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The Guardian view on Andy Burnham: political poetry must become governing prose | Editorial
By EditorialLarkin, Harrison and Shakespeare shaped Labour’s leader. Now comes the harder task: turning language into lasting change
#AndyBurnham #Labour #TonyHarrison #Politics #Labourpartyleadership #Poetry #PhilipLarkin #TheGuardian #Editorial
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The Guardian view on Andy Burnham: political poetry must become governing prose | Editorial
By EditorialLarkin, Harrison and Shakespeare shaped Labour’s leader. Now comes the harder task: turning language into lasting change
#AndyBurnham #Labour #TonyHarrison #Politics #Labourpartyleadership #Poetry #PhilipLarkin #TheGuardian #Editorial
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A quotation from Philip Larkin
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and having people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can’t quite name.Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High WindowsMore about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility
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Alom ontvouwen knoppen zich,
zo groen, een soort verdriet is dat.
De bomen
https://judyelf.nl/de-bomen
#poëzie #PhilipLarkin #TheTrees #vertalingen #lente #nieuwleven #sterfelijkheid #bomen #mensen #groen #jaarringen -
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
Ooteoote-serie Poetry in motion, 553: Philip Larkin, This be the verse
https://bit.ly/PIM553-larkin
#poëzie #animatie #Boekenweek #PhilipLarkin #generaties #doorgeven #ouders #kinderen #ellende -
Toad Work
Recently I have been enjoying the British television series “Down Cemetery Road.” It is a brilliant mystery drama with first-rate acting, and it can be found on Apple TV and Amazon Prime in Canada.
I discovered the source of the show’s title only when one of the key characters, played by Emma Thompson, recited some of Philip Larkin’s poem “Toads Revisited” which mentions Cemetery Road.
brian.gratwicke, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsI found the poem on The Poetry Hour website and read it through three times until I felt as though I was in tune with the author’s meaning. I was especially taken by the last stanza which reads:
When the lights come on at four
Two Toads from Randy Robertson via Flickr
At the end of another year?
Give me your arm, old toad;
Help me down Cemetery Road.As I write this post, it is 4:05 PM, and the sun has just gone down behind the buildings that I see from my windows. My blinds have closed automatically already; they are set to close at half an hour before sunset. The lights that my neighbours have placed in the community gardens have been on all day, but the Christmas lights that I have strung around my patio came on at 3:40. Not four o’clock exactly, but pretty close to the poem’s imaginings.
The verses refer to working people of various kinds, and I wondered what was meant by “toad work” so I Googled it. This is how Google AI explains it:
Toads from Karen Arnold via Public Domain Pictures“The toad work” in Philip Larkin’s poem “Toads” symbolizes the heavy, unromantic, and burdensome nature of daily work and societal obligations, a persistent, ugly pressure that squats on one’s life, forcing the speaker to trade days of freedom for money and a pension, even as he grudgingly recognizes his own “toad-like” participation in this system. It’s a metaphor for the monotonous 9-to-5 grind that stifles personal passions, contrasting with the dream of living by one’s wits, yet the poem concludes that both internal and external “toads” (work and creative duty) are inescapable, says Interesting Literature and All Poetry.
My days of toad work are over, but the lights still come on at around 4 PM in winter here, and I enjoy them. It would be nice to have someone to take my arm as my aging body takes walks, but I am grateful that I have the strength to walk alone.
I heartily recommend both the TV show and the poem. They will give you lots to think about.
#aging #christmas #downCemeteryRoad #lights #nature #philipLarkin #poetry #sunset #television #toadsRevisited #winter #writing
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“Requiem”, above – Robert Louis Stevenson’s self-composed epitaph – provides the title for Philip Larkin’s poem “This Be the Verse”. Daniel Bosch compares the two epitaphic fictions in the PARIS REVIEW
4/5
#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #RobertLouisStevenson #PhilipLarkin #poem #poetry #epitaph
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“Requiem”, above – Robert Louis Stevenson’s self-composed epitaph – provides the title for Philip Larkin’s poem “This Be the Verse”. Daniel Bosch compares the two epitaphic fictions in the PARIS REVIEW
4/5
#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #RobertLouisStevenson #PhilipLarkin #poem #poetry #epitaph
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🎵Jazz tracks mentioned by poet Philip Larkin in his famous collection of reviews, All What Jazz #jazz #philiplarkin #music #playlist #Spotify #poetry #larkin #poem
🎧 Click here to listen to the playlist 👉 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2AFE5cnK4h3FDvGCtnqcEE?si=q28-NWk1Syy2qPNGtXlcHg&pi=e-B7QlTkzxQV6D
www.speckled.band
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This Be The Ditty
They buck you up, your mum and dad
They really mean to, yes they do.
They fill you with their malts, they’re glad
Stir in some extra just for you#ThisBeTheVerse
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This Be The Ditty
They buck you up, your mum and dad
They really mean to, yes they do.
