reaching for the world, as our lives do

Jun 27, 2011 23:08

For the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Humber Bridge, a lyrical and hopeful ode quite unlike the Larkin of This Be The Verse and Aubade, read by Sir Tom Courtenay.

(The short film doesn't do Hull justice, according to two colleagues who worked there for several years and were pleasantly surprised and moved by the tribute from a personage familiar until yesterday to them only as a statue and the name of a building, but the words more than suffice.)

poetry

Previous post Next post
Up