I am very interested to hear that Philip Larkin’s flat is being honoured with a blue plaque (Report, 17 July).
What people should also know is that the composer John Joubert lived in this same flat in the 1960s when a lecturer in music at Hull University and is a composer of 160 works including two symphonies, violin, piano, cello, oboe and bassoon concertos, and seven operas. He has a major choral output including Christmas carols.
His most famous carol is Torches, which was written for his wife who was teaching at a school in Hull. Joubert is 90 and still composing. I would like to suggest that another blue plaque be added to the same building to celebrate its other famous inhabitant.
Linda Gresham
Birmingham
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