Philip Larkin is to be the latest addition to Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. The Oxford graduate, who spent 30 years working as a librarian at Hull University, will have a floor stone dedicated ...

A few years ago, for a birthday treat, I went to Hull. I wanted to walk The Larkin Trail, a tour of various workaday locations that held some significance to the poet Philip Larkin. It took me to the ...

In his valuable collection of essays and reviews, Required Writing, Philip Larkin wondered–in a piece about Sir John Betjeman–“Can it be that, as Eliot dominated the first half of the twentieth ...

The producers of a new BBC documentary about the poet Philip Larkin have found an unpublished poem in his notebook The producers of a new BBC documentary about the poet Philip Larkin have found an ...

As late as the 1970s, it was hard to find Philip Larkin's poetry in American bookstores. I remember searching all over Washington for his first collection, "The North Ship" (1945), before locating a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The centenary Tuesday of the birth of the late Philip Larkin invites some reflections on his gloom. “Death is no different whined at than withstood,” the poet wrote in “Aubade,” published in 1977 in ...

Smith College will present a reading by Joan Larkin, the college’s new Grace Hazard Conkling Poet in Residence, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 16, in Stoddard Hall Auditorium. The reading is free, open ...

Singer-songwriter Patty Larkin and poet Marie Howe discovered when they met that they had much in common, besides their love of words, admiration for each other’s work and daughters close in age. “We ...