A personal reflection on poetry—from the harsh truths of Philip Larkin to the whimsical absurdity of Edward Lear, and the ...

A recurrent charge is that the UK’s destruction of the natural environment is one of the worst in the world. Typical insights are as follows: The traditional smallholding has almost disappeared, to be ...

That strange unwritten shilling life should tell how he is represented in Philip Larkin’s The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse by a single poem, a translation, the only translation ...

but the profound clarity of his poems showed me a… Larkin argues that those who don’t fear death are deluding themselves, but as I age I realise that he misses… He had a gift for wisecracks, but the ...

Across ten programmes and ten Philip Larkin poems, Simon Armitage, the poet laureate, finds out what happens when he revisits and unpicks Larkin's work in his centenary year. Show more Across ten ...

The man being referred to is likely Philip Larkin, a real poet who it's implied the Doctor has met in person at some point. The quote, "What survives of us is love," is a fitting encapsulation of ...

And once the wedding unexpectedly becomes a funeral, the emotional baggage is well and truly unzipped – dirty laundry flying across the drab Blackpool function room. Day’s script is smart and incisive ...