Talking in Bed

August 2013 Nomination: Talking in Bed [10 August 1960. From The Whutsun Weddings] I admire this poem because it frames so precisely, and with poignance, the problems of “honesty” that almost inevitably attend intimacy. ‘Talking in Bed’ appears in Philip Larkin’s 1964 volume The

Talking in Bed

March 2003 Nomination: Talking in Bed [10 August 1960. From The Whitsun Weddings] I chose ‘Talking in Bed’ because it is at once so simple and so profoundly philosophical, obviously situated in the context of two humans, fighting against their own alienation and

Talking in Bed

Talking in Bed

Talking in Bed

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