Think you're having a bad day? Spare a thought for poor Tom Cook.
Cook is a poet and "ambling postgraduate" at Oxford University. And it seems he had something of a coup for The Times Literary Supplement:
That's right: an unpublished Philip Larkin poem. Which was proudly put on the TLS website...
...and promptly taken down again. Why? Because there turned out out be a slight problem. That problem being: this previously unpublished Philip Larkin poem wasn't actually by Philip Larkin.
Yes, as Michael Caines points out in his piece, 'In And Out' - despite being "so perfectly (too perfectly?) Larkinesque" is, in fact, by a poet called Frank Redpath.
Tom Cook immediately tweeted a quote by TS Eliot (at least, we think it's by him):
And several links to further explanations. But not before Twitter had a field day with the discovery...
Of course, in Cook's defence...
Indeed. And Cook himself took it all in good part:
Still, we don't think the surprising Larkin poems are going to stop any time soon...
Well, indeed. How were we supposed to know?