LARKIN LINKS
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Academic
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Biographical
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Commentaries on Larkin Poems
- Arrival
By poet David Wheldon. - ‘Ambulances’, ‘The Explosion’ and ‘Wedding Wind’
at leavingcertsolutions.com. - ‘Aubade’
A N Wilson reflects in the Daily Telegraph on the poem that Maeve Brennan could not bear to read complete, and compares it with Horace and Keats. Interesting – but in the end the critic blinks first..
- Arrival
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Essays
- Eros, Thanatos and the negation of the will-to-live in Larkin’s poetry
by Spiros Doikas at www.translatum.gr. - High Windows and Four-Letter Words
A note on Philip Larkin by Stephen Burt. Boston Review. - Larkin’s Predicament
by Marcus Herold at the University of Cologne English Department. - Sacramentalism in the Poetry of Philip Larkin
by Don King. - “Wanking at ten past three”: Larkin’s posthumous love poetry
by Hans Osterwalder (Université de Zurich) .
- Eros, Thanatos and the negation of the will-to-live in Larkin’s poetry
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Global Larkin
- www.translatum.gr
Greek language translations by Spiros Doikas of some Larkin poems.
- www.translatum.gr
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Interviews
- Paris Review
‘The Art of Poetry’: No. 30 – Philip Larkin.
- Paris Review
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Larkin Web Sites
- all night north
– The website of the project to produce a CD of new musical settings of Larkin’s poetry by some of the best songwriters in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. - www.soundcloud/philiplarkin
– with audio of Larkin reading from the 1959 LP recording of The Less Deceived. - The Four Aways
– Experience and Expectation in the Poetry of Philip Larkin. Another site dedicated to Larkin. - larkin25.co.uk
Official website for the Larkin 25 commemoration activities.
- all night north
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Obituaries
- A tribute to the late poet Philip Larkin
by Craig Raine, at The Guardian. - Maeve Brennan Obituary
by Jean Hartley. (The Guardian – June 19, 2003) - Monica Jones Obituary
by John Sutherland. (The Guardian – March 15, 2001) - Jean Hartley Obituary
by Anthony Thwaite. (The Guardian – July 21, 2011) - Ruth Siverns Obituary
by James Booth. (The Guardian – January 23, 2013) - Patrick Garland Obituary
by Michael Coveney. (The Guardian – April 22, 2013) - Winifred Dawson Obituary
by Ann Thwaite. (The Guardian – August 28, 2014)
- A tribute to the late poet Philip Larkin
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Press Articles
- Poetic reflections on a Belfast Twelfth
Fionnuala O’Connor brings Larkin’s perspective to bear on the Belfast marching season . (The Irish News – July 16, 2015) - Dead poet’s Society
Alan Plater discusses the appeal of Larkin to playrights. (The Guardian – November 27, 2003) - How the young Philip Larkin courted Trouble at Willow Gables
Emma Hartley and Vanessa Thorpe. (The Observer – April 22, 2001) - Larkin’s lesbians
by Rachel Cooke. (The Guardian – April 24, 2001) - Life limited by love – Larkin with Women
by Michael Billington. A review of the Ben Brown play Larkin with Women. (The Guardian – November 13, 1999) - Revealed: Larkin the Tender Lover
by John Ezard. (The Guardian – October 15, 1999) - Twice Collected: the well-cared-for Poems of Philip Larkin
by John Updike, reviewing the 2004 US Edition of Larkin’s Collected Poems. (The New Yorker – July 26, 2004) - Homage to Philip Larkin
by John Banville, (The New York Review of Books – Volume 53, Number 3. February 23, 2006)
- Poetic reflections on a Belfast Twelfth
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Societies
- Alliance of Literary Societies
- ALSo e journal 2015
- The Thomas Hardy Society
- Downloadable review (Doc. file) of the joint Hardy Society/Larkin Society event in Hull (October 2012)
- The Hopkins Society
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Student Resources
- Larkin: A Helpfile
at Roger Dover at Wrexham – North East Wales Institute of Higher Eductaion - Philip Larkin’s Poetics
by Ellen Moore at Virginia Commonwealth University.
- Larkin: A Helpfile
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Trails and Visitor attractions
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TV & Radio Programmes