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.

SP: But these are poems that, if you saw them without an author’s name attached to them, you would struggle to think of them as the work of Philip ... of time, love and the fading of love. Do you ...

The title of Howard Jacobson’s 17th novel comes from the famous last line of Philip Larkin’s poem “An Arundel Tomb”: “What will survive of us is love”. Larkin wrote the poem after ...

Neither friends, colleagues nor lovers of the poet Philip Larkin have been sufficiently kind to his memory ... Maeve, who died recently, was the Roman Catholic girl who became a muse for dozens of ...