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Previous Events
Saturday 7th June 2008
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Annual General Meeting With Guest Lecturer Anthony Thwaite
The Lawns Conference Centre, Cottingham, East Yorkshire (The University of Hull).
Annual general meeting 11:30am, followed by a series of events, activities, book sale, exhibitionsand a buffet lunch to be followed by our distinguished guest lecture:
Anthony Thwaite (President of the Philip Larkin Society)
Philip to Monica - The Poet's most intimate letters
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2:00pm Saturday 19 April 2008
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The Brynmor Jones Library Archives Revisited
The Brynmor Jones Library, The University of Hull.
Judy Burg, the University's Archivist, ably hosted the Society's visit to Larkin's library; including access to.
- Larkin letters including the recently-acquired correspondence with his parents
- Larkin photographs
- Other Larkinalia including spectacles and toads
Judy laid on veritable banquet of documents, photographs and other Larkinalia for this select gathering - strictly limited in number for security reasons. Brenda Moon, Larkin's former Deputy in the Library came down from Scotland to meet up again with her former colleagues from Larkin's day, Eddie Dawes, Chair of the Library Committee, and Betty Mackereth, Larkin's Secretary. Unsurprisingly, Don Lee went away with several intriguing new leads and questions to be followed up.
Click here to see pictures of the 2008 Archive Visit
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9:30am - 3:30pm Thursday 13th March 2008
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The Philip Larkin Society in conjunction with Wyke Sixth Form College
The Annual Sixth Form Study Day on Larkin's Poetry
The Lyndsey Suite, Staff House, The University of Hull.
The latest in the Larkin Society's series of annual Study Days for A-Level students was ably coordinated by Belinda Hakes, Head of English at Wyke College and former editor of About Larkin. It was a bustling event attended by 170 students from five colleges in Hull, Newcastle, Sheffield, Rotherham and Grimsby.
James Booth talked about 'Living Rooms and Dying Rooms in the Work of Philip Larkin', and Charles Mundye from the Scarborough Campus gave a vivid lecture on 'Larkin, Memory and History', illustrated with images of Coventry and the Great War. Belinda Hakes led workshops on 'The Essential Larkin'.
After lunch the students gave their own presentations. Set the task of creating a cover for a selected edition of Larkin's poetry, they came up with some imaginative images. Then came a first-hand personal account, 'Larkin's Love of Life', by Larkin's erstwhile publisher, Jean Hartley, and the proceedings ended with a highly animated question and answer session involving all the speakers.
Click here to see pictures of the 2008 Study Day
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7:30pm Thursday 17th January 2008
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Jane Thomas: Larkin's Hardy
The Tranby Room, Staff House, The University of Hull.
A leading Hardy expert on Larkin's revealing choices of Hardy's poetry in the Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse
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7:30pm Wednesday 5th December 2007
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James Connelly - 'I asked for water and they gave me gasoline': Philip Larkin's jazz
The Tranby Room, Staff House, The University of Hull.
Hull's newest Professor of Politics on Larkin's musical passions and prejudices - with illustrations
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Friday 29th June to Sunday 1st July 2007
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Larkin's Elsewheres
The Lawns Conference Centre, Cottingham, East Yorkshire (The University of Hull).
The 3rd Hull International Conference on the work of Philip Larkin. In association with The Philip Larkin Centre for Poetry, The University of Hull
Click here to see pictures of the 2007 conference
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Saturday 9th June 2007
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Annual General Meeting With Guest Lecturer Colin Dexter
Middleton Hall, The University of Hull.
Annual general meeting 11:30am, followed by a series of events, activities, book sale, exhibitionsand a buffet lunch to be followed by our distinguished guest lecture:
Colin Dexter (creator of Inspector Morse)
Something to Declare - A look back at a lifetime of poetry
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Click here to see pictures of the 2007 AGM
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