reaching for the world, as our lives do

[feliciter]

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

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[flemmings]

Well well. Wouldn't have thought Larkin had that in him. Maybe when he stops feeling hard done by for being born a human being, and looks however briefly outside himself...

[feliciter]

Perhaps the sheer shock of being asked to write about something concrete did his head in.

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[ambientlight]

i had no idea that there was a statue of larkin!

thanks for linking to the video; when i read rhyming, metered verse in my head it tends to sound sing-song and childish, so it's good to hear how it should be done, so to speak.

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[feliciter]

The official one shows him "late getting away", presumably on the Whitsunday of the Weddings, but I much prefer the affectionate (?)tribute to Toads.

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[ambientlight]

ha! excellent.

[cleopatreycu]

Excellent post I must say.. Simple but yet interesting and engaging.. Keep up the awesome work!

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[anonymous]

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