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    Plough Quarterly 2020: Regeneration Comic

    Philip Larkin’s “The Trees”

    A Visual Interpretation

    By Julian Peters

    June 9, 2020
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    • Michael King

      Lovely. Thank you for posting. Your piece helps me see Larkin in a new light.

    illustration of The Trees by Philip Larkin
    an illustration of people attending a funeral
    illustration of a coffin at a cemetery
    illustration of houses and trees

    From Philip Larkin: Collected Poems (Faber & Faber, 1993). Used by permission of the publisher.

    Contributed By JulianPeters Julian Peters

    Julian Peters is an illustrator and comic book artist living in Montreal, Canada, who focuses on adapting classical poems into graphic art. His work has been exhibited internationally and published in several poetry and graphic art collections.

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