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How Philip Larkin f****d me up

20 April 2019

9:00 AM

20 April 2019

9:00 AM

I first came across Philip Larkin’s poem ‘This Be the Verse’ when I was 18 in the late 1970s. You know the one: ‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean to, but they do…’

I was working as a volunteer in a care home for physically handicapped adults in Camden, north London.

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