In this episode we talk to Beverley based poet Chris Sewart in his second appearance on Tiny in All That Air, and Phil Pullen, trustee of the PLS, who regular listeners will be familiar with from a number of previous episodes. We talk about Chris's poetry and his upcoming performance as the 'warm up' for Roger McGough in Beverley next year (details below). We also discuss Phil's new project for the PLS You-Tube account documenting the Larkin Trail. We end the episode considering three poems from High Windows- The Explosion, Livings and Forget What Did- as we look ahead to the 50th anniversary of the publication of High Windows in 2024 and the PLS Conference in March at the University of Hull.
Larkin poems mentioned:
Annus Mirabilis, Livings, Forget What Did, The Explosion, To
The Sea, Going Going, The Building, Aubade, The Old Fools, The Trees, Solar,Cut Grass, Friday Night at the Royal Station Hotel, How Distant, I Remember, I Remember, MCMXIV, At Grass, Mr Bleaney, Absences, Broadcast, Dublinesque, Show
Saturday, Here
The Less Deceived (Faber, 1955) The Whitsun Weddings (Faber
1964), High Windows (Faber, 1974)
Chris Sewart reads his poems A Boy and Cartoon
Kiss.
Home Is So Sad
Beverley Art Gallery April 2023 : ‘Home is so Sad’, showcased newly commissioned artwork, alongside pieces from the permanent collections of East Riding Museums and the Philip Larkin Society featured the paintings and installations of Seoul-based artists Yeonkyoung Lee and Sam Robinson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr-IcSIS4mY
A Joyous Shot
https://www.visiteastyorkshire.co.uk/event/philip-larkin-%E2%80%93-a-joyous-shot/191184101/
Details of the PLS Conference and other events can be found here:
https://philiplarkin.com/uncategorized/forthcoming-events/
The link for Chris’s poetry workshop and appearance with
Roger McGough at the Stage4Beverley festival is https://stage4beverley.com/
Today I Cycled to
Beverley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QYMXXnJ_e8
Lyn Talking about Sylvia Plath: Horror Poet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVoi999Eywk
The Beatles- Please, Please Me (1963, Parlophone) Sgt
Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band (Parlophone, 1967), The White Album (1968,
Apple)
Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse Book ed.
Philip Larkin (OUP, 1973)
Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love by James Booth (2015,
Bloomsbury)
Somewhere becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin
(Picador, 2019)
The Philip Larkin I Knew by Maeve Brennan (MUP, 2002)
Philip Larkin, The Marvell Press and Me by Jean Hartley
(Faber and Faber, 2012)
Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life by Andrew Motion (Faber,
1994)
Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin ed. Anthony Thwaite.
(Faber and Faber, 2011)
Philip Larkin Selected Letters ed. Anthony Thwaite (Faber
and Faber, 1993)
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 by Philip
Larkin (Faber and Faber, 1983)
Philip Larkin: The Man and His Work ed. Dale Salwak
(Palgrave, 1983)
Philip Larkin, Monitor, Down Cemetery Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coe11pgoj8E
Authors mentioned by Chris
Summerwater by Sarah Moss review – a dark holiday in Scotland |
Fiction | The Guardian
The Mersey Sound: Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian
Patten (Penguin, first published 1967, since reprinted many times!)
Jonathan Edwards – The Poetry Society: Poems
'Instead of a card' poetry pamphlets – UK based independent publisher
(candlestickpress.co.uk)
The Catch by Simon Armitage https://www.poeticous.com/simon-armitage/the-catch-forget
Produced by Lyn Lockwood and Gavin Hogg
PLS Membership and information: philiplarkin.com
Theme music: 'The Horns Of The Morning' by The Mechanicals Band. Buy 'The Righteous Jazz' at their Bandcamp page: https://themechanicalsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-righteous-jazz