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About Larkin Issue No. 09

About Larkin Issue No.09

Cover illustration
June 1964: Betty Mackereth hands Larkin the plans of Stage 2 of the Library, watched by Maeve Brennan, Arthur Wood (Deputy Librarian) and David Sheldon (Reader's Services). On the desk is a model of the projected building
Photograph © University of Hull Photographic and Copy Service

This issue of About Larkin was sponsored by St. John's College, Oxford

Contents

Page 04
Larkin: A Left View
Terry Eagleton

Page 09
Philip Larkin: 'A sense of duty'
Graham Stroud

Page 14
Larkin, Llewelyn Powys, Love and Death
Martin Blyth

Page 16
Prelude
Poem
David Gerard

Page 17
This is the Muse: A Reading of 'Waiting for Breakfast while she brushed her hair'
Ian Bradley

Page 20
From a Provincial Town
Ian Parks

Page 21
Toad Tale
Graham Landon

Page 22
Larkin with Women, by Ben Brown, directed by Alan Strachan, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, 5-27 Nov. 1999
Maeve Brennan

Page 26
The Right Rev. William Westwood (1925-1999)
Obituary
Maeve Brennan

Page 27
Love Will Keep
Poem
James L Orwin

Page 28
'Larkin and Love' by Winifred Dawson. Earlsdon Library, Coventry, 26 Jan. 2000
Marie Evans

Page 29
In Blenhiem Street
Poem
Monica Cheale

Page 30
Programme of Events: 2000

Page 31
Notice board