Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life, Paperback - Sir Andrew Motion

Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man's frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft reader of poetry - has written an equally exemplar...

In this book Andrew Motion has made his own choice from his outstandingly fine and varied body of work.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Sir Andre...

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For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. ...

Award winning author Marion Molteno takes us on a magical journey of discovery into the life of a writer and her readers.Publisher: Troubador Publi...

In particular, it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother that shaped the writer we know so well: a number of poems ...

Reducere. The complete poems of the most admired British poet of his generationThis entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In add...

Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistan...

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Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kal...

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Philip Larkin's second collection, "The Less Deceived" was published by The Marvell Press in 1955, and now appears for the first time in Faber cove...

Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to su...

Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to su...

Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf.

The North Ship, Philip Larkin's earliest volume of verse, was first published in August 1945 and reissued in 1966 by Faber.

Philip Larkin's Required Writing, a selection from his miscellaneous prose from 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. T...

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This Faber Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Alan Johnson MP. 'Larkin, with his (in the best sense) provincial eye, and his unparallel...

Renowned critic, bestselling author and award-winning poet Clive James offers an exploration and celebration of one of his favourite writers, Phili...

Renowned critic, bestselling author and award-winning poet Clive James offers an exploration and celebration of one of his favourite writers, Phili...

This book explores Larkin's engagement with popular culture both as a threat to poetic authority and as a necessary form of cultural capital. It re...

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The story of Philip Larkin's long-term partner Monica Jones based on her never-before-seen letters to the poet.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor...

The Sentences That Create Us provides a road map for incarcerated people and their allies to have a thriving writing life behind bars-and shared be...

Born of illustrious New England stock, Rachel Field was a National Book Award-winning novelist, a Newbery Medal-winning children's writer, a poet, ...

This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings t...

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Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Dean KarnazesNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 136 x 203 x 19Cover type: PaperbackRedescoper...

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