Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Philip Larkin may accuse his mum and dad in verse of 'f***ing him up', but new letters reveal he shared a close bond with his parents
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
By Stephen Adams, Arts CorrespondentPublished: 1:47PM GMT 22 Nov 2009 Philip Larkin Photo: GETTY "They **** you up, your mum and dad," wrote Philip Larkin. "They may not mean to, but they do." He went on to say that children simply inherited their parents' faults and told his readers that they should actually avoid having children. But unpublished letters from Larkin...
icWales (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
MOST of us know Philip Larkin’s poem This Be The Verse for its first line: “They f*** you up, your mum and dad.”
Heretical Sex (Free subscription) | yesterday
... merit. The publisher won, and the novel became available in the UK for the first time. The poet Philip Larkin later wrote in a particularly witty moment: Sex was invented in 1963, Between the Lady Chatterley trial And the Beatles’ first LP. One unexpected outcome of the Lady Chatterley trial was that people often try to make a distinction between ‘erotica’ and ‘pornography’....
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
wrote Philip Larkin. "They may not mean to, but they do." He went on to say that children simply inherited their parents' faults and told his readers that they should actually avoid having children. But unpublished letters from Larkin to his parents Sydney and Eva show that he enjoyed a closer relationship with them than he portrayed in poems such as This Be The Verse....
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... Philip Larkin's love for mother and father shown in letters .
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
News Article Tape: ( ragline )___ Telegraph: Philip Larkin's love for mother and father shown in letters ___( ragline )___ The Guardian: Friedrich von Schiller: the Romantic lover ___( ragline )___ Telegraph: T.S. Eliot does not correspond with his letters ___( ragline )___ The Kansas City Star: Kelly Cherry's "Girl in a Library" and "The Retreats of Thought" ___(...
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... just so many excellent poems to be found. We begin, though, in News at Eleven, to find out what Philip Larkin really thought of his mum and dad. Also this week, we congratulate the poets who wrote the winning poems for November's InterBoard Poetry Community . Alice Folkart's poem Certain in my Immortality - 1947 won the whole shebang for Blueline Poetry Forum . Jessica Haynes' poem...
A Writer's Life by John Siddique (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
John Siddique is an ideal poet for twenty-first century Britain, he is one of the finest post-racial writers. His writing is direct and human, reflecting the world and people of today. His work follows the tradition of Philip Larkin and ee cummings, yet his voice is uniquely his own. His passion for sharing literature sees him drawing on the whole tradition of poetry and often creating...
