but the profound clarity of his poems showed me a… Larkin argues that those who don’t fear death are deluding themselves, but as I age I realise that he misses… He had a gift for wisecracks, but the ...

Across ten programmes and ten Philip Larkin poems, Simon Armitage, the poet laureate, finds out what happens when he revisits and unpicks Larkin's work in his centenary year. Show more Across ten ...

The man being referred to is likely Philip Larkin, a real poet who it's implied the Doctor has met in person at some point. The quote, "What survives of us is love," is a fitting encapsulation of ...

This story appears in the April 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. If I were called in / To construct a religion / I should make use of water, wrote the English poet Philip Larkin in 1954 ...

The critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe transfer Almost Instinct, Almost True is the poignant darkly comic story of poet Philip Larkin’s neglected lover Monica, and her adoring student Tommy.

Etching; from England [We do not have the copyright the reproduce the Larkin poem Annus Mirabilis] So, famously, wrote the poet Philip Larkin, master of the regretful lyric, pinpointing what were ...

Griff Rhys Jones:Philip Larkin thought that the principle aim or intention of a poem should be to encapsulate, to evoke in fact, a very unique and specific emotional feeling and that without it ...

It takes a special level of disgruntlement with your parents to start quoting Philip Larkin’s This Be The Verse to strangers. That poem that begins, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad,” and ends with ...