Anthony Thwaite

Roo, I was taught at school, the privilege of being taught at school by Andrew Motion, who wrote Philip Larkin, A Writer's Life in the early 1990s.

And I believe that, plus the publication of his letters by Anthony Thwaite, basically revealed a lot of this, a lot of kind of, I think, what people found quite shocking right-wing views, definite racism, pornography.

Any thoughts on that? People talk about post-motion, as in after motion's biography, people viewed Larkin differently to some degree.

Well, I think, not surprisingly, this is a part of who he was.

in this high field strewn with stones i walk by a green mound its edges sheared by the plough crumbs of animal bone lie smashed and scattered round under the clover leaves and slivers of flint seem to grow like white leaves among green in the wind the chestnut heaves where a man's grave has been whatever the barrow held once has been taken away a hollow of nettles and dock lies at the center filled with rain from a sky so gray it reflects nothing at all i poke in the crumbled rock for something they left behind but after that funeral there is nothing at all to find anthony thwaite from the owl in the tree Welcome back to this week's episode of The Well House Exorcism.

This is your ghost of a host of the most, Shanna.

It's Paco PJ.

All that they did was die and all that has happened since means nothing to this place.

Above long clouds the skies turn to a brilliant red and show in the water's face one living and not these dead.

Anthony Thwaite from The Owl in the Tree