Hull will be City of culture 2017. Like many others I found myself jumping up and down (secretly in the kitchen before breakfast) and moved to tears this morning... A city coming out of the shadows. Well done Hull!
And thus, some more dreams among Humber Dreams became true today...
See images in last post.
I like these lines by Philip Larkin from Hull's bidding video portrait.
So, I had to transcribe this 'poem'*, click a line to see the film.
a place cannot produce poems
it can only not prevent them
and Hull is good at that
for Hull has its own sudden elegancies
people are slow to leave it
quick to return
and there are others
who come for a year or two
and stay a lifetime
sensing that they found a city
that is in the world
yet sufficiently on the edge of it
to have a different resonance.
*In fact the lines stem from the foreword to 'A Rumoured City: New Poets from Hull'
