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Philip Larkin: The Man and his Work by Dale Salwak 9781349097029
Booksplease Price: £36.45A collection of essays celebrating the talents of Philip Larkin, poet, critic and fiction writer who died in 1985. They range from Kingsley Amis' and Anthony Curtis' fine memoirs of Larkin's life at... -
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571375301
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years.Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes us from scenes... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.'This is the... -
Philip Larkin and his Contemporaries: An Air of Authenticity by Philip Hobsbaum 9781349193318
Booksplease Price: £46.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349193318Author Philip HobsbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint -
Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin by Richard Hudson Palmer 9781847140258
Booksplease Price: £37.81"Jazz Writings" made Larkin's jazz criticism widely available - Palmer now offers the first extensive revaluation of Larkin's writing on jazz as well as covering his poetry and early work."Such... -
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 by Philip Larkin 9780571131204
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The 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... -
Philip Larkin: Art and Self: Five Studies by M. Rowe 9780230251717
Booksplease Price: £46.74Exploring the complex relationship between aesthetic experience and personal identity in Larkin's work, this book gives close and original readings of three major poems ('Here', 'Livings' and... -
A Study Guide for Philip Larkin's Aubade by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375376624
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375376624Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 40I -
Philip Larkin: Art and Self: Five Studies by M. Rowe 9781349321452
Booksplease Price: £46.28Exploring the complex relationship between aesthetic experience and personal identity in Larkin's work, this book gives close and original readings of three major poems ('Here', 'Livings' and... -
A Study Guide for Philip Larkin's Toads by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375395076
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375395076Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 32I -
Gravity Archives Sir Andrew Motion 9780571395972
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From the former Poet Laureate, a remarkable contemplation of departure and return.Andrew Motion's new collection gives a moving account of the friction and interplay between past and present. In the... -
A Study Guide for Philip Larkin's Arundel Tomb by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375376525
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375376525Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 38I -
All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961 - 1971 by Philip Larkin 9780571134762
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961 - 1971 gathers Philip Larkin's elegant, witty and penetrating reviews and responses to... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James 9781529028850
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.'This is the... -
Philip Larkin, Popular Culture, and the English Individual by J Ryan Hibbett 9781498543040
Booksplease Price: £37.42Despite the denigrating revelations of his published letters, Philip Larkin looms larger than ever, both as an English national icon and as a championed voice of postwar English poetry. Philip... -
The Poetry of Philip Larkin: A Study In Long Perspectives by S N Prasad 9781638677987
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £14.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638677987Author S N PrasadFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint -
A Study Guide for Philip Larkin's High Windows by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375381239
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375381239Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 34I -
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions.In this personal anthology,... -
Larkin’s Travelling Spirit: The Place, Space and Journeys of Philip Larkin by Alex Howard 9783030534714
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.28This book examines Larkin’s evocation of place and space, along with the opportunities for self-discovery offered by the act and thought of travel. From his canonical verse to his lesser-known... -
An Uncommon Poet for the Common Man: A Study of Philip Larkin's Poetry by Lolette Kuby 9789027927200
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £68.24No detailed description available for "An Uncommon Poet for the Common Man".Book InformationISBN 9789027927200Author Lolette KubyFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint -
Poetry Against the World: Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain by Magdalena Kay
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Poetry Against the World: Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain brings together two major poets, who espouse opposite aesthetic ambitions, yet are both taken as paragons of... -
Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves by John Sutherland
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A brilliant biography - John Sutherland has brought Monica Jones to life as she deserves.' Claire Tomalin'Eye-opening... in this account [Monica Jones] comes alive.' The Sunday TimesMonica Jones was... -
Belonging and Estrangement in the Poetry of Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles Causley by Rory Waterman 9781409470878
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Focusing on the significance of place, connection and relationship in three poets who are seldom considered in conjunction, Rory Waterman argues that Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles Causley... -
Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews, 1952-85 by Philip Larkin 9780472030071
Booksplease Price: £26.92Further Requirements gathers interviews, broadcasts, statements, and reviews that collectively offer a surprising portrait of Philip Larkin: mordant, modest, intolerant, and generous-but always... -
Belonging and Estrangement in the Poetry of Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles Causley Rory Waterman 9781032926797
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Focusing on the significance of place, connection and relationship in three poets who are seldom considered in conjunction, Rory Waterman argues that Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles Causley... -
At the Garden's Dark Edge: Selected Poems Anthony Thwaite 9781481321839
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Anthony Thwaite (1930-2021) was one of the most formidable voices in postwar English letters. Deeply esteemed by fellow poets and critics for his original and technically controlled poetry, Thwaite... -
So You Think You Know Philip Larkin?: A Quiz Book by M R Sethi 9781665710398
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £9.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665710398Author M R SethiFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint -
So You Think You Know Philip Larkin?: A Quiz Book by M R Sethi 9781665710404
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £18.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665710404Author M R SethiFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint -
Peter Dickinson: Words and Music Peter Dickinson 9781783271061
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £79.79Articles, tributes and reminiscences of composer, pianist and author Peter Dickinson are here brought together for the first time. Peter Dickinson made an enduring contribution to British musical... -
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Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright: Much-Loved Poems You Half-Remember by Ana Sampson 9781843175940 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.83Great poetry 'finds its way to the hearts of many, not just the minds of the few', and this delightful collection is the ideal way to browse, remember and enjoy some of poetry's greatest hits... -
Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright: Much-Loved Poems You Half-Remember by Ana Sampson 9781789295467
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Great poetry 'finds its way to the hearts of many, not just the minds of the few', and this delightful collection is the ideal way to browse, remember and enjoy some of poetry's greatest hits.The new... -
How to Enjoy Poetry by Frank Skinner
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever, in the twenty-first century, because people don't have a lot of time and... -
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.09SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the standard biography of Ted Hughes for a... -
Dylan Thomas John Goodby 9781789149326
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78This concise biography of Dylan Thomas incorporates the most recent research, challenging the legend of the dissolute bard to reveal a diligent, professional writer, author of some of the century's... -
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A Financial Times Book of the Year Though we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning... -
On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives by Andrew H. Miller
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.96"To be someone-to be anyone-is about...not being someone else. Miller's amused and inspired book is utterly compelling."-Adam Phillips"A compendium of expressions of wonder over what might have been.... -
In Time by C. K. Williams 9780226899510
Booksplease Price: £30.71Winner of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and numerous other awards, C. K. Williams is one of the most distinguished poets of his generation. Known for the variety of his... -
Japanese Haiku Poems by Peter Washington
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Once confined to a literary elite in Japan, haiku are now written all over the world by poets who find their combination of brevity, technical discipline and expressive content irresistible. This... -
Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers: Modern Friends Richard Wilson 9781350433854
Booksplease Price: £99.09'Richard Wilson's meticulously researched, powerfully argued and brilliantly written account of Shakespeare's 20th-century fascist followers is not just an important but a genuinely essential book.'... -
Collected Poems by Kingsley Amis 9780141194219
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'One of the very best of our poets' Anthony PowellKingsley Amis wrote poems throughout his life, turning his acerbic, bracing perceptiveness on the same subjects that fill his novels: lust, lost...