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A little cynical, but a guarded pick. The one pictured is my favorite of the bunch.

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In celebration of the wonderful 2017 city of culture Hull, home of my wife and a place i love and never tire of visiting. The poetry on my shelf is limited but this slim volume is brilliant.

Happy Birthday to Philip Larkin (1922-1985)! Although the more I find out about his personal life, the less I like him as a person, discovering his poetry has been one of the joys of this reading year. His poems are sparse, haunting, and without mercy when it comes to their insight. This occasion has reminded me I need to finish the uncollected poems in "The Complete Poems!" #bookishbirthday #backfromanexistentiallitsycrisis ?

Happy Birthday to Philip Larkin (1922-1985)! Although the more I find out about his personal life, the less I like him as a person, discovering his poetry has been one of the joys of this reading year. His poems are sparse, haunting, and without mercy when it comes to their insight. This occasion has reminded me I need to finish the uncollected poems in "The Complete Poems!" #bookishbirthday #backfromanexistentiallitsycrisis ?

I liked this one less than the other two, and this is the most modern of the 3. That said, the collection is loaded with corkers like these - and there's a great one about an advert, too. Larkin's skeptical view of British rural life felt...appropriate today.