I took a few more shots of Larkin's somewhat grotesque statue in Paragon Station the other day with a view to using them at some point in the future. He's always good for a post on a dull day is my view. Well it seems the dull day has arrived rather quicker than I expected as it's been announced that the man who handed on misery to man is to be honoured, if that's the right word, in Westminster Abbey's poets' corner. Would it be going too far to say that the Abbey is jumping on the city of culture bandwagon? Perhaps. The ceremony, on December 2 2016, will take place only days before the start of the Culture fest in 2017. The custom used to be to bury the famous scribes in the Abbey but nowadays they just lay a named floor stone. I'm thinking a pair of entwined bicycle clips or a hedgehog would be a fitting extra decoration anything but toads ....
They've no doubt run out of room for burials in the Abbey. I like the mood in the shot.
ReplyDeleteWilliam K, you stole my comment entirely.
ReplyDeleteBicycle clips and spectacles :)
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a case of bandwagon jumping. I have to admit that I quite like the statue - though I tend not to look at it from the front. As here
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