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A celebration of the life and work of Norfolk poet Anthony Thwaite will take place in London on Friday. The 'Remembering Anthony Thwaite' event will see well-known writers reading from Thwaite's ...
Michael Grandage's My Master Builder is billed as a reinvention of Ibsen's play of almost the same name through a modern, ...
Here Hardy delivers yet another of what might be termed his “Funny Accent” performances, where he adopts some weird-ass voice ...
Writing to Monica Jones in 1954, Philip Larkin describes his mother, Eva: she is ‘nervy, cowardly, obsessional, boring, grumbling, irritating, self-pitying. It’s no use telling her to alter: you might ...
When the young Philip Larkin – mole-like ... deprivation – tend to be seen as wholly characteristic of Larkin’s poetry, and one can, reviewing his life and work, understand why this view pertains.
Bliss and loss go together. This is an old idea in poetry. “Recuerdo” can be classified as an aubade — from “aube,” the ...
They fuck you up your Mum and Dad; they may not mean to, but they do.” These lines from Philip Larkin’s 1975 poem, “This Be ...
Poetry Moment Presented by Spokane Public Radio, Poetry Moment is a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally ...
It's a shame and a sad state of affairs that Dylan Larkin points the finger at Steve Yzerman for the Red Wings performance. Larkin only needs to take a look in the mirror to see the one who needs ...