They fill you with their malts, they’re glad
Stir in some extra just for you#ThisBeTheVerse
#PhilipLarkin
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They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had. And add some extra, just for you. … #PhilipLarkin via #AnneClark
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The punk rock, alt rock and indie music on my Fire Red Sky newsletter takes a break* for some books in the sun
*not counting Punk USA and its oral history of Lookout! Records
https://open.substack.com/pub/tangleofwires/p/holiday-reading
#music #punk #PunkRock #PopPunk #France #Toulouse #JackKerouac #GeorgesSimenon #GKChesterton #RohintonMistry #SadieJones #PhilipLarkin #Descendents #KevinPrested #LookoutRecords #GreenDay #FireRedSky #newsletter #newsletters
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The punk rock, alt rock and indie music on my Fire Red Sky newsletter takes a break* for some books in the sun
*not counting Punk USA and its oral history of Lookout! Records
https://open.substack.com/pub/tangleofwires/p/holiday-reading
#music #punk #PunkRock #PopPunk #France #Toulouse #JackKerouac #GeorgesSimenon #GKChesterton #RohintonMistry #SadieJones #PhilipLarkin #Descendents #KevinPrested #LookoutRecords #GreenDay #FireRedSky #newsletter #newsletters
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How long should it take to answer a Whatsapp? About a fortnight | Nell Frizzell https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/04/how-long-should-it-take-to-answer-a-whatsapp-about-a-fortnight #Mobilephones #PhilipLarkin #Lifeandstyle #Socialmedia #WhatsApp
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WHAT a PIECE of absolute racist SHIT!!!
#SocialistWorker
#PhilipLarkin 🤮🤮, 💩#racist, #bigot and so called 'poet'
https://socialistworker.co.uk/socialist-review-archive/philip-larkin-racist-bigot-and-poet/ -
WHAT a PIECE of absolute racist SHIT!!!
#SocialistWorker
#PhilipLarkin 🤮🤮, 💩#racist, #bigot and so called 'poet'
https://socialistworker.co.uk/socialist-review-archive/philip-larkin-racist-bigot-and-poet/ -
“Requiem”, above – Robert Louis Stevenson’s self-composed epitaph – provides the title for Philip Larkin’s most famous #poem, “This Be the Verse”. Daniel Bosch compares the two epitaphic fictions in the Paris Review
#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #RobertLouisStevenson #PhilipLarkin
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“Requiem”, above – Robert Louis Stevenson’s self-composed epitaph – provides the title for Philip Larkin’s most famous #poem, “This Be the Verse”. Daniel Bosch compares the two epitaphic fictions in the Paris Review
#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #RobertLouisStevenson #PhilipLarkin
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Sooo happy to see this in my Home feed, seeing that Lovecraft is nearly as uncritically worshipped by white people as superturd #PhilipLarkin.
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Sooo happy to see this in my Home feed, seeing that Lovecraft is nearly as uncritically worshipped by white people as superturd #PhilipLarkin.
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The Geology of Misery: What #PhilipLarkin and #TedLasso (and Science) Tell Us About #Trauma. #MentalHealth #psychology https://lithub.com/the-geology-of-misery-what-philip-larkin-and-ted-lasso-and-science-tell-us-about-trauma/
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I know nothing about #TimWells but his referencing of #Reggae #KunFuFilms #PunkRock and #WorkingClass culture in #EverythingCrash suggests his background is similar to mine. His left wing polemics and sense of humour further endears him to me. If that wasn't enough, where else can you read a poem that references poet #PhilipLarkin and infamous #ClassWar anarchist #IanBone ? Marvelous!
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Barry Wilkinson. Philip Larkin, July 1973 (Radio Times) #PhilipLarkin #Poetry
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i just finished watching s3 ep11. twice in a row…
and oh. my. god. only now when the end is nigh they bring in #mom #mother!? and “a drawer without a home”!? and i found myself #sobbing (when did it last happen to me?!) soon after #jamietartt’s win!? then #coachbeard’s talking at the door!? and why is it so hard (heartbreaking) to watch #tedlasso himself cry… #television #tv #appletvplus #homecinema #heimkino #thisbetheverse #philiplarkin #poem #poetry https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse
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Whether it's #Morrissey, #PhilipLarkin or #MattHealy the amount white people will bend over backwards to forgive their favourite racists is extraordinary.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-1975-matty-healy-ice-spice-apology-1234721163/
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Whether it's #Morrissey, #PhilipLarkin or #MattHealy the amount white people will bend over backwards to forgive their favourite racists is extraordinary.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-1975-matty-healy-ice-spice-apology-1234721163/
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@peachfront
"It will be Spring soon"
"It will be Spring soon"#BirdsongProject #PhilipLarkin #SamMendes #Poetry #poem https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hNZF7QGO01I
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@peachfront
"It will be Spring soon"
"It will be Spring soon"#BirdsongProject #PhilipLarkin #SamMendes #Poetry #poem https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hNZF7QGO01I
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'They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And call you Thor and Maverick too.'
Still, I liked the idea of calling a newborn Chucky - though then you should give the baby a second & third name too, like Ulysses & Patroclus; as In 'Chucky U.P.' Smith/Jones/Whatever.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jan/11/would-you-call-your-child-maverick-or-thor-the-improbable-rise-of-baby-name-maximalism
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The Guardian view on Philip Larkin at 100: a lasting gift https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/25/the-guardian-view-on-philip-larkin-at-100-a-lasting-gift?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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#7books
(these all got to me before I was 21, and kind of soaked into me)
Jane Eyre #CharlotteBronte
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #DouglasAdams
The Catcher in the Rye #JDSalinger
Rebecca #DaphneDuMaurier
Beyond The Glass #AntoniaWhite
Good Morning, Midnight #JeanRhys
The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (selected by #PhilipLarkin - my aunt gave it to me for my 16th birthday) -
#7books
(these all got to me before I was 21, and kind of soaked into me)
Jane Eyre #CharlotteBronte
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #DouglasAdams
The Catcher in the Rye #JDSalinger
Rebecca #DaphneDuMaurier
Beyond The Glass #AntoniaWhite
Good Morning, Midnight #JeanRhys
The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (selected by #PhilipLarkin - my aunt gave it to me for my 16th birthday)
