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 ...

The author of the immortal opening couplet, “They fuck you up, your mum and dad/They may not mean to, but they do," the poet Philip Larkin (1922-85) was in 2008 voted “the greatest British writer" of ...

A letter written by poet and librarian Philip Larkin to a colleague shortly before his death has been sold for £870. The handwritten note was sent to Marie Cooper, his long-time colleague at the ...

The world of Philip Larkin’s verse is far from glamorous. His natural habitat was English suburbia, a realm of grey dawns, hollow afternoons and low horizons. He spent most of his adult life working ...

The poems of British master Philip Larkin (1922–1985), one of the great mid-century poets in English, have had a frustrating life since the death of their author: this is the third book of Larkin ...

The story of Philip Larkin has been told many times, said John Carey in The Sunday Times. John Sutherland’s new book, however, is “singular” in focusing on the poet’s long-term girlfriend, Monica ...

The author of the immortal opening couplet, "They fuck you up, your mum and dad/They may not mean to, but they do," the poet Philip Larkin (1922-85) was in 2008 voted "the greatest British writer" of ...

A letter written by poet and librarian Philip Larkin to a colleague shortly before his death is to be auctioned. The handwritten note was sent to Marie Cooper, his long-time colleague at the ...