High Windows by Philip Larkin #literature Fragrance Description: The sweet and

Fragrance Description: The sweet and fruity scent of Christmas

Faced with such a macabre crime

Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie’s victims

that comes from the core of the cook

Publication: 5 Oct 2017

High Windows by Philip Larkin #literature Fragrance Description: The sweet andLarkin'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