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Larkin's 99th Birthday special (part 1)
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The Society is looking forward to the Centenary celebrations next year, but we wanted to mark what would have been Larkin's 99th birthday this year by reading his poems. The readings have been recorded and submitted by PLS society members, trustees, honorary vice presidents and podcast listeners from across the world. Larkin was famously reluctant to read his poems in public, but we hope listeners enjoy hearing his words being read out loud. Please raise a glass and join us with our birthday celebrations! This is the first of two parts.
Poems and readers featured as follows.
The Challenges of Life
This Be the Verse - Helen Cooper
Life with a Hole in It - Wade Newman
First Sight - Gregg Walker
Days - David Quantick
Reasons for Attendance - Richard Johnston
The Darker Side of Life
The Building - Anne Gibson
Sunny Prestatyn - Wes Finch
Afternoons - Rachael Galletly
Mr Bleaney - Martin Duckworth
Love and Compassion
The Mower - Yuanyou Zhang
An April Sunday Brings the Snow – Hans Rutten
Places, Loved Ones - Laura Wilson
Love Songs in Age - Hugh Lester
Born Yesterday - Carmel Morgan
An Arundel Tomb - Ann Thwaite
Experience
Wires - Gregg Walker
Wild Oats – Cath Sked
New Eyes Each Year - Tony Peyser
This is the First Thing - Graham Chesters
Lines on a Young Ladies Photograph Album - Ingrid Keith
Toads Revisited - Tim Whitaker
Celebration
The Trees - Polly McMullan
The School in August - Casey Allen
Skin - Bert Molsom
To The Sea - Sally Button
Coming - Paul Evans
Is It For Now or For Always? - Lorna Simes
Here - Nick Smales
Please also head over to the Right In The Schoolies podcast for more Larkin poetry and check out Alan Johnson (honorary vice president of the Philip Larkin Society) reading Friday Night at the Royal Station Hotel on our Twitter feed. Thank you to all our contributors. Keep an eye out for Part 2 and many more readings.
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 editing by Simon Galloway.
Follow us and get it touch on Twitter - https://twitter.com/tiny_air
Find out more about the Philip Larkin Society here - http://philiplarkin.com/
60 episodes
Manage episode 314931234 series 3234668
The Society is looking forward to the Centenary celebrations next year, but we wanted to mark what would have been Larkin's 99th birthday this year by reading his poems. The readings have been recorded and submitted by PLS society members, trustees, honorary vice presidents and podcast listeners from across the world. Larkin was famously reluctant to read his poems in public, but we hope listeners enjoy hearing his words being read out loud. Please raise a glass and join us with our birthday celebrations! This is the first of two parts.
Poems and readers featured as follows.
The Challenges of Life
This Be the Verse - Helen Cooper
Life with a Hole in It - Wade Newman
First Sight - Gregg Walker
Days - David Quantick
Reasons for Attendance - Richard Johnston
The Darker Side of Life
The Building - Anne Gibson
Sunny Prestatyn - Wes Finch
Afternoons - Rachael Galletly
Mr Bleaney - Martin Duckworth
Love and Compassion
The Mower - Yuanyou Zhang
An April Sunday Brings the Snow – Hans Rutten
Places, Loved Ones - Laura Wilson
Love Songs in Age - Hugh Lester
Born Yesterday - Carmel Morgan
An Arundel Tomb - Ann Thwaite
Experience
Wires - Gregg Walker
Wild Oats – Cath Sked
New Eyes Each Year - Tony Peyser
This is the First Thing - Graham Chesters
Lines on a Young Ladies Photograph Album - Ingrid Keith
Toads Revisited - Tim Whitaker
Celebration
The Trees - Polly McMullan
The School in August - Casey Allen
Skin - Bert Molsom
To The Sea - Sally Button
Coming - Paul Evans
Is It For Now or For Always? - Lorna Simes
Here - Nick Smales
Please also head over to the Right In The Schoolies podcast for more Larkin poetry and check out Alan Johnson (honorary vice president of the Philip Larkin Society) reading Friday Night at the Royal Station Hotel on our Twitter feed. Thank you to all our contributors. Keep an eye out for Part 2 and many more readings.
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 editing by Simon Galloway.
Follow us and get it touch on Twitter - https://twitter.com/tiny_air
Find out more about the Philip Larkin Society here - http://philiplarkin.com/
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