Larkin's 99th Birthday special (part 2)

Tiny In All That Air

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 second of two parts.

Poems and readers featured as follows.
The Challenges of Life

Reasons for Attendance - Alex Howard

Continuing to Live - Adam Crawford

Reference Back - Philip Watts

Sad Steps - Richard Johnston

Home is So Sad - Carmel Morgan

The Darker Side of Life

Faith Healing - Robert Johnson

A Study of Reading Habits - Tim Holmes

Aubade – Roy Evans

Love and Compassion

An April Sunday - Sue Mendus

The Mower – Maureen Docherty

Places Loved Ones - Rich Tuner

The Old Fools - Michael Farman

At Grass - Julian Wild

Experience

Long Sight in Age - Clarissa Hard

Started to Say - Martin Locock

I Remember I Remember - Nigel Mc Bride

Wild Oats - Wes Finch

Dockery and Son - Jim Moliski

Celebration

To the Sea - Daniel Gallimore

The Trees - Philip Watts

High Windows - Tony de Kok

Here - Rosie Millard

1952-1977 - Chris Sewart

Broadcast - Charlie Connolly

The Mower - Belinda Garry
Please also have a listen to Charlie Connolly's wonderful podcast Coastal Stories and Philip Watts's fascinating work at https://elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/. Thank you to Rob White and the team at Retford Library for contributing the video reading of Places, Loved Ones that we have featured on our Twitter account. You can also find more readings of Larkin's poetry by Julian Wild on YouTube.
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.

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