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Chris Sewart Discusses All Things PLS

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Lyn and Chris discuss the recent writing workshop run by the Philip Larkin Society called Drafting a World: a Poetry Writing Workshop inspired by the poetry of Philip Larkin, with Nottingham based writer Jane Bluett at the Avenues in Hull on Saturday 11th October at ArtLink. Chris reads his new Larkin poem from the workshop, Father of the Bride and we talk about the power of using Larkinalia and Larkin’s words to inspire us. We also discuss the treasures to be found in About Larkin, Maurice Rutherford, the upcoming PLS Book Club and Jill, and the upcoming Stage4Beverley music and literature festival, for which Chris is festival poet, our shared love of yarnbombing and the (very small) PLS Makers Society. We also look ahead to the 2026 PLS Conference March 19-20th.

Larkin texts discussed

The Whitsun Weddings, High Windows, Water, Toads Revisited, Jill, A Girl In Winter, Required Writing, For Sidney Bechet

Other writers/texts mentioned:

Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954), Maurice Rutherford Here 2012, (from Under Travelling Skies ed. Cliff Forshaw) (2012) An Enormous Yes (Peterloo Poets, 1986), Wendy Cope Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (Faber and Faber 1986), Barbara Pym,Ted Hughes, Kingsley Amis, TS Eliot, Saltburn (dir. Emerald Fennell, 2023), Brian Bilston, Simon Armitage, Alan Johnson

Reading/references:

'Fifty Years On: Bringing 'The Whitsun Weddings' to Life: A performance by Ensemble 52: 6 June 2014. A report is on page 14 of this pdf of the society's journal: About Larkin...About-Larkin-38.pdf.

Wendy Cope

the poem, Mr Strugnell, is featured in Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (Faber & Faber, 1986)

Wendy Cope - Poetry Archive

About Larkin 15- featuring article by Sean O’Brien and Wendy Cole’s interview with Larkin’s neighbours at 32 Pearson Park

https://philiplarkin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/About-Larkin-15.pdf

Maurice Rutherford

https://www.thehullstory.com/allarticles/maurice-rutherford-obituary

Stage 4 Beverley

Festival Poet - Chris Sewart – Stage 4 Beverley Festival Poet, in association with The Philip Larkin Society - Stage 4 Beverley

Tickets and line-up - Stage 4 Beverley

Artlink.

Venue for PLS poetry Writing Workshops: Artlink Hull

Chris Sewart Society of Authors profile page:

Chris Sewart - The Society of Authors

Some of Chris's recent poems can be found/purchased at:

Echoes - 20 years of Write Out Loud | Write Out Loud

The Fig Tree - Issue 9 - by Tim Fellows - The Fig Tree

The Fig Tree - Issue 10 - by Tim Fellows - The Fig Tree

The Fig Tree Coal Mining Anthology - Shop – Crooked Spire Press

The Leaf, issue 2 - The Leaf issue 2 | Three Blue Beans

Please register to attend the PLS Conference 2026 here (currently at an Early Bird rate)

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1727992314529?aff=oddtdtcreator

Hull History Centre Larkin event on November 15th- art workshop followed by talk on Ted Tarling- please purchase your tickets here and come along

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1761076670729?aff=oddtdtcreator

Music:

Henry Allen Feeling Drowsy (1929)

Theme music:

The Horns of the Morning by Wes Finch and the Mechanicals Band

https://themechanicalsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-righteous-jazz

Produced by Lyn Lockwood and Gavin Hogg and https://www.podmachine.com/

Please email Lyn at ⁠[email protected] ⁠ with any questions or comments

PLS Membership, events, merchandise and information: philiplarkin.com

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