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The Larkin Trail
The Larkin Trail: Discover a poet’s landscape
The Larkin Trail Launch and FREE Guided Tours
The Trail will feature 25 sites, including buildings, streets, parks and other key locations where Larkin lived, worked, visited or which inspired his poetry. The beautiful bespoke signage for the Trail (which we're keeping under wraps at present!) gives visitors an insight into Larkin's life and the chance to sample his poetry. Each sign is unique, specific to the location and to its particular links to Larkin's life and times. Everything from the typography to the shape and materials of the sign has been designed by United Creatives with that particular location in mind.
The website, by Human Design, echoes the signage, enabling visitors to enjoy a virtual visit of every location on the Trail. Photographs of and by Larkin, music, writing and images created by the Larkin25 programme, a podcast of the City Centre Trail, audio files of Larkin reading his work, and much more, will be accessible through this rich online resource.
Further information will be contained within a leaflet forming a guide to the Trail and more extensive information, including audio material, will be available via a mobile website.
The Larkin Trail: Discover a poet’s landscape
The Larkin Trail Launch and FREE Guided Tours
The Trail will be unveiled at the Hull Royal Hotel on Wednesday 20th April.
On Tuesday 26th April and Tuesday 3rd May, Paul Schofield will lead guided trail walks of the City Centre trail. The tours will start at 2pm prompt from the reception lounge at the hotel. Places are limited and booking is advisable- please email info@tourhull.com to secure your place. Tours take 2 – 2.5 hours, and close at Hull History Centre.
Stretching across the centre of Hull, through suburbs and villages along the Humber estuary, the Larkin Trail will take visitors on a tour of sites which were significant to Philip Larkin, linking different aspects of his life and work to a sense of place and locality. The trail, with content by Glynis Charlton, is based on the book, Philip Larkin's Hull and East Yorkshire, by Dr Jean Hartley, who with her then husband George at the Marvell Press, published Larkin's first full collection of poems, The Less Deceived.
Larkin25 are working with specialist organisations to deliver the Larkin Trail, with project management from Groundwork in Hull, and creative input from Human Design (digital media consultants) and United Creatives (signage design, manufacture and installation).
On Tuesday 26th April and Tuesday 3rd May, Paul Schofield will lead guided trail walks of the City Centre trail. The tours will start at 2pm prompt from the reception lounge at the hotel. Places are limited and booking is advisable- please email info@tourhull.com to secure your place. Tours take 2 – 2.5 hours, and close at Hull History Centre.
Stretching across the centre of Hull, through suburbs and villages along the Humber estuary, the Larkin Trail will take visitors on a tour of sites which were significant to Philip Larkin, linking different aspects of his life and work to a sense of place and locality. The trail, with content by Glynis Charlton, is based on the book, Philip Larkin's Hull and East Yorkshire, by Dr Jean Hartley, who with her then husband George at the Marvell Press, published Larkin's first full collection of poems, The Less Deceived.
Larkin25 are working with specialist organisations to deliver the Larkin Trail, with project management from Groundwork in Hull, and creative input from Human Design (digital media consultants) and United Creatives (signage design, manufacture and installation).
The Trail will feature 25 sites, including buildings, streets, parks and other key locations where Larkin lived, worked, visited or which inspired his poetry. The beautiful bespoke signage for the Trail (which we're keeping under wraps at present!) gives visitors an insight into Larkin's life and the chance to sample his poetry. Each sign is unique, specific to the location and to its particular links to Larkin's life and times. Everything from the typography to the shape and materials of the sign has been designed by United Creatives with that particular location in mind.
The website, by Human Design, echoes the signage, enabling visitors to enjoy a virtual visit of every location on the Trail. Photographs of and by Larkin, music, writing and images created by the Larkin25 programme, a podcast of the City Centre Trail, audio files of Larkin reading his work, and much more, will be accessible through this rich online resource.
Further information will be contained within a leaflet forming a guide to the Trail and more extensive information, including audio material, will be available via a mobile website.
The diverse Trail takes you on a journey through Larkin’s Hull, which today remains very much ‘a working city, yet one neither clenched in the blackened grip of the industrial revolution nor hiding behind a cathedral to pretend it is York or Canterbury’.
The Larkin Trail
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The Larkin Trail: Discover a poet’s landscape The Larkin Trail Launch and FREE Guided Tours The Trail will be unveiled at the Hull... More
Larkin25 Major Commission
In conjunction with our commissions partner, Hull City Arts, we are delighted to announce that Guardian politics and music writer John... More
Larkin Open Commissions
Two rounds of open commissions have been held as part of Larkin25, in partnership with Hull City Arts, to support local... More
Joe Johnson Commission
I responded to an article in the Hull Daily Mail, asking local people to apply for commissions as part of the... More
Letters to Monica
Letters to Monica In October 2010, the much anticipated new publication, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica, edited by Anthony Thwaite, was published... More
Music programme
As well as a poet, librarian and photographer, Larkin was a fervent music fan and critic. Our music programme is well... More
Larkin on the Buses
Look out for the Philip Larkin bus! On 5 July the East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) bus was officially named after... More
Larkin on Film
Larkin's life and work has inspired filmmakers for decades. In association with Hull History Centre, Hull Film and Glimmer, the Hull... More
Larkin with Toads
Not long to go until the Toads arrive! Larkin with Toads is a 10 week, mass participation public art extravaganza - the biggest... More