The Philip Larkin Society

Publisher:
Faber and Faber; New Ed edition (17 April 1975)
ISBN-10:
0571105033
ISBN-13:
978-0571105038

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Publisher:
Faber and Faber; New Ed edition (3 Mar 2005)
ISBN-10:
0571225829
ISBN-13:
978-0571225828
Synopsis:
An account of a young English undergraduate from the provinces, this portrait of Oxford during the war is now regarded by many critics as a classic of its kind.

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Publisher:
Faber and Faber (3 Mar 2005)
ISBN-10:
0571225810
ISBN-13:
978-0571225811
Synopsis:
This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and holidays.

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Publisher:
Marvell Press; New Ed edition (Mar 1974)
ISBN-10:
0900533064
ISBN-13:
978-0900533068

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Publisher:
Faber and Faber; New Ed edition (8 May 2001)
ISBN-10:
0571097103
ISBN-13:
978-0571097104
Synopsis:
A collection of poems from a "tenderly observant" poet who writes about what all of us can understand. The title poem describes the poet's journey by train from Hull to London, using the tones and rhythms of ordinary speech and focusing on the urban landscape of the industrial north.

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Publisher:
Faber and Faber; 2Rev Ed edition (10 Jun 1985)
ISBN-10:
0571134769
ISBN-13:
978-0571134762

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Publisher:
Oxford University Press (31 Mar 1973)
ISBN-10:
0198121377
ISBN-13:
978-0198121374
Synopsis:
Philip Larkin's Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse provoked controversy and dispute on first publication in 1973. Warmly welcomed by fellow poets John Betjeman and W.H. Auden, it was also considered a quirky and idiosyncratic collection by some critics. Today it is recognized as a fine and wide-ranging selection of modern verse, valuable not least because it reflects the tastes of one of the best, and best-loved, English poets of the twentieth century. As the successor to W.B. Yeats's Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935, this anthology made a radical re-assessment of the century's achievement in poetry; it represented verse that was 'lighter in tone, more understated, more casual, more conversational, more colloquial, in a way more democratic and more domestic than it was for Yeats'. It also introduced many little-known poets whose names have not entered the canon, and whose contributions add colour and depth to the anthology. As Philip Larkin writes in his Preface, in choosing poems rather than individuals he has brought together 'poems that will give pleasure to their readers both separately and as a collection'. For this latest reissue, the poet's biographer Andrew Motion has written a new Foreword in which he considers the nature of Larkin as editor.

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Publisher:
Faber and Faber (1 Dec 1999)
ISBN-10:
0571202756
ISBN-13:
978-0571202751
Synopsis:
Poems providing a range of urban and suburban provincial landscapes, social commentary with a satirical edge, and stoic wit.

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Publisher:
Faber and Faber; New Ed edition (17 Feb 2003)
ISBN-10:
0571216544
ISBN-13:
978-0571216543
Synopsis:
This edition of Larkin's poems presents his four published books "The North Ship", "The Less Deceived", "The Whitsun Weddings" and "High Windows" in their original sequence. The text also includes an appendix of poems that Larkin published in other places, from his juvenilia to his final years. Preserving everything that he published in his lifetime, this collection of poems returns readers to the book Larkin might have intended if he had lived.

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Publisher:
Faber and Faber; New Ed edition (25 Oct 1993)
ISBN-10:
057117048X
ISBN-13:
978-0571170487
Synopsis:
These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kingsley Amis and John Betjeman, or those less prominently placed, Larkin shows himself to be a frank and generous letter-writer. Confessions, jokes, advice, scurrilities, pronouncements on literature and jazz, impromptu verses, published here for the first time, gossip and wisdom abound in these pages. They offer a view of a poet's progress from brash youth to rueful age, and in complementing the poems, provide a biographical document for the serious reader.

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Publisher:
Faber and Faber (1 Nov 2001)
ISBN-10:
0571209459
ISBN-13:
978-0571209453
Synopsis:
Larkin's Required Writing, his selection from his miscellaneous prose 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. It was the last book to be published by him during his lifetime and won the W. H. Smith Award. It was also chosen by many critics and reviewers as one of their books of the year. Larkin died in December 1985. Further Requirements gathers together many other interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews. Some of them date from the period after he had chosen the contents of Required Writing; others come from obscure publications, including some early pieces. Taken all together this collection of fugitive or reprinted material fills in a consistent but sometimes unexpected portrait of Philip Larkin - mordant, intolerant, generous, but always himself. It will give great pleasure to all admirers of his work. Required Writing was dedicated to Anthony Thwaite, one of Larkin's chosen literary executors, who has edited and introduced this new selection. He edited the birthday tribute Larkin at Sixty in 1982 and, after Larkin's death, both the Collected Poems and the Selected Letters. His own Selected Poems appeared in 1997.

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Publisher:
Faber and Faber (1 Nov 2001)
ISBN-10:
0571216110
ISBN-13:
978-0571216116
Synopsis:
Philip Larkin's two published novels, "Jill" and "A Girl in Winter" tell only part of the story of his thwarted ambition as a novelist. Drawing on the papers deposited after his death in the Brynmore Jones Library, Hull, this volume collects together virtually all his remaining unpublished fiction.

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