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Unread 04-04-2021, 02:12 PM
W T Clark W T Clark is offline
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Originally Posted by conny View Post
Nah. Some people despise him, for various obvious reasons, but boring
is not a word that applies. I get that some people might try and put the
boot in every now and again, but he’s Teflon. Things just slide off without
sticking. That’s how I know how good he is/was. Betjeman said he was the
John Clare of the council estates, which I think is about right.

We'll have to agree to disagree then. I'm not sure everything slides off, though. The contemporary scene has more modernism in it than Larkin.
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