PhilipLarkinSociety
@PLSoc
Promotes awareness of Larkin’s work through live events, 'About Larkin' journal, website, YouTube, podcast, newsletters, Instagram & BlueSky. Become a member!
1st July is the beginning of our new membership year, 2025-26. Last year’s rates are unchanged. We’d be delighted to welcome you! philiplarkin.com/membership/
The Philip Larkin, powered by rage and ales, is something of a fever dream and probably what people expect of Coventry. If the poet Philip Larkin ever set foot in this establishment, he’d probably rewrite his entire canon. theboar.org/2025/07/pints-…
A 2015 press cutting on Larkin’s rejection of nomination for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry. ‘My idea of hell on earth…is a literary party, and I have an uneasy feeling that the post carries with it a lot of sherry-drill with important people.’
Another example of Larkin as reference point in America. lawliberty.org/why-cant-the-k…
“I have a theory that ‘holidays’ evolved from the medieval pilgrimage, and are essentially a kind of penance for being so happy and comfortable in one's daily life.” Philip Larkin
Hosting a book talk in an hour. But got to town a smidgin early — and the Philip Larkin Society kindly invited me to do a podcast on Larkin and Ireland — so I’ve meandered to the @TheLondonLib, to take home the entire Larkin shelf. Will read on the plane: the Larkin ascending.
Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand, As epitaph: He chucked up everything And just cleared off, And always the voice will sound Certain you approve This audacious, purifying, Elemental move… Philip Larkin
Gonna visit. Bring my Thornbury gang. Here's one of my favs. Wedding Wind by Philip Larkin - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry share.google/PJNsge9DwVO19S…
Larkin’s birthday event in Hull, 9th August. Graham Chesters on Larkin’s Postcode: HU5. eventbrite.com/e/larkins-post…
Settle down for a fireside chat about Larkin with Malcolm Gutie. youtu.be/Xx2tn8Z-bPM
Decorating The Butcher's Hook, Thornbury, with the last two lines of 'Party Politics.' @PLSoc "You may get drunk, or dry half-hours may pass. It seems to turn on where you are. Or who."
If you read each even-numbered line as a continuation of the previous line after a caesura, this #PhilipLarkin #poem starts coming close to Old English #alliterative verse.
Ought we to smile, Perhaps make friends? No: in the race for seats You’re best alone. Friendship is not worth while. Philip Larkin
We've been hosting @PLSoc AGM today. @Hull_Museums @hull_libr
Wonderful Larkin Day today @Hullhistorynews with a brilliant Larkin Trail, @PLSoc AGM & terrific play ‘Almost Instinct Almost True’ with Julia Munrow & Teddy Walker direct from London🙂📚🚶♂️🎭