New Yorker writers and contributors on the books keeping them company this winter. The New Yorker’s editors and critics ...

One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday Did my three-quarters-empty train pull out, All windows down, all cushions hot, all sense ...

Revelations about Philip Larkin's private life have made him a divisive figure To some, Larkin was Britain's greatest 20th Century poet. But revelations about his unsavoury views towards race and ...

Please contact Liverpool University Press for availability about this product Philip Larkin is one of the finest English poets of our time. His poetic personality – nostalgic, wry, melancholy, ironic, ...

Kevin Barry is one of the contemporary Irish writers whose work I love and admire most. For his Shelf Analysis, he started ...

Names such as WH Auden, Philip Larkin and Robert Graves were passed over as being unsuitable. The job dates back to the 17th Century, and has been filled by some of the most celebrated poets in ...

Philip Larkin’s work has a timeless way of capturing Hull’s soul. His words resonate with anyone who’s spent time here. A ...

Across ten programmes and ten Philip Larkin poems, Simon Armitage, the poet laureate, finds out what happens when he revisits and unpicks Larkin's work in his centenary year. Show more Across ten ...

Could the clarity of his poems have emerged from… I was a panicky teenager with a chaotic home life, but the profound clarity of his poems showed me a… Larkin argues that those who don’t fear death ...