Windfalls and tinned sardines

With the tributes to Alan Plater still echoing, news comes in that another jazz-loving adopted son of Hull is to be commemorated, with a city-wide shindig called Larkin25. Events include Larkin With Toads, a public art event that is intended to “brighten up working days and holidays alike for Hull visitors and residents alike”; a novel response to a poem that sees employment in a rather less flattering light:

Six days of the week it soils
With its sickening poison –
Just for paying a few bills!
That’s out of proportion.

Maybe they should also stage a Larkinesque celebration of parenthood.