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 ...

The poet Philip Larkin was invited to write a prologue in verse. The result was not quite as bland as the Government had expected. The poem was called ‘Going, Going’. The very title indicated ...