Hugh Odling-Smee & Philip Pullen (November 2022)

This episode features Belfast arts manager Hugh Odling- Smee and PLS trustee Philip Pullen who, as part of his centenary lecture tour, took part in the 2022 Belfast International Arts Festival with a talk on Larkin in Belfast. Hugh and Phil discuss the literary heritage that Belfast enjoys and Larkin’s life in Belfast between 1950 and 1955. Books and writers discussed: A Rumoured City: New Poets from Hull by Douglas Dunn (Editor), Philip Larkin (foreword), (Bloodaxe, 1982) Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ed. Philip Larkin (OUP, 1973) Andrew Motion- Larkin A Writer’s Life (Faber, 2018) Belfast poets: John Hewitt (1907-1987), Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) Brian Moore (1921-1999)- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (HarperCollins 1955),  (Harper Perennial Modern Classics series, 2007 re-issue)/film version dir. Jack Clayton (1987) Odd Man Out (1945)- FL Green The Importance of Elsewhere- Richard Bradford (Frances Lincoln, 2015) Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin ed. Antony Thwaite (Faber, 2011) Larkin poems: The Less Deceived (Faber 1955) The Importance of Elsewhere, Maiden Name, Absences, Single to Belfast (unpublished during lifetime), Water, Church Going, Mr Bleaney, Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album, Reasons for Attendance Philip Pullen ‘s Belfast talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxbKmDJUOH4 The Importance of Elsewhere - Philip Pullen presentation, Belfast International Arts Festival 2022 Larkin100 events: https://philiplarkin.com/news/larkin100-whats-coming-up/ Presented by Lyn Lockwood. Theme music: 'The Horns Of The Morning' by The Mechanicals Band. Buy 'The Righteous Jazz' at their Bandcamp page: https://themechanicalsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-righteous-jazz Audio editing by Simon Galloway. Follow us and get it touch on Twitter - https://twitter.com/tiny_air Find out more about the Philip Larkin Society here -