Hugely entertaining correspondence from one of Britain’s most popular poets.
Book review: ‘Selected Letters of Philip Larkin’ (Anthony Thwaite, ed.)
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Book review: ‘Poetry Notebook’ by Clive James
Sorting the poetic wheat from chaff.
On misunderstanding Larkin
It wasn't until many years after encountering a favourite passage of Larkin's poetry that I realised I had fundamentally misunderstood his view of photography.