British E-Verser Dr. Dan visited Coventry this past weekend and sends in a picture of poet Philip Larkin’s star on the walk of fame there:

The Priory Plaza in Coventry has a series of pavement stars – see photo. Side by side we have Philip Larkin and Billie Whitelaw. The latter was Samuel Beckett’s favourite actress, for whom he specifically wrote key pieces. Strangely, both she and Larkin moved from bleak Coventry to urban Yorkshire, the only territory in England that is even more bleak.

“Cut Grass” by Philip Larkin

Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale.
Long, long the death

It dies in the white hours
Of young-leafed June
With chestnut flowers,
With hedges snowlike strewn,

White lilac bowed,
Lost lanes of Queen Anne’s lace,
And that high-builded cloud
Moving at summer’s pace.