Wires

On Sunday I'm going to Hull, to retrace the footsteps of one of the most famous university librarians, poet Philip Larkin. I'll be gathering material for a journal article, and I started a bit of research tonight. I'm totally amazed at how much is available online - photos, a BBC Monitor programme from the 1960s, newspaper and journal articles of course, a downloadable version of a jazz compilation album and much more, including this freely available audio book of Larkin reading his own poems. He comes much more to life than just reading about him - though I'm not yet ready to agree that "books are a load of crap" as he asserted in A study of reading habits. Hope to post some photos of my trip on Sunday/Monday.