Lucy Vickery

Spectator competition winners: Philip Larkin’s poems rewritten by other poets

‘It’s no go the train ride for this flush of Whitsun weddings…’ [SuperStock / Alamy Stock Photo] 
issue 17 September 2022

In Competition No. 3266, you were invited to reimagine one of Philip Larkin’s poems in the style of a poet of your choice.

This challenge was a nod to the centenary last month of the poet’s birth, the response to which – though the Philip Larkin Society was upbeat: ‘so much is happening!’ – seemed somewhat muted.

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