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About Larkin Issue No. 04

About Larkin Issue No.04

Cover illustration
'The lifted study-storehouse'
Photograph of the Brynmor Jones library, showing the library tower, taken from the south-facing side of the building.
Photograph © University of Hull Photographic & Copy Service, Brynmor Jones Library.

Contents

Page 04
'My Particular Talents'
Larkin's 42-year career as a librarian
Richard Goodman

Page 12
Letter from Philip Larkin to his parents dated 18.xii.43

Page 13
Huddled Teabreaks in the Cupboard
Pamela Hanley

Page 15
Neither did he write Cents and Sensibility
Poem
John Mowat

Page 16
A Library for Poetry
Mary Enright

Page 17
His Last Extravagance
Poem
Norman Jackson

Page 18
Larkin's Management Style
Lionel Madden

Page 21
Philip Larkin, Bibliography and the Professional Attitude
Maeve Brennan

Page 22
Rome is so Bad
Poem
Maurice Rutherford

Page 23
'New Larkin's for Old'
James Booth

Page 25
'We remember, we remember'
Ian Bradley

Page 27
The Coventry Birthday Walk
Don Lee

Page 28
Future Society Events

Page 29
Philip Larkin: Contemporary Critical Essays edited by Stephen Regan
Book review
John Osborne

Page 31
Noticeboard

Back Cover
Hapless Anniversary
Poem
David Gerard