Larkin
There is this statue
Of a man in a hurry
At Hull Interchange
Looks like he’s heading into town
A man with glasses
And a suit
Like they wore
In the olden days
People say he was a poet
One of Hull’s finest
One of England’s finest even
But he never wrote for children
Until the statue comes alive
In a book you may read one day
This poem is all that you have
To read about him
Of a man in a hurry
At Hull Interchange
Looks like he’s heading into town
A man with glasses
And a suit
Like they wore
In the olden days
People say he was a poet
One of Hull’s finest
One of England’s finest even
But he never wrote for children
Until the statue comes alive
In a book you may read one day
This poem is all that you have
To read about him
This poem is copyright (©) Pramod Subbaraman 2025
About the Writer
Pramod Subbaraman
Pramod Subbaraman is a poet from India who lives in Hull and works in the NHS. He returned to poetry during the first COVID19 lockdown in 2020 and has since been published in the UK, the USA and South Africa. He is particularly fond of fixed form poetry.
