Celebrating the Spoken Word: Church Going by Phillip Larkin

Our Continuing Engagement

“Poetry is not a means to an end, but a continuing engagement with being alive.”  -  Kim Addonizio

Here's to our continuing engagement!

Phillip Larkin said a poem “represents the mastering, even if just for a moment, of the pessimism and the melancholy, and enables you, you the poet, and you, the reader, to go on.”

So here is Phillip Larkin reading his poem, "Church Going."

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