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Showing posts with label philip larkin. Show all posts
6 Aug 2024

Reflections on Stephen Alexander's 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' - A Guest Post by Sally Guaragna

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Stephen Alexander:   I Want to Hold Your Hand (2024)   Stephen Alexander's disturbing self-portrait accompanied by Myra Hindley is a st...
28 Mar 2022

To Hull and Back (In Memory of Gillian Hall)

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Lucy Beaumont / Michelle Dewberry     I.    Lucy Beaumont and Michelle Dewberry are the two women I love most on British television. The fo...
22 Aug 2020

On Myth and Literary Criticism

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Northrop Frye (1912-1991)  Photo by Andrew Danson  The Canadian Encyclopedia I. Many (anti-modernist) writers continue t...
13 Sept 2018

Larking About with Philip Larkin

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The Larkin Toad  by Frances Kelly  Image: The Philip Larkin Society I. When it comes to how we view and remember our poets...
11 Sept 2018

Why I Love Philip Larkin (The D. H. Lawrence Birthday Post - 2018)

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Portrait of Philip Larkin by gforce7 (1996) deviantart.com  There are many reasons to love Larkin - and doubtless just as many t...
10 Sept 2018

Save the Hedgehog

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Photo: Tim Melling /Getty Images  As a rule, I don't like the idea of saving anything, be it a whale, an immortal soul, or a...
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28 Nov 2014

We Are All Hunchbacks

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One must inevitably clash with those individuals - such as my sister - who are beyond reason and kindness; those who are fatally burd...
17 Jan 2013

This Be the Post

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They fuck you up, your mum and dad.  They may not mean to, but they do.  From my mother I get:  My urgency, my phobias, my o...