Letter: Praising Philip Larkin and all librarians

Letter: I write in praise of Philip Larkin and Wellington librarians, past and present.

For 20 years I lived and worked in and around Wellington. The library was central to my life as a reader and as a teacher.

As I ploughed my way through Proust and Popper and Faulkner and Darwin, I picked up the story of Larkin's connections with my home town, and was thrilled to imagine the shade of him waiting by, as I dashed in to change my books on my way from work.