Time, place, and poetry …

… Sean O'Brien - Hull Revisited | Literary Review | Issue 488. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Larkin’s work, however ‘beat-up’ or peculiar its author may have been, survives in the collective memory, and if people have a reason to imagine Hull, they will often do so through Larkin’s evocation of the place. I’ve long since ceased to be able to distinguish the city from the poems.