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“Philip Larkin at 100” presented by Bruce Coffin with Christopher Sweeney

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Philip Larkin at 100: A Poetry Reading in Celebration

of the Life and Work of Philip Larkin

(1922 – 1985)

 

Poems to be read by Bruce Coffin and Christopher Sweeney include: At Grass, Next, Please, The Explosion, A Study of Reading Habits, The Trees, Aubade, We met at the end of the party…, An Arundel Tomb, and many more.

 

From Selected Letters of Philip Larkin 1940–1985, ed., Philip Larkin and Anthony Thwaite, and Further Requirements, ed., Anthony Thwaite.

“. . . Personally, I’d as soon venture forth without rhyme as without boots in a meadow of snakes.” (SL)