For their first episode together, recorded in 2017, Mark Ford and Seamus Perry look at the life and work of Philip Larkin, a poet written about extensively in the archive of the London Review of Books ...

but the profound clarity of his poems showed me a… Larkin argues that those who don’t fear death are deluding themselves, but as I age I realise that he misses… He had a gift for wisecracks, but the ...

Across ten programmes and ten Philip Larkin poems, Simon Armitage, the poet laureate, finds out what happens when he revisits and unpicks Larkin's work in his centenary year. Show more Across ten ...

Philip Larkln—St. Martin’s ($4.50). When he graduated from Oxford in 1943, Poet Philip Larkin dreamed of becoming a famous novelist and living on the Riviera “like Somerset Maugham.” ...

Larkin Statue in Hull Slowly, because his output has been said to average two-and-a-half poems a year. Among these works was a collection of 32 poems titled The Whitsun Weddings, which when ...

Griff Rhys Jones:Philip Larkin thought that the principle aim or intention of a poem should be to encapsulate, to evoke in fact, a very unique and specific emotional feeling and that without it ...

This story appears in the April 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. If I were called in / To construct a religion / I should make use of water, wrote the English poet Philip Larkin in 1954 ...