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Simon Armitage, the poet laureate, unpicks Philip Larkin's poems in his centenary year.

Across ten programmes and ten Philip Larkin poems, Simon Armitage, the poet laureate, finds out what happens when he revisits and unpicks Larkin's work in his centenary year.

Across ten programmes and ten iconic Phillip Larkin poems, Simon Armitage, the poet laureate, finds out what happens when he unpicks Larkin's poems in his centenary year, and lets the language that entered the culture resonate as he goes about his own life as a poet.

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Larkin Revisited: To the Sea

To the Sea

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Simon Armitage explores Philip Larkin's poem To the Sea.

Across ten programmes and ten poems, Simon Armitage, the Poet Laureate, finds out what happens when he revisits Philip Larkin's work in his centenary year.

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Simon Armitage explores Philip Larkin's poem 'To the Sea', a poem which describes how everything 'crowds under the low horizon' at the beach in high summer.  

Larkin wrote once that holidays stemmed from 'a romantic notion that it will all be better at Frinton or Venice', but this is one of his most celebratory poems. Does 'To the Sea' still speak to us today?

Producer: Faith Lawrence
Mixed by: Sue Stonestreet

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