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 ...
In 1972, the Secretary of State for the Environment commissioned a report entitled How Do You Want To Live? The idea was to ...
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 ...
This story appears in the April 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. If I were called in / To construct a religion / I should make use of water, wrote the English poet Philip Larkin in 1954 ...