
“For me today, Hull City beat Hull City.”
1-Sep-2008, Guardian website
It was a bit of a one-sided game as Hull lose at home 0-5 to Wigan.
Yesterday was Baldulf of all knights boldest, but now he standeth on the hill, and beholdeth the Avon, how the steel fishes lie in the stream! Armed with sword, their life is destroyed; their scales float like gold-dyed shields; there float their fins, as if it were spears. These are marvellous things come to this land; such beasts on the hill, such fishes in the stream!
Source: Brut, Line 10638; vol. 2, pp. 471-2.
“For me today, Hull City beat Hull City.”
1-Sep-2008, Guardian website
It was a bit of a one-sided game as Hull lose at home 0-5 to Wigan.
“Sinking faster than a boat without a hull.”
Sonnet
Urban Hymns (1997)
“This is Prince Charles & Camilla. Or, as I like to think of them, Rod Hull & Emu.”
A Brief History of Timewasting, Room 101, The News Quiz
“Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.”
"Alas! Deceived", p. 367 (1993).
Writing Home (1994)
“Sweeter than apples to children
The green water spurted through my pine-wood hull.”
Plus douce qu'aux enfants la chair des pommes sures,
L'eau verte pénétra ma coque de sapin.
St. 5
Le Bateau Ivre http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Boat.html (The Drunken Boat) (1871)
"Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin" (1997)
Context: Philip Larkin, a big, fat, bald librarian at the University of Hull, was unquestionably England's unofficial laureate: our best-loved poet since the war; better loved for our poet than John Betjeman, who was loved also for his charm, his famous beagle, his patrician Bohemianism and his televisual charisma, all of which Larkin notably lacked.
Ten years later, Larkin is now something like a pariah, or an untouchable.
1880s, Reminiscences (1881)