Chris Sewart and Phil Pullen

Tiny In All That Air

In this episode we talk to Beverley based poet Chris Sewart in his second appearance on Tiny in All That Air, and Phil Pullen, trustee of the PLS, who regular listeners will be familiar with from a number of previous episodes. We talk about Chris's poetry and his upcoming performance as the 'warm up' for Roger McGough in Beverley next year (details below). We also discuss Phil's new project for the PLS You-Tube account documenting the Larkin Trail. We end the episode considering three poems from High Windows- The Explosion, Livings and Forget What Did- as we look ahead to the 50th anniversary of the publication of High Windows in 2024 and the PLS Conference in March at the University of Hull.

Larkin poems mentioned:

Annus Mirabilis, Livings, Forget What Did, The Explosion, To The Sea, Going Going, The Building, Aubade, The Old Fools, The Trees, Solar,Cut Grass, Friday Night at the Royal Station Hotel, How Distant, I Remember, I Remember, MCMXIV, At Grass, Mr Bleaney, Absences, Broadcast, Dublinesque, Show Saturday, Here

The Less Deceived (Faber, 1955) The Whitsun Weddings (Faber 1964), High Windows (Faber, 1974)

Chris Sewart reads his poems A Boy and Cartoon Kiss.

Home Is So Sad Beverley Art Gallery April 2023 : ‘Home is so Sad’, showcased newly commissioned artwork, alongside pieces from the permanent collections of East Riding Museums and the Philip Larkin Society featured the paintings and installations of Seoul-based artists Yeonkyoung Lee and Sam Robinson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr-IcSIS4mY

A Joyous Shot

https://www.visiteastyorkshire.co.uk/event/philip-larkin-%E2%80%93-a-joyous-shot/191184101/

Details of the PLS Conference and other events can be found here:

https://philiplarkin.com/uncategorized/forthcoming-events/

The link for Chris’s poetry workshop and appearance with Roger McGough at the Stage4Beverley festival is https://stage4beverley.com/

Today I Cycled to Beverley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QYMXXnJ_e8

Lyn Talking about Sylvia Plath: Horror Poet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVoi999Eywk

The Beatles- Please, Please Me (1963, Parlophone) Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band (Parlophone, 1967), The White Album (1968, Apple)

Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse Book ed. Philip Larkin (OUP, 1973)

Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love by James Booth (2015, Bloomsbury)

Somewhere becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin (Picador, 2019)

The Philip Larkin I Knew by Maeve Brennan (MUP, 2002)

Philip Larkin, The Marvell Press and Me by Jean Hartley (Faber and Faber, 2012)

Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life by Andrew Motion (Faber, 1994)

Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin ed. Anthony Thwaite. (Faber and Faber, 2011)

Philip Larkin Selected Letters ed. Anthony Thwaite (Faber and Faber, 1993)

Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 by Philip Larkin (Faber and Faber, 1983)

Philip Larkin: The Man and His Work ed. Dale Salwak (Palgrave, 1983)

Philip Larkin, Monitor, Down Cemetery Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coe11pgoj8E

Authors mentioned by Chris

Kit de Waal | Kit de Waal

Summerwater by Sarah Moss review – a dark holiday in Scotland | Fiction | The Guardian

The Mersey Sound: Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten (Penguin, first published 1967, since reprinted many times!)

Jonathan Edwards – The Poetry Society: Poems

Rachel Long (rachel-long.com)

'Instead of a card' poetry pamphlets – UK based independent publisher (candlestickpress.co.uk)

The Catch by Simon Armitage https://www.poeticous.com/simon-armitage/the-catch-forget

Produced by Lyn Lockwood and Gavin Hogg

PLS Membership and information: philiplarkin.com

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