Philip Larkin black plaque


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# Philip Larkin at King's Cross Standing beneath this plaque at King's Cross, you're at the threshold of one of Larkin's most profound poetic moments—the very station where he frequently arrived and departed during his years moving between Hull and London, watching from train windows as the city ma...
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King's Cross
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We slowed again, And as the tightened brakes took hold, there swelled A sense of falling, like an arrow-shower Sent out of sight, somewhere becoming rain.