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Spectator competition winners: Philip Larkin’s poems rewritten by other poets

17 September 2022

9:00 AM

17 September 2022

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3266, you were invited to reimagine one of Philip Larkin’s poems in the style of a poet of your choice.

This challenge was a nod to the centenary last month of the poet’s birth, the response to which – though the Philip Larkin Society was upbeat: ‘so much is happening!’ – seemed somewhat muted.

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