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High Windows

Simon Armitage explores Philip Larkin's poem High Windows.

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.

Episode five:
Simon Armitage explores Philip Larkin's poem High Windows.

High Windows was described by one reviewer as speaking 'plainly of a feeling of exclusion from sexual happiness’. But does its swearing, and its transcendent imagery - 'the deep blue air' - still hold a charge for us today?

Producer: Faith Lawrence
Mixed by: Sue Stonestreet

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14 minutes

Last on

Fri 12 Aug 2022 13:45

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  • Fri 12 Aug 2022 13:45