Thanks James. Are you a PLS member? They're a good lot.

Canal with Bridge and Women Washing, 1888 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14262

Friends fear he's writing about Philip Larkin again (and might be writing about him a whole lot more still). jwikeley.substack.com/p/what-are-day

I think "light industry" van Gogh might be my favourite van Gogh

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The Langlois Bridge at Arles with Road Alongside the Canal, 1888 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14453

And now I will have to find said book.

Also suggestions of a mini-Browning-Renaissance in the late 1960s.

Looks like *something* happened in 2020. (Thanks for this, now off to read the Dannie Abse one.)

Yes! Whereas earnestness always gets the benefit of the doubt, however unserious the end it's put to.

Poetry, but Vidyan Ravinthiran's, The Million-Petaled Flower of Being Here [The Old Fools]

Also wonder whether the book/literary world just isn't quite bad at recognising comedy in general. Let alone celebrating it.