LINKS

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• Academic
  • Philip Larkin Collection of Manuscripts & Books at the University of Hull
  
  
• Biographical
  • Literary Heritage West Midlands
  • Philip Larkin's Grave
  • Philip Larkin on Wikipedia
  
  
• Commentaries on Larkin Poems
  • Arrival
    By poet David Wheldon.
  • 'Ambulances', 'The Explosion' and 'Wedding Wind'
    at leavingcertsolutions.com.
  • 'Aubade'
    A N Wilson reflects in the Daily Telegraph on the poem that Maeve Brennan could not bear to read complete, and compares it with Horace and Keats. Interesting - but in the end the critic blinks first..
  
  
• Essays
  • Eros, Thanatos and the negation of the will-to-live in Larkin's poetry
    by Spiros Doikas at www.translatum.gr.
  • High Windows and Four-Letter Words
    A note on Philip Larkin by Stephen Burt. Boston Review.
  • Larkin's Predicament
    by Marcus Herold at the University of Cologne English Department.
  • Sacramentalism in the Poetry of Philip Larkin
    by Don King.
  • "Wanking at ten past three": Larkin's posthumous love poetry
    by Hans Osterwalder (Université de Zurich) .
  
  
• Global Larkin
  • www.translatum.gr Greek language translations by Spiros Doikas of some Larkin poems.
  
  
• Interviews
  • Paris Review 'The Art of Poetry': No. 30 - Philip Larkin.
  
  
• Larkin Web Sites
  • all night north - The website of the project to produce a CD of new musical settings of Larkin's poetry by some of the best songwriters in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
  • www.soundcloud/philiplarkin - with audio of Larkin reading from the 1959 LP recording of The Less Deceived.
  • The Four Aways - Experience and Expectation in the Poetry of Philip Larkin. Another site dedicated to Larkin.
  • larkin25.co.uk Official website for the Larkin 25 commemoration activities.
  
  
• Obituary
  • A tribute to the late poet Philip Larkin by Craig Raine, at The Guardian.
  • Maeve Brennan Obituary by Jean Hartley. (The Guardian - June 19, 2003)
  • Monica Jones Obituary by John Sutherland. (The Guardian - March 15, 2001)
  • Jean Hartley Obituary by Anthony Thwaite. (The Guardian - July 21, 2011)
  • Ruth Siverns Obituary by James Booth. (The Guardian - January 23, 2013)
  
  
• Press Articles
  • Dead poet's Society
    Alan Plater discusses the appeal of Larkin to playrights. (The Guardian - November 27, 2003)
  • How the young Philip Larkin courted Trouble at Willow Gables
    Emma Hartley and Vanessa Thorpe. (The Observer - April 22, 2001)
  • Larkin's lesbians
    by Rachel Cooke. (The Guardian - April 24, 2001)
  • Life limited by love - Larkin with Women
    by Michael Billington. A review of the Ben Brown play Larkin with Women. (The Guardian - November 13, 1999)
  • Revealed: Larkin the Tender Lover
    by John Ezard. (The Guardian - October 15, 1999)
  • Twice Collected: the well-cared-for Poems of Philip Larkin
    by John Updike, reviewing the 2004 US Edition of Larkin's Collected Poems. (The New Yorker - July 26, 2004)
  • Homage to Philip Larkin
    by John Banville, (The New York Review of Books - Volume 53, Number 3. February 23, 2006)
  
  
• Societies
  • Alliance of Literary Societies
  • The Thomas Hardy Society
  • Downloadable review (Doc. file) of the joint Hardy Society/Larkin Society event in Hull (October 2012)
  
  
• Student Resources
  • Larkin: A Helpfile at Roger Dover at Wrexham - North East Wales Institute of Higher Eductaion
  • Philip Larkin's Poetics by Ellen Moore at Virginia Commonwealth University.
  
  
• Trails and Visitor attractions
  • Beth's Poetry Trail: Belper Library (Larkin poem plaque)
  • The Larkin Trail
  
  
• TV & Radio Programmes
  • Love Again
  • Philip Larkin: Love and Death in Hull (Newsnight Review discussion)
  • Maeve Brennan interview on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, from July 2002