To mark 40 years since the death of Philip Larkin in December 1985, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and ...

A few years ago, for a birthday treat, I went to Hull. I wanted to walk The Larkin Trail, a tour of various workaday locations that held some significance to the poet Philip Larkin. It took me to the ...

In his valuable collection of essays and reviews, Required Writing, Philip Larkin wondered–in a piece about Sir John Betjeman–“Can it be that, as Eliot dominated the first half of the twentieth ...

The centenary Tuesday of the birth of the late Philip Larkin invites some reflections on his gloom. “Death is no different whined at than withstood,” the poet wrote in “Aubade,” published in 1977 in ...

Stewart Mottram receives funding from Arts and Humanities Research Council. The research for this article was undertaken with colleagues from the University of Hull's Larkin Centre for Poetry and ...

In the fall of 1958, the second book by a young British poet named Philip Larkin made it across the ocean and into the consciousness of American poetry. By signing up, you confirm that you are over ...

Leave this “overstuffed” volume to the university libraries, said Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times. It “seems to include every scrap of verse” that Philip Larkin ever wrote, even on Christmas ...

August 9 marks the centenary of Philip Larkin, one of the most admired poets of the twentieth century. When Larkin died of esophageal cancer in 1985 at 63, he was England’s most beloved living poet.

LONDON (Reuters) - Philip Larkin is to be honoured with a memorial stone in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, to be laid alongside those of some of the most revered names in English language poetry ...

Smith College will present a reading by Joan Larkin, the college’s new Grace Hazard Conkling Poet in Residence, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 16, in Stoddard Hall Auditorium. The reading is free, open ...