High Windows Bio25 'Reads like an instant fairytale

'Reads like an instant fairytale classic’ – 5* Reader Review 'An elegant

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Erika Mann and Janet Flanner

High Windows Bio25 'Reads like an instant fairytaleLarkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best known pieces ('The Old Fools', 'This Be the Verse', 'The Explosion', and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death and transience that is so typical of the poet. Rather than words comes the