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About Larkin Issue No. 19

About Larkin Issue No.19

Cover illustration
Philip Larkin
By Ralph Steadman
The original cartoon was commissioned for the New Yorker accompanying the review by John Updike of Collected Poems of Philip Larkin, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, New York 2004.

Contents

Page 04
Larkin's Jazz
A composer's response to setting Larkin to music following discussions with the poet.
Peter Dickinson

Page 10
Called in to construct a religion
Teaching & Learning Larkin I - Philip Larkin, children and water
Fred Sedgwick

Page 12
Letter to the Editor
Anthony Thwaite

Page 13
A personal postscript
A former colleague of Philip Larkin reflects on Lucky Jim Country, Leicester
Pamela Hanley

Page 15
Larkin Walks
An announcement and another walk in Warwick
Don Lee

Page 15
Larkin with Women
Ben Brown's drama is playing in Manchester; and a talk by Andrew Motion

Page 16
Teaching Larkin - Sharing a personal Pleasure
Teaching & Learning Larkin II
John Pearson

Page 19
June - Cut Grass
From Plant Culture: Thirteen Seasonal Pieces
Nick Battey

Page 20
Philip Larkin The Whitsun Weddings and the Long Journey Home
Teaching & Learning Larkin III
Charles Mundye

Page 27
Teaching Larkin or How Green was my Intertextual Explosion?
Teaching & Learning Larkin IV
Alex R Falzon

Page 29
Programme of Events 2005

Page 30
Book Reviews
Philip Larkin: Early Poems & Juvenilia, AT Tolly
David Rees, Terry Kelly

Philip Larkin: Subversive Poet, Stephen Cooper
John Osborne

Page 35
Poems
Wes Magee, Norman Jackson

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