“The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.”

—  Philip Larkin

"The Mower," Humberside (Hull Literary Club magazine) (Autumn 1979) [12 June 1979]

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English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian 1922–1985

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