PhilipLarkinSociety

Join the Larkin Society between 1st March and the end of June and receive the two 2025-26 issues of our fabulous journal and your membership will last until July 2027! philiplarkin.com/membership/ On International Woman’s Day, we salute the late Jean Hartley, a powerful Hull voice.

Absolutely not to be missed! A show to celebrate the late, great Maurice Rutherford - Larkin’s contemporary to within a couple of weeks. And author of poetry collection, Flip Side to Philip Larkin.

‘Always it is by bridges that we live’

A Life in Poetry: Cambridge, Larkin, and Writing a PhD Episode 12 with @Clarissa_Hard_ is now live! She discusses growing up in a home filled with words and music; falling in love with poetry; studying at the University of Cambridge; completing a PhD on Philip Larkin, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Hardy; teaching; journalism; and aspirations for the future. youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5hrV…

@poemtoday @amjuster Super-subs win matches. Just saying.

@amjuster Putting nationalism (🇨🇮 or 🇺🇸 or 🇬🇧) one side, the five most important poets writing in English in the 20th century. (imo) Two American: Frost and Stevens Two Irish: Yeats and Heaney And T. S. Eliot (You’ve come a long way from St. Louis…) Larkin, maybe as a super-sub.

Who are your five most important US #poets of the 20th century? (no longer lists, please) My list is #RobertFrost, #WallaceStevens, #SylviaPlath, #RichardWilbur & #GwendolynBrooks. I have disqualified #TSEliot & #WHAuden for excessive Britishness.

In 1975, Larkin gave an interview to a schoolboy from Beverley Grammar who asked if he’d been tempted to write a third novel after A Girl in Winter. ‘I spent about another five years trying to write the third, but I failed and had to fall back on poems.’ Career planning.

And I am sick for want of sleep; So sick, that I can half-believe The soundless river pouring from the cave Is neither strong nor deep; Only an image fancied in conceit… Philip Larkin

What Is My Favourite Statue In Hull? Actor Matt Sutton selects a popular figure of a controversial figure (with wonky glasses.) Supplementals: tinyurl.com/4hsvjenp @hull_libraries @PLSoc @TPExpressTrains

“What did Baudelaire say, man can live a week without bread but not a day without poetry. You might say I can live a week without poetry but not a day without jazz.” Philip Larkin

“I can live a week without poetry, but not a day without jazz.” Philip Larkin

How many poets can claim to have a pub named after them? hamhigh.co.uk/news/25787164.…

@MaxSmit88488277 @Poetria_cat @LaBreuEdicions 10” by 8”. Don’t know the brand. You might find it in the Hull History Centre catalogue.

@PLSoc @Poetria_cat @LaBreuEdicions Can you share the dimensions and brand of this notebook?

Un fragment del poema "Forget What Did" de Philip Larkin, inclòs al llibre Finestrals. L'edició és de @LaBreuEdicions, del 2009, i inclou la traducció al català de Marcel Riera. #poesia #poetry #englishpoetry #poetryinenglish @PLSoc #philiplarkin

Morning at last: there in the snow Your small blunt footprints come and go. Night has left no more to show, Not the candle, the half-drunk wine, Or touching joy; only this sign Of your life walking into mine… Philip Larkin

@lloyd_peasley @DurhamWASP If that were his sole intent, he probably wouldn’t have written such exquisite poetry.

@DurhamWASP @PLSoc Was Philip intent on living a life of quiet desperation?

So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: - Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago. Philip Larkin

Plenty to look forward to! The Philip Larkin Society Conference 2026 Tickets, Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 9:00 AM | Eventbrite eventbrite.com/e/the-philip-l…

T. S. Eliot died on this day in 1965. This photograph showing his empty desk was taken at the Faber office on Russell Square the day after Eliot's death. On the second photograph, Eliot is shown with Helen Gardner, literary critic, scholar, and Faber author.

The great chess player Amos Burn - the centenary of whose death we marked earlier this year with an exhibition - was born #OTD 1848 at 28 Bourne St #Hull. @Hull_Museums @hull_libraries

Anyone else noticed Simon Armitage's "Larkin Revisited" recently. This morning, High Windows popped up. Just now, To the Sea. Beeb R4 seems to be replaying. @PLSoc

So it is better to sleep and leave the bottle unopened; Tomorrow in the offices the year on the stamps will be altered; Tomorrow new diaries consulted, new calendars stand; With such small adjustments life will again move forward Implicating us all Philip Larkin

facebook.com/share/p/1AgFbY… A Facebook post on Aubade.