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 ...

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 ...

Apr. 27—The sixth Annual James Larkin Pearson Poetry Competition at Whippoorwill Academy and Village in Ferguson helped celebrate National Poetry Month. The contest is held annually for middle and ...

THE WHITSUN WEDDINGS by Philip Larkin. 46 pages. Random House. $4. Eliot lies in ashes. Auden flogs his muse infrequently in exile. England, for so many centuries “a nest of singing birds,” finds ...

When John Betjeman was charged with helping find a proper recipient for the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1977, he contacted Philip Larkin and suggested Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001), who had ...

The sixth Annual James Larkin Pearson Poetry Competition will take place Saturday at the Whippoorwill Academy and Village. The event will begin at 11 a.m. at the village, located at 11928 N.C. 268 ...

Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless. Whatever the reason, I was a fan of Larkin’s work from a young age, and continue to be, to this day. Since I first memorized “The Trees,” not a spring has ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Philip Larkin is to be honoured with a memorial stone in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, to be laid alongside those of some of the most revered names in English language poetry ...