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  • Philip Larkin Poems

    Selected by Martin Amis

    by Philip Larkin ...
    For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis.'Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, "laugh out loud" (as if there's another way of doing it)? Who else uses an essentially conversational idiom to achieve such a variety of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Jill

    by Philip Larkin ...
    A young man from Northern England struggles to find a sense of belonging at Oxford University during WWII in this "brilliant" novel by a literary icon ( The Times).John, who's never traveled far from his northern town of Huddleston, finds himself an undergraduate at Oxford University in 1940. A shy, insecure working-class young man, he is awed by his confident, careless roommate and yearns to fit ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collected Poems

    by Philip Larkin ...
    Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to Larkin's own deliberate ordering of his poems, presenting, in their original sequence, his four published books: The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. It also includes an appendix of poems that Larkin published in other ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Girl in Winter

    by Philip Larkin ...
    Lose yourself in this tale of young love by the 'best-loved English poet of the past 100 years.' ( Sunday Times)Katherine Lind is a refugee who has become a librarian in a wartime Northern town. One winter's day, she receives a telegram: and her thoughts drift back to falling in love with her pen-pal, Robin Fennel, on a glorious summer exchange. But on his return from the army, their reunion is ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin

    by Philip Larkin ...
    This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in Collected Poems (1988), and in the Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental) tucked away in his letters. The manuscript and printed sources have been ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Whitsun Weddings

    by Philip Larkin ...
    Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader. The late John Betjeman observed that 'this tenderly observant poet writes clearly, rhythmically, and thoughtfully about what all of us can understand'. Behind this modest ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • High Windows

    by Philip Larkin ...
    When Philip Larkin's High Windows first appeared, Kingsley Amis spoke for a large and loyal readership when he wrote: 'Larkin's admirers need only be told that he is as good as ever here, if not slightly better.'Like Betjeman and Hardy, Larkin is a poet who can move a large audience - without betraying the highest artistic standards.The poems in High Windows illustrate Larkin's unrivalled ability ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Jill

    by Philip Larkin ...
    Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English. But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unreliable 'friend', and then falls in love for real, undergraduate life becomes its own strange, complex world .'The best-loved English poet of the past 100 years.' Sunday Times ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

    by Philip Larkin ...
    Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his correspondent, lover and closest confidante, in a relationship which lasted over forty years ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Less Deceived

    by Philip Larkin ...
    Philip Larkin's second collection, The Less Deceived was published by The Marvell Press in 1955, and now appears for the first time in Faber covers.The eye can hardly pick them outFrom the cold shade they shelter in,Till wind distresses tail and mane;Then one crops grass, and moves about- The other seeming to look on -And stands anonymous again.from 'At Grass' ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Philip Larkin: Letters Home

    by Philip Larkin ...
    Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a 'conservative anarchist' and admirer of Hitler, who died relatively early in Larkin's life; to his timid depressive mother Eva, who by contrast, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Required Writing

    Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982

    by Philip Larkin ...
    The appearance of Philip Larkin's second prose collection - reviews and critical assessments of writers and writing; pieces on jazz, mostly uncollected; some long, revealing and often highly entertaining interviews given on various occasions - was a considerable literary event. Stamped by wit, originality and intelligence, it was vintage Larkin throughout:'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD