Anne O'Neill and Julian Henry

Tiny In All That Air

Anne O'Neill and Julian Henry are newer members of the Philip Larkin Society team and many people will have already been feeling the benefit of their fantastic work on the PL Instagram page. Julian is also a trustee and is now supporting the society committee and its planning and events work. Anne is based in County Kerry and Julian in Oxford. We got together to talk about Larkin in the media, Twitter, Instagram, radio and television and Anne and Julian talk about their route into Larkin, their favourite poems, cancel culture, Hull University, Beatrix Potter, Larkin’s legacy and much more.

Wider topics and references: Rachel Cusk, Morrissey, Rap Boy, Desert Island Discs, Dublin, James Joyce, Richard Murfield, Monica Jones, Beatrix Potter, The Smiths, The Beatles A Hard Day Night, Bernadine Evaristo.

Larkin poems discussed: No Road, Dublinesque, Going Going, Broadcast, Church Going, This Be The Verse, At Grass.

Desert Island Discs (BBC) Larkin as guest (17.7.76) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009n0l8

The South Bank Show March (1981) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdeEFErYVtk

All What Jazz (1970) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/10/back-pages-philip-larkin-jazz-george-melly

Margaret Atwood on poetry: https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2020/nov/07/caught-in-times-current-margaret-atwood-on-grief-poetry-and-the-past-four-years

Nick Cave on cancel culture/censorship: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/do-you-need-to-change-lyrics/

Bibliotherapy

https://ofselfandshelf.com/tag/philip-larkin/

https://theblahpolar.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/bibliotherapy/

Letters Home- James Booth (ed.) https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571335596-philip-larkin-letters-home.html

Anne O’Neill’s articles on Larkin

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/world-sleep-day-can-t-sleep-at-night-have-a-read-1.3428267

Books themselves serve as the ultimate self-help book for reading is a great cure

Presented by Lyn Lockwood.

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

Audio production by Simon Galloway.

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