First of all, thank you to all who bought the Larkin Christmas cards- they sold like hot cakes (to use a cliché) – it was fantastic to see them flying off to our supporters and PLS members [...]

Born and Bred: Larkin Reflections – Four Hull Poets respond to Philip Larkin (John Robinson, Joe Hakim, Vicky Foster, Dean Wilson) Middleton Hall, 25 October 2017 This event in the Hull City of [...]

‘New Eyes Each Year’ finally came to the end of its highly successful run on Sunday 1st October. During the course of 13 weeks a total of 11,890 people visited the exhibition and the [...]

As part of the highly popular East Yorkshire’s  Walking and Outdoors Festival, Philip Pullen, the Society’s media and publicity officer, led the first ever Larkin walk around Beverley. [...]

Hot off the press, we now have available this fabulous Philip Larkin Society tote bag, suitably ascribed, and priced at £6 including postage and packing. They can be purchased via our online [...]

On Wednesday 9th August, in celebration of what would have been Philip Larkin’s 95th birthday, the University of Hull and the Philip Larkin Society welcomed around 50 guests  to an informal [...]

On a beautiful sunlit Sunday afternoon, committee members of the Philip Larkin Society took part in a poetry reading event in the Avenues area of Hull to help raise funds for the Victoria Avenue [...]

Blending profound meditation with stand up comedy and dressed in a pink creation designed by himself Grayson Perry held a packed Middleton Hall enthralled with his witty, highly personal account [...]

The major biographic exhibition ‘Larkin: New Eyes Each Year’  at the University of Hull’s Brynmor Jones Library  is now open and is already generating an enormous amount of interest from [...]

As ever, it was a beautiful sunny day at the Lawns as over 30 members gathered for the Philip Larkin Society Annual General Meeting. New merchandise officers, Lyn Lockwood and Rachael Galletly, [...]

The latest issue of About Larkin, the Society’s journal, has now been published. It contains a wealth of new, previously unseen material relating to Larkin, including early family letters, [...]

Professor Graham Chesters was a university colleague of Larkin’s and is Vice Chairman of the Philip Larkin Society. Larkin is linked in the national consciousness with the city of Hull, [...]

We are pleased to announce that, following the recent AGM, membership fees for 2016-17 are unchanged. Click below to download the relevant form. 2016 Application 2016 Renewal    

The current 40-page issue of About Larkin shows a photograph of a smiling Eva Larkin taken by Philip in 1970. It includes facsimiles of communications between Philip and Eva featuring his [...]

  On Sunday April 3rd a group of 36 students and their teachers from Queensland Academy, Brisbane, visited Hull for a Larkin Study Day, hosted by the University and the Philip Larkin [...]

  Larkin, Hull & 2017: a talk by Rosie Millard. This event, which marked the 30th anniversary of Larkin’s death, took place at the University of Hull in the Brynmor Jones Library’s new [...]

On Sunday 11th November, the BBC screened ‘Return To Larkinland’  in which AN Wilson retraced the life and work of Philip Larkin. The programme formed part of the celebrations for [...]

You are invited to the LAUNCH PARTY for   at 6pm, Wednesday 7th October 2015 with readings, toads, prints, drinks, nibbles and assorted pondlife. Bring your friends and family along to [...]

From Wednesday 5th to Sunday 9th of August the City of Hull will be at the centre of a massive celebration of Larkin and toad-related activity. It is five years since the famous, and highly [...]