May 2012 Nomination: At Grass [3 January 1950. From The Less Deceived (1955)] This poem reminds me forcibly of Philip’s strong attachment to the RSPCA and his utter loathing of cruelty to animals, reflected in his writing and his will and final legacy. Barry
October 2002 Nomination: At Grass [3 January 1950. From XX Poems and The Less Deceived] ‘At Grass’ (1950) has been used (for example by Alvarez) to exemplify poetic timidity or even sentimentality, but the third stanza is an imaginative triumph. Larkin evokes the race-meeting from
