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About Larkin Issue No. 08

About Larkin Issue No.08

Cover illustration
Brenda Moon
With the personal cards and letters which she donated to the Brynmor Jones Library on the occasion of her talk to the Society, 24 February, 1999.
Photograph © Don Lee

Contents

Page 04
Andrew Motion: Poet Laureate
Anthony Thwaite

Page 05
Working with Philip Larkin
Brenda Moon

Page 12
Nowhereman
J. Douglas Porteous

Page 18
The 1999 Coventry Godiva Festival Weekend
Don Lee

Page 20
Poets of Hull Promenade
Gloria Gaffney

Page 23
Verses begun in an unaccustomed mood of pessimism offered to Larkin's ghost
Poem
Alison Mace

Page 24
Larkin and the 1940s: Conference: Two views
Joseph Bailey; Steve Cooper

Page 27
Wellington Walkabout
David Gerard

Page 31
'Hello Central' Reference Back: Philip Larkin's Uncollected Jazz Writings 1940-1984, ed. Richard Palmer and John White; foreward Alan Plater
Book Review
John Miles

Page 33
York
Poem
Monice Cheale

Page 34
Provisional Programme of Events

Page 35
Noticeboard