As an undergraduate I once heard J.H. Prynne lecture on Wordsworth's 'Old Man Travelling' and for some reason, the experience has never left me. So naturally, when I was casting around for Inktober ideas, I decided to place the pursed-lipped Cambridge poet into a famous scene from Jurassic Park.
Somehow this led to showing the then Oxford Professor of Poetry riding a triceratops over a nemesis (you can tell I never got past The Triumph of Time).
Then it seemed obvious that Philip Larkin would only ride a diplodocus if Kingsley Amis came with him:
And this is Andrew Motion hiding from a Velociraptor, just because.*
*If any editor wants to commission the 'Jurassic Poets' coffeetable book (or the colouring-in version for the younger dinophile fan of modern of poetry), do get in touch...
