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“New Year Poem” by Philip Larkin

By On December 31, 2019

"A poetry from which even people who distrust poetry, most people, can take comfort and delight." - X.J. Kennedy … Read More

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“Dockery and Son” by Philip Larkin

By On August 9, 2015

"Larkin wrote in clipped, lucid stanzas, about the failures and remorse of age, about stunted lives and spoiled desires." -- J.D. McClatchy… Read More

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Larkin on the Walk of Stars: A Dispatch from Coventry

By On July 1, 2013

British E-Verser Dr. Dan visited Coventry this past weekend and sends in a picture of poet Philip Larkin's star on the walk of fame there.… Read More

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“He Was Absolutely Insistent There Was No God, No Future Life, No Hope for the Planet”: Powerful and Utterly Depressing Short Documentary about Philip Larkin

By On June 21, 2013

With telling interviews with A.N. Wilson, Martin Amis, and others who knew Larkin. … Read More