Official account for the Philip Larkin Society at PhilipLarkin.com, promoting the work of Philip Larkin.
Philip Larkin Society
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Wonderful pictures- thank you for coming along.
It was very pleasant @plsoc.bsky.social
Traveling to London for the AGM this morning and the chance to see Larkin's memorial stone which was placed in Westminster Abbey in 2016.
We will see you there!
Larkin’s draft of ‘Song: The Three Ships’ is included in this lovely book published by the British Library. His first poetry workbook is deposited in the BL, the rest are in Hull History Centre.
After a successful and enjoyable AGM at Westminster Abbey. PLS members had the opportunity to visit Poets’ Corner
In 1962, Larkin accompanied Jean Hartley to see Louis Armstrong at Bridlington Royal Spa.Writing to his mother Eva, Larkin said, “this was a very great thrill for me, as Armstrong is the Shakespeare of jazz even now, & I’ve never seen him before.'
Today would have been Barbara Pym's birthday (b.1913). Larkin wrote to Pym on 17 June 1978 praising her late novel The Sweet Dove Died, which he says he read '...with avid interest...consumed with eagerness to know what happens next...and in the end. And of course I shall read it again.'
‘Sometimes I think I’m preparing for a huge splenetic autobiography, denigrating everyone I’ve ever known: it would have to be left to the nation in large brass-bound boxes, to be printed when all of us are dead.’ PL to Judy Egerton, March 1958
We are very pleased to have @deanwilson.bsky.social new poetry collection in our hands, with a badge and a bookmark too! Officially endorsed by our Chair Graham Chesters.
