The Philip Larkin Society is delighted to announce the appointment of its latest Honorary Vice President. Professor John Haffenden is a distinguished scholar and writer and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. Initially appointed in 1975, he was made reader in 1988 and promoted to a personal chair in 1994. Since 2009 he has been general editor of the letters of T.S. Eliot. 

A great admirer of the work of Philip Larkin, Larkin enthusiasts will be familiar with his famous interview of Philip Larkin conducted in 1981 and published in  Thwaite (ed) Philip Larkin: Further Requirements, in 2001 .