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About Larkin Issue No. 05

About Larkin Issue No.05

Cover illustration
Photograph of an untitled painting by Jim Sutton which greatly impressed Philip Larkin. Sutton believed it may have had an indirect bearing on the poem 'High Winodws'.

We are grateful to Mrs Daphne Ingram, Jim Sutton's daughter, for allowing us to reproduce this picture.

Contents

Page 04
Philip Larkin: an American View
Dale Salwak

Page 07
Larkin's Letters to America

Page 08
The Least Deceived
William H. Pritchard

Page 10
Mr Larkin Gets a Life
Review, A talk by Harry Chambers
Joseph Epstein

Page 16
A Visit from Philip Larkin
Poem
Robert Sargent

Page 17
A Reading of Larkin's 'For Sidney Bechet'
V. Penelope Pelizzon

Page 19
'Publishing Poetry'
Review of the society event
Wes Magee

Page 20
'Creating Harmony by Investigating Discord'
Review, A talk by Richard Palmer
Jules Smith

Page 22
'I remember, I remember'
News
Peter Walters

Page 23
Coventry Plaque Unveiling
News
Don Lee

Page 24
James Ballard Sutton
Obituary
Maeve Brennan

Page 27
Future Society Events

Page 28
Larkin Day-School in Bristol
News
Richard Camp

Page 29
Larkin at Work: a study of Larkin's mode of composition as seen in his workbooks  by Professor A T Tolley
Book Review
John Whitehead

Page 30
The Long Shadows  by Alan Brownjohn
Book Review
John Mowat

Page 31
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