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Philip Larkin Society @plsoc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

youtu.be/Iv34q25EGng?... We put together a mean conference! Here’s some visual impressions from last week.

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PLS Conference 2026

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Just finished the highly-acclaimed debut novel #TheNames by #FlorenceKnapp. It’s a very original & fascinating idea for a novel. Thought-provoking & memorable📚👏

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Just finished #Kala, the much-acclaimed, ambitious debut novel by Irish writer, Colin Walsh. Probably not one to be featured by Ireland.com as it is dark & quite grim but well-written & plenty to admire🎧📚 htpps://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0C91J8JV2?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Delighted to be reminded that we are into ‘no mow May’ which has relieved me of the task of mowing the lawn for another month. Philip Larkin would regretfully have approved (‘The Mower’)😢 🦔

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Joyce’s prose is such a delight and beautifully read by Andrew Scott. Enjoyed it on my drive home from Birmingham tonight🙂📚🎧https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/b09t89gc?partner=uk.co.bbc

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BBC Sounds - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce on BBC Sounds.

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Philip Larkin Society @plsoc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I Remember, I Remember and Talking In Bed discussed in some detail and some fascinating thoughts on US and British poetry from our guest David Biespiel this month. Please have a listen. It's free and you don't need to subscribe. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/d...

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David Biespiel

Podcast Episode · Tiny In All That Air · 28/02/2025 · 1h

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Gorgeous day doing a ‘Spy Trail’ around Tynemouth with my daughter & her children. 3 hours’ walking!

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Just completed 27 hours of listening to a brilliant narration of James Joyce’s Ulysses. An amazing listen which I really enjoyed. Hilarious in parts. Stream of consciousness & remarkably contemporary🎧🙂📚

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Lovely lunch of Grimsby haddock at Five Bells, Bassingham near Lincoln🙂🍽️🍺 Interesting poster of Lincoln Races!

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Been walking with 🐶🎃 at the King George V Playing Fields (‘recreation ground’) in Cottingham, setting for Philip Larkin’s poignant poem ‘Afternoons’. Here are the ‘swing and sandpit’ (or equivalent)🙂📚

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Today is the 33rd anniversary of the death of my father, Eric Wild, known to the family as Bill & to work colleagues at Shell & BP as Jimmy. He spent 3 1/2 years as a Japanese PoW on the Burma Railway. He was a wonderful man & always in my thoughts🥲

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Very impressive work by the tree surgeon reducing our huge beech tree. Amazing how he can shape the tree from that high up. It was very cold all day🥶👏

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Finished Robert Harris’s excellent #Munich. It starts with a quote from historian FW Maitland (1850-1906) “We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future”. The way the ‘superpowers’ sought to carve up Czechoslovakia in 1938 should be a stark reminder for Ukraine🇺🇦

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Just finished Robert Harris’s ‘An Officer And A Spy’. I studied the Dreyfus Affair at school but this is a remarkable retelling of the political scandal which divided French society😳📚🇫🇷

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I’ve taken pictures like this a hundred times but being with Pumpkin on a beautiful sunny day down by the Humber, with the bridge beyond, always gladdens my heart. This was today😍🐶🎃

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Today would have been the 79th wedding anniversary of my parents, Eric & Daphne Wild, married OTD in 1946 at St James’s Piccadilly after my father returned from 3 1/2 years as a Japanese PoW. Miss them very much🥲

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Just finished Robert Harris’s latest novel #Precipice Extraordinary story of the relationship between HH Asquith & Venetia Stanley before and during WW1. Highly recommended📕👍

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Pumpkin enjoying the sun & the snowdrops on a Spring-like February Sunday. Lovely day😎🐶🎃

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Argentinian Malbec. Sadly not my own brand but pretty good value🙂🍷🇦🇷

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Pumpkin a bit wind-swept on our walk today😐🎃🐶💨

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Philip Larkin Society @plsoc.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Barbara Pym, novelist and friend of Philip Larkin, died this day in 1980. Larkin was a huge admirer of Pym's work. On 18th March 1979 he wrote to her saying 'no-one can read you without wanting to read more'. Please have a look at barbarapym.org for more Pym delight.

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Walking down from the old railway line to the playing fields at Anlaby. Beautiful day but only 2 degrees & the ground still frozen🥶❄️🐶🎃

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

"Monica and Philip 1" 2021 (Monica Jones and Philip Larkin) John Welsh English Artist Oil on Canvas 28 inches x 26 inches Private Collection #art #painting #painters

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Philip Larkin Society @plsoc.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Our deputy chair Lyn Lockwood and London based artist D J Roberts checking out Larkin's plaque at King's Cross this week. D J's Larkin inspired prints are available at PhilipLarkin.com.

