The Questors presents Larkin with Women by Ben Brown Intriguing insight into poet’s life The year is 1956 and Philip Larkin, one of England’s most famous post-war poets, has just arrived in Hull to take up the post of University Librarian. Over the next thirty years, his life will be [...]
Excitement is mounting ahead of the opening of the major biographic exhibition ‘Larkin: New Eyes Each Year’ at the University of Hull on 5th July. The exhibition, curated by Anna Farthing and designed by Craig Oldham, will offer new insights into Larkin’s life drawing on some never before seen [...]
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 [...]
Please note that the priority booking period for Philip Larkin Society members has now ended. Any remaining tickets will only be available from Hull Box Office https://www.hullboxoffice.com
The Philip Larkin Society is delighted to announce that Grayson Perry CBE RA is to be its Distinguished Guest Lecturer for 2017. The event will take place at the Middleton Hall, University of Hull on Wednesday 5th July. Grayson Perry is a particular Larkin fan and Larkin’s face features in [...]
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, which he called ‘the town that lets you write,’ although after his appointment as the [...]
On 2 October 1974 Larkin sent his mother a colour postcard of Prince Charles, saluting in military uniform : ‘I am in the train going down to London where I shall see Betjeman and go to Westminster Abbey to see him unveil a tablet to Auden.’ On the following day he sent a follow-up [...]
In celebration of Philip Larkin’s memorialisation in Poets’ Corner, the Friends of the Bodleian are to hold a reading of Philip Larkin and Barbara Pym’s letters on Saturday, 10 December at 6pm in the Weston Library (part of the Bodleian Libraries) in Oxford. Further details are [...]
St James the Less, Pimlico: 21 September 2016, 6.00 for 6.30 – 8.00 pm Schoolgirls, Seaside, Churches and Death: Betjeman and Larkin James Booth The poems of Betjeman and Larkin present striking similarities, but also strong contrasts. Larkin frequently cited Betjeman in his campaign of [...]
