PhilipLarkinSociety
@PLSoc
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Promotes awareness of Larkin’s work through live events, 'About Larkin' journal, website, YouTube, podcast, newsletters, Instagram & BlueSky. Become a member!
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Joined July 2014
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!
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This was Larkin’s answer to a schoolboy interviewer who asked what he was enthusiastic about other than jazz. He concluded: ‘This hardly sounds very enthusiastic, I know, but it’s the nearest I can get to it.’.
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‘I’m very fond of the dailyness of life. I like getting up, and going to work, and opening the post, and answering letters offensively, and coming back in the evening, and having a drink and settling down to listen to records or to try to write poetry.’.
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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.’
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Another example of Larkin as reference point in America.
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Children will learn to read only if their parents read them books that fire their imaginations.
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RT @DurhamWASP: “I have a theory that ‘holidays’ evolved from the medieval pilgrimage, and are essentially a kind of penance for being so h….
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RT @PadraigBelton: Hosting a book talk in an hour. But got to town a smidgin early — and the Philip Larkin Society kindly invited me to do….
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RT @DurhamWASP: Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand,.As epitaph:.He chucked up everything.And just cleared off,.And always the voice will sound….
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RT @jimgthornton: @postmenlike @PLSoc Gonna visit. Bring my Thornbury gang. Here's one of my favs. Wedding Wind by Philip Larkin - Famous p….
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Larkin’s birthday event in Hull, 9th August. Graham Chesters on Larkin’s Postcode: HU5.
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A talk by Prof. Graham Chesters, chair of the Philip Larkin Society, in celebration of Philip Larkin's birthday
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Settle down for a fireside chat about Larkin with Malcolm Gutie.
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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.
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RT @postmenlike: Decorating The Butcher's Hook, Thornbury, with the last two lines of 'Party Politics.' @PLSoc. "You may get drunk, or dry….
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RT @amjuster: If you read each even-numbered line as a continuation of the previous line after a caesura, this #PhilipLarkin #poem starts c….
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RT @DurhamWASP: Ought we to smile, .Perhaps make friends? .No: in the race for seats .You’re best alone. Friendship is not worth while. ….
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The Larkin 10-5 Toad sends its congratulations to Hull KR!
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That little bit of Larkin support got them over the line with three minutes to go! Congratulations to Hull KR on their Wembley success. We have a track record. This was the 10-5 Larkin Toad from 2010, designed with the help of the legendary Steve Hubbard. @hullkrofficial
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