“Do you know the Philip Larkin poem ‘Aubade’?” he asks. “When you’re younger, you think, ‘Gee, that’s so felicitous, that’s a fun poem.’ But when you get older, it ...

Charles Dickens burned hundreds of his own, to cover up his infidelity to his wife. Poet Philip Larkin, a cautious man, ordered his letters to be shredded first, then burned. Jane Austen wrote ...

He takes a look at Philip Larkin’s extraordinary poem Going, Going, conceived at the exact moment Britain and the world were waking up to the environmental cost of progress; the poetry of Seamus ...

Sitting through Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man, I was reminded constantly of Philip Larkin's snarky, forthright poem "This Be the Verse." "They fuck you up, your mum and dad. / They may not mean to ...

The poet, who trained as a teacher ... The death of the countryside was foretold by that cranky old sod Philip Larkin, who was a city dweller. He was a librarian, for goodness sake, but he ...

Oddly enough, two of them are Irish. He takes a look at Philip Larkin’s poem Going, Going, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, and the agitprop Scottish play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black Black Oil.

That title is misleading, as is the identical declaration of trade on the poet's tombstone. Larkin wrote, and wrote well, but he did not write for a living. Those of his generation (to my shock I wake ...

Key figures from British politics past and present headed to the Humber region today to pay their respects to the 'unique, remarkable, and extraordinary' former deputy prime minister ...

Key figures from British politics past and present paid their respects to the 'unique, remarkable, and extraordinary' former Hull MP and deputy prime minister ...

As poet Philip Larkin once wrote, "They [mess] you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had, And add some extra, just for you." RELATED ...

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner read the poem Here by Hull-based poet Philip Larkin, and Sir Keir Starmer read from Psalm 107. Hosted by the Rev Canon Dominic Black, the service included singing ...