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 ...

Clive James has suffered – and profited, of course – from this more local spectacle. Most of us know him best as a licensed ...

The critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe transfer Almost Instinct, Almost True is the poignant darkly comic story of poet Philip Larkin’s neglected lover Monica, and her adoring student Tommy.

I’m calling this column “Turkey, Revisited”, after “Toads, Revisited” by Philip Larkin, a poet who was most definitely not a gourmand (“I was too lazy to buy rations in London ...

James R. Hagerty, known as Bob, is based in Pittsburgh and writes obituaries and other feature stories for The Wall Street ...

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.