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. Starting outside The Beverley Arms, a favourite haunt of Larkin throughout the 30 years he lived in [...]
Heritage Open Days begin this week across the country and as befits its first year as UK City of Culture, Hull’s contribution is bigger and better than ever. This event, run nationally by English Heritage and coordinated locally by Hull Civic Society, runs between Tuesday 5th – Sunday [...]
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 shop. Bags can also be purchased at the New Eyes Each Year Exhibition in the Brynmor Jones Library, [...]
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 evening of poetry and jazz in the Brynmor Jones Library. Prior to the event, visitors had [...]
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 Fountain appeal. The group read a selection of appropriate Larkin poems in some of the gardens along [...]
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 of his life and work. Middle class audiences, he noted, ‘do like a reference’, and there [...]
The opening of the wonderful new Larkin Exhibition in the Brynmor Jones Library (of which we’re very proud), combined with Grayson Perry’s visit to Hull as our Distinguished Guest Lecturer, is stimulating a huge amount of interest in ‘all things Larkin.’ As a result, [...]
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 press and public alike . The exhibition, curated by Anna Farthing and designed by Craig Oldham, offers [...]
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, welcomed us with the merchandise stall and the joyous sounds of Larkin’s Jazz in the lobby and [...]
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, which are reproduced as facsimiles by kind permission of his niece, Rosemary Parry. A fascinating [...]
