In Competition No. 3302, you were invited to compose a dating app profile for a writer of your choice.
To mark the centenary last year of Philip Larkin’s birth, the poet Imtiaz Dharker wrote ‘Swiping left on Larkin’ in which she imagined how, given his complicated relationship with intimacy, the poet would present himself on such an app.
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