On Saturday 1st December 2018 the distinguished poet and writer, Blake Morrison, will be giving a talk entitled ‘The Deep Blue Air: Larkin and the Idea of Freedom’, at The Royal Hotel, Ferensway, Hull commencing at 2.00 PM. This event is open to non-members. Tickets cost £10 per [...]
The Hull launch of Letters Home 1936-1977, James Booth’s edited edition of the Larkin family letters, will take place in The Observatory, Brynmor Jones Library, The University of Hull, at 6.30 pm on Monday 19th November 2018. James will be ‘in conversation’ with Anthony and [...]
The latest issue of About Larkin, the Society’s journal, has now been published. Members of the Society receive two issues of the journal each year as part of their membership. Non-members can purchase a copy at a price of £8.00 per issue for the current year’s publications or £3.00 [...]
The April 2018 edition of ‘About Larkin’ has now been published and constitutes a bumper edition of Lrkin-related items. It includes the previously unpublished correspondence which Philip Larkin wrote to Mary Wrench (later Judd), a member of the library staff at the University of [...]
The Philip Larkin Society is pleased to announce that it has sponsored a new pew in Hull Minster in support of the Church’s £4.5 m regeneration project involving a major restoration and remodeling of the interior of the building. Holy Trinity Church in the centre of Hull, was [...]
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 all around the world and popping up on tweets all through December. We are planning to produce two [...]
We are delighted that Coventry, the birthplace of Philip Larkin, is to be the next UK City of Culture commencing in 2021. It is fitting, too, that the City should be taking on the mantle from Hull, the place where Larkin spent most of his adult life and which shares many historical and cultural [...]
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 Culture programme, introduced by Martin Goodman, Professor of Creative Writing in the University, [...]
‘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 responses they left behind were overwhelmingly positive. Brilliantly curated by Anna Farthing, 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. Starting outside The Beverley Arms, a favourite haunt of Larkin throughout the 30 years he lived in [...]
