Ghosts by Philip Larkin

31/10/2025 9 min

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To mark Halloween, Lyn takes us on a walk around her local cemetery and reads Ghosts by Philip Larkin.Thank you to Joe Riley for inspiration - please listen to his excellent in situ poetry podcast Sketch Poetryhttps://open.spotify.com/show/4Ubm0zfLmjrOqVqMWulgf0Spooky music- thank you to https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/ghost-stories/1291Read the poem here:https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/ernxrt/poem_ghosts_by_philip_larkin/orhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Poems-Philip-Larkin/dp/0571240062The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin ed. Archie Burnett (Faber and Faber, 2012)Theme music:The Horns of the Morning by Wes Finch and the Mechanicals Bandhttps://themechanicalsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-righteous-jazzProduced by Lyn Lockwood and Gavin Hogg