![]() ![]() ![]() I responded with a sort-of-haiku written on a napkin:Įxternal Links: Faber and Faber | Might be necessary otherwise the planet would be fatally over-loaded. Recently atĭinner in a local restaurant Harold suggested lightly that death So poetry remains central to his life, and to ours. Poem in the book chronologically, refers to his recent illness. Of his first wife and DEATH written just after the registration In his life through poetry, not only PARIS but GHOST after the death Harold is fortunate, I believe, to be able to mark the turning-points ![]() LATER, belongs to the summer of 1974, and Harold tells me that itĮxpresses his mood at that time, so I have included it as a picture (Are you the A in question, asked my mother,Ĭautious where poetry is concerned.) The one exception to this rule, Apart from PARIS, these are I KNOW THE PLACE, DENMARK HILLĪnd IT IS HERE: 'for A'. In the years following our first meeting, four of them directly Year, and poetry has remained central to our shared life ever since.Īll the poems I have chosen - with one exception - were written He wrote a poemĬalled PARIS which celebrated our first jaunt together in May that Poetry shortly after we first met in January 1975. By Philip Larkin, selected by Harold Pinter. ![]()
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