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Special offer! Join the Larkin Society between now and the end of June and receive the two 2025-26 issues of our fabulous journal and your membership will last until July 2027! philiplarkin.com/membership/
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RT @wild_julian: Memorable day in London @PLSoc AGM at the historic Jerusalem Chamber of Westminster Abbey dating back to 1300s (where Henr…
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Wendy Cope, at her most Larkinesque
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May 22
That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till about
Eight-twenty on the sunlit Saturday
Did my rammed @Hull_Trains footex pull out,
All windows down, all cushions hot, all sense
Of being in a hurry gone. We ran
Under Anlaby Rd flyover past the @mkmbs stadium, crossed a street
A big day tomorrow,
This from 10 years ago, even Larkin is a fan!
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Pearson Park #hull earlier.
First time down there for three weeks.
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May 18
I wonder whose idea it was to put these rather elegantly carved lines from Larkin on the wall at King’s Cross railway station? Well, I’m glad they did.
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May 13
Published in a strictly limited edition of 150 copies, this 15,000-word essay is the first extended analysis of Philip Larkin’s poetic debts to cinema. Beautifully written and illustrated by one of the Society’s three founding members. Available at legalhighspress.com/shop/p/r…
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May 11
Closed like confessionals, they thread
Loud noons of cities, giving back
None of the glances they absorb.
Light glossy grey, arms on a plaque,
They come to rest at any kerb:
All streets in time are visited…
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May 13
Brighton Phil have just announced their 2026-27 programme including ‘Jonny Greenwood's Water which was inspired by the Philip Larkin poem of that name and features strings, flutes and Indian tanpura’.
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A Carol Rumens poem published in About Larkin 44 that reflects on the role of poets in a time of conflict.
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Sad news of the death of poet Carol Rumens who taught at the University of Hull and was very much influenced by Larkin's work. theguardian.com/books/2026/m…
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RT @wild_julian: The lovely beech tree in our garden now in leaf, though looking a little sad. May need rain. Perfect time for
Philip Larki…
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OTD Monica Jones was born in 1922. In 1977 on her birthday Larkin gave her a copy of Thorburn’s Mammals (with introduction by David Attenborough born OTD 1 in 1926). And he inserted a poem especially written for her. Larkin left half of his estate to the RSPCA.
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Philip Larkin: Masterspy comes to the Chorlton Arts Festival for one night only! Saturday, 9th May. Check details at hat-hair-productions.blogspo…
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Apr 30
“I can live a week without poetry, but not a day without jazz.”
Philip Larkin
Happy International Jazz Day
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Apr 26
Larkin’s father died on 26 March 1948. A week the following Sunday it snowed in Warwick. This beautiful elegy was never printed in the poet’s lifetime and yet, arguably, it is his first great poem.
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Apr 25
On Philip Larkin. One person’s engagement with Larkin over time. Do we all have versions of this story? poetrysociety.org.uk/on-phil…
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Apr 24
Larkin's starkly honest poem Sad Steps, with its allusion to Sir Philip Sidney's 16th century sonnet sequence 'Astrophil and Stella', was completed on this day in 1968 and later collected in High Windows (1974).
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Have a look at our YouTube channel on the PLS website (youtube.com/@thephiliplarkin…). We’ve just uploaded some wonderful videos of talks from the recent Larkin Conference.
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