Stephen Bodio's Querencia (Free subscription) | yesterday
... was a very serious poet, but he may be best known for his mordant "This be the verse", with its famous NSFW first line that was even the theme for an issue of Granta . I was surprised and tickled to see a YouTube of Larkin photos over a reading of that poem at Carl Zimmer's evo blog The Loom. A commenter on that post said it was not Larkin reading, and I wondered who it might be....
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... the myriad ways of accessing it that are available. In these , gone are the clichés represented by Philip Larkin and his "loaf-haired" secretary. Technology has unleashed the librarian and, in cyberspace, a new breed of librarians is giving a voice to ideas and worries about the changing nature of the profession. Online you can read "rants about the state of librarianship" from the...
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cocker's songwriting remains rich. The lyrics are stacked with extramusical references, to Wearside Jack (in the mid-life crisis classic "I Will Kill Again") and Philip Larkin ("If your parents didn't screw you up ... do it yourself"). There are musical ones too ("Black Magic" built on the chassis of Tommy James's "Crimson and Clover"). There's autobiography (the couplet in "Tonite" that...
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cocker's songwriting remains rich. The lyrics are stacked with extramusical references, to Wearside Jack (in the mid-life crisis classic "I Will Kill Again") and Philip Larkin ("If your parents didn't screw you up ... do it yourself"). There are musical ones too ("Black Magic" built on the chassis of Tommy James's "Crimson and Clover"). There's autobiography (the couplet in "Tonite" that...
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
... before, but never engaged in sex. Early Sixties This is England in 1962, memorably described by Philip Larkin in the poem Annus Horribilis: Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) - Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles' first LP Edward adores his beautiful wife, and she loves him too -– but she is not prepared for this. She...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... the group developed a more mature image. Edwards, who admired writers, including Albert Camus, Philip Larkin, Yukio Mishima and Fyodor Dostoevsky, made literary references in his lyrics.They had modest success with singles such as, You Love us, Slash ‘n’ Burn, Motorcycle Emptiness and Suicide is Painless (the MASH theme, which entered the Top 10).Their albums were far more successful...
Arena Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
... hold it triumphantly above her head, raising both money and awareness for mental health issues. Philip Larkin Coventry Funtime Army When first confronted with the notion of Coventry, most people’s instant reaction would be of a relatively downbeat Midlands town. Not many people know that lugubrious wordsmith Philip Larkin was born and raised in Coventry, which is where...
