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Philip Larkin at 100: Why the morbid curmudgeon still belongs in schools
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA century after the poet’s birth, Larkin’s friend and biographer Andrew Motion talks to Kevin E G...
The Gathering: Channel 4 teen drama turns tables on toxic parents
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoBoiling Point star Vinette Robinson (right) portrays the particularly objectionable mother of...
Wilfred Owen and Philip Larkin’s GCSE removal is ‘cultural vandalism’ – Zahawi
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoThe removal of poems by Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen from a GCSE poetry anthology has been...
Say it loud: silent discos are a crime against culture
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIn Church Going, Philip Larkin stops in a provincial church, pooters about “in awkward reverence”,...
If traditional bank holidays aren’t for you, perhaps these alternatives would be a welcome addition
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThere is plenty about modern life to cause celebration and aggravation in equal measure. Thankfully,...
Woke Christianity will kill the Church of England stone dead
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe National Churches Trust reports that more than 2,000 churches have closed over the past decade,...
Alan Brownjohn, prolific poet and novelist who skewered the banality of office life – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAlan Brownjohn, who has died aged 92, was a poet, novelist and critic whose writing could darkly...
Howard Jacobson’s midlife marriage story has emotions in spades
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months ago“What will survive of us is love.” It’s one of the most treasured lines in English literature, but...
This Book of Poetry Written by AI Should Scare the Hell Out of You
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 9 months agoPhoto Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyThere are profound fears about the ways...
Britney Spears’ Lawyer Calls Out Singer’s “Stonewalling” Dad For Avoiding Deposition Over Her...
Deadline via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIt may never ever end up as a lyric in a Britney Spears’ song, but poet Philip Larkin’s often quoted...