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Sad tale of the demise of racing at Phoenix Park. Another racecourse I would love to have gone to x.com/horsevault/s...

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

No football today! Frozen pitch😐🐶🎃❄️

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

No football today! Frozen pitch😐🐶🎃❄️

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Nice ‘Weary Walkers’ stroll round King George V Playing Fields in Cottingham. Frosty & a bit waterlogged in parts but a bright, crisp morning. Scene of Philip Larkin’s poignant poem ‘Afternoons’🙂🐶🎃📚@plsoc.bsky.social

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Listening to this brilliant edition of #ThisCulturalLife whilst walking 🐶🎃 down the old Hull&Barnsley railway line. Even Philip Larkin gets a mention. Beautiful day! @plsoc.bsky.social @johnwilson14.bsky.social @edwinapitman.bsky.social 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I have now listened to 88 episodes of #ThisCulturalLife ⁦‪⁦‬⁩but none affected me as much as the master storyteller #MichaelMorpurgo I would recommend everyone to listen to this🙂🎧📚 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @johnwilson14.bsky.social @edwinapitman.bsky.social

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This Cultural Life - Michael Morpurgo - BBC Sounds

Author, poet and playwright Michael Morpurgo reveals what inspired his own creativity.

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I’m working in the bedroom & 🐶🎃 has taken herself off to bed😴

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

My weekend of Irish culture finished with the beautifully-filmed & poignant ‘That They May Face the Rising Sun’ based on the novel by John McGahern 🎥🎬🇮🇪

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Jacqueline F Baron @jacqueline-f-baron.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Just Philip Larkin! "You can look out of your life like a train and see what you're heading for but you can't stop the train." The Philip Larkin statue at Hull Paragon railway station, just after I stepped off a train. @plsoc.bsky.social 🎄 💚 #hull

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Following my current preoccupation with Irish culture, I’ve just watched #TheQuietGirl on More4. Spoken in Irish with English subtitles. It is perfect😢🎥🎬🇮🇪

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Having enjoyed ‘This is Happiness’ by #NiallWilliams i finished the follow-up ‘Time of the Child’ on a long drive yesterday. This is beautiful storytelling, perfectly read🙂📚🎧 www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0DGGZ88J...

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Time of the Child

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Bloomsbury presents Time of the Child by Niall Williams, read by Dermot Crowley "I am such a fan of Niall Williams." —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestsell...

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Back along the old railway line this morning. Pumpkin’s favourite. Barnsley at least 65 miles behind. Hull 5 miles ahead. No better way to spend Christmas Eve😍🐶🎃

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Philip Larkin Society @plsoc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Please enjoy our bumper anniversary compilation episode, with a look back over some great moments of the last five years. And new artwork! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

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Five Year Anniversary Celebration

Podcast Episode · Tiny In All That Air · 10/12/2024 · 1h 19m

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Grace Judicata @holborne.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 10 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I have just finished #ThisIsHappiness by #NiallWilliams on Audible. It’s a remarkably peaceful story of the West of Ireland before electricity arrived. Beautifully written & read. The author’s follow-up #TimeoftheChild is recently out. My next listen🙂📚🎧

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

My son Jack at the Wolds Festive Illuminated Charity Truck & Tractor Run last night #Halder

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This was my book of the year. I loved #TheCoastRoad from beginning to end. Wonderful characters. A story which will have struck many a chord. Great writing without a wasted word. I can’t praise this debut novel highly enough. So sorry it ended🙂📕 #AlanMurrin

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Lovely walk this morning in Pearson Park, Hull. Our Tuesday OAPs’ walk ending with coffee on vibrant Newland Avenue. We started outside Philip Larkin’s former home at 32 Pearson Park (‘High Windows’). @plsoc.bsky.social 🙂📕🚶‍♂️☕️

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Lovely morning of mulled wine & mince pies at #BrianRothwellRacing owners’ Christmas gathering in Malton. This is an unraced, scopey 3-y-o filly by Rajasinghe who has shown promise & will be out next year🙂🏇🤞

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Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Stock selling fast for #WildCandlesofYorkshire at the Christmas Fair at Haltemprice Sports Centre🙂🕯️

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