In the words of Marie Ponsot, “Joan Larkin’s high-wire poetic acts unite both electric tension and steadfast balance. Deft, probing language surges in these poems, to the music of free verse, metric ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Collection of Larkin’s Poetry Philip Larkin’s work has a timeless way of capturing Hull’s soul. His words resonate with anyone who’s spent time here. A beautifully bound collection of ...