Larkin About in Coventry
The City where a Great Poet Grew Up
Coventry is used to being written off. But it always makes a comeback. Forty years on from being labelled a 'Ghost Town', it is to be the next UK City of Culture. After Hull, as it happens, the place where Philip Larkin was head librarian at the university's Brynmor Jones Library. His love of libraries, of books, of poetry began in the city where he was born, went to school and spent his first 18 years. His childhood was not unspent, as he claimed in I Remember, I Remember. He remembered it all too well, the good times as well as the bad, and was devastated by the Luftwaffe's prolonged bombardment of one of England's great…
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- ISBN: 978-1-908837-10-3
- EAN: 9781908837103
- Produktnummer: 29061566
- Verlag: Takahe Publishing Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 148 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D0.8 cm 202 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 202
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Chris Arnot was a national freelance feature writer for well over 20 years, writing for The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent and the Daily Telegraph. He is also the author of 10 non-fiction books. Britain's Lost Cricket Festivals was shortlisted for the Cricket Book of the Year in 2014. Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds was acclaimed as a coffee-table classic for and of posterity by Frank Keating in The Guardian and hailed as the best sports book of 2011 by Jim Holden in the Sunday Express. Chris also wrote Small Island by Little Train for the AA and co-wrote The Archers Archives for the BBC.
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