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Philip Larkin at 100: Why the morbid curmudgeon still belongs in schools
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoA century after the poet’s birth, Larkin’s friend and biographer Andrew Motion talks to Kevin E G...
OPINION - So what if Larkin was reactionary? The poems still sing
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoPhilip Larkin was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He was also, among other things, a...
Was Philip Larkin stifled by his job as a librarian? New research suggests he was rather dedicated
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoNamed Britain’s greatest postwar writer by the Times in 2008, Philip Larkin remains justly celebrated as a wry observer of life’s routines, banalities and quiet poignancies. He was a writer ...
This has to be the Left’s most pathetic anti-Israel protest yet
The Telegraph via Yahoo Canada News· 8 months agoThe conflict in Gaza has prompted a wave of shock resignations. But not just from members of Sir...
This Book of Poetry Written by AI Should Scare the Hell Out of You
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Canada News· 11 months agoPhoto Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyThere are profound fears about the ways...
Books of the month: From Long Island by Colm Tóibín to The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoTiffany Murray’s mum Joan, who was the chef at the famous Rockfield recording studios in Wales,...
Poems On The Underground archive donated to Cambridge University Library
PA Media: Entertainment via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoPoems On The Underground, the public art scheme which has seen the words of literary greats...
Master stylist Martin Amis was the Mick Jagger of the literary world
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoThe author of ‘Money’ and ‘The Rachel Papers’ once said that posterity was ‘no bloody use to me’,...
All the poets turned down for the laureate in 1968
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 12 months agoProminent poets of the era — including John Betjeman, WH Auden, and Philip Larkin — were disparaged, accused of being drunkards, snobs, communists,...
All of Us Strangers on Disney+: how to watch Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott fall in love (on screen)
Evening Standard via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIt's the stuff of dreams: Andrew Scott, aka the Hot Priest, and Paul Mescal, Normal People's...