 week ago: My body is lighter than air, I am sure I will float, Through the window And into a clear, cloudless … more →
Its in the air....
wrote 1 week ago: The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough Is having the blind persistence To upset another … more →
End of Weekend Poetry
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wrote 1 week ago: Here is my final poem! It is a bit of a downer, but I can’t resist the heavy satire in this Ph … more →
"Talking in Bed" by Philip Larkin
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wrote 1 week ago: Talking in bed ought to be easiest, Lying together there goes back so far, An emblem of two people b … more →
"Unkind things": the letters of Kingsley Amis
wrote 2 weeks ago: In a letter to me not long before his death, touching on the role played in the publication of his 1 … more →
The Poets and Their Day Jobs
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Thoughts on the real day jobs of famous poets? … more →
Calamity
wrote 2 weeks ago: This Be The Verse They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill y … more →
From Dissections To Depositions, Poets' Second Jobs
wrote 2 weeks ago: By David Orr “No man but a blockhead,” Samuel Johnson famously observed, “ever wro … more →
Between walls and heads
wrote 2 weeks ago: FROM SEQUENCE 2013 May 2013 In The Genealogy of Morals (as translated by Francis Golffing), Nietzsch … more →
Pregnant by a Malignant Narcissist
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wrote 2 weeks ago: I will first explore and discuss ‘Pregnant by a Malignant Narcissist‘ and then move on t … more →
May's Featured Author: Edmund Crispin
wrote 2 weeks ago: This May, we’ll be celebrating an author who really encapsulates the message of our project at … more →
