This is Episode 87 of Poems for the Speed of Life.

It is the first time Philip Larkin has featured on this podcast but it's unlikely to be the last.

Larkin was a 20th century English poet, writer and career librarian. He is raw, rambunctious, rude, sometimes lewd.

This poem, "Money", is Larkin’s reflection on the role of cash and consumerism in life. It was first published in 1973 and half a century on, as all of us — at least in the so-called West — try to make a living amid rising inflation, interest rate hikes, pension fund problems and next-day Amazon Prime delivery of a billion items, it is probably even more relevant today than it was back then.

Read "Money" by Philip Larkin here

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