The Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen’s remark about only feeling at home on the boat between Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire could easily apply to the poet David Wheatley, who was born in Dublin and moved to Hull to teach at the university. He had a flat close to Pearson Park, where Larkin had lived and “shopped […] The post ‘My Back Pages’ appeared first on TLS.
