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 [...]
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 [...]
