A residential study weekend organised by the Thomas Hardy and Philip Larkin Societies at Kingston Maurward College, Stinsford, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 8PY Programme Friday 9th August (97th anniversary of Larkin’s birth) 7.00 pm Welcome Drinks and Dinner 8.00 pm Lecture by Philip Pullen ‘Philip [...]
The Philip Larkin Society is very pleased to be supporting the first Larkin conference to be held in Hull for 12 years. The two-day conference, which will take place at Hull History Centre on 13th-14th June, has been organised by Rebecca Devine and Kyra Piperides Jaques who are both PhD [...]
The latest edition of the Society’s journal, About Larkin, has just been published. As usual it contains a wealth of valuable material relating to Larkin, including new research findings, reviews, poetry and personal recollections. The journal is free to members. For content [...]
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 It includes the previously unpublished correspondence which Philip Larkin wrote to Mary Wrench (later Judd), a member of the library staff at the University of [...]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 [...]
