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About Larkin Issue No. 10

About Larkin Issue No.10

Cover illustration
Part of a letter of 19 October 1970, written to Maeve Brennan from All Souls College Oxford, where Larkin was working on the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse
Photograph © The Estate of Philip Larkin

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

Contents

Page 04
Story I: January - July 1941 (Coventry-Oxford-Warwick)
Short Story
Philip Larkin ed James Booth

Page 21
'Do Be Serious!': John Wain and Philip Larkin
David Gerard

Page 23
A Visit from Philip Larkin
Isobel Fakes

Page 24
Philip Larkin Sat on My Bed
Poem
Isobel Fakes

Page 25
Larkin's Bust at St John's College Oxford
James Booth

Page 25
Making a Bronze Portrait of Philip Larkin
Tony Stones

Page 27
An Agreeable Something: An Enormous Yes : Alan Bennett and Patrick Garland in Hull
David Wheatley

Page 29
Larkin Study Day in Coventry
Richard Palmer

Page 32
Anthony Thwaite in Newcastle: 'Philip Larkin: Fifteen Years Later'
William Radice

Page 33
'I Never Knew God Played Snooker'
Poem
John Miles

Page 34
Larkin's Oxford: The Birthday Walk
David Gerard

Page 36
My Night with Philip Larkin
Poem
Rachel Loden

Page 37
B. J. Leggett: Larkin's Blues: Jazz, Popular Music & Poetry
Richard Palmer and John White

Page 39
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