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...But Crumey seems less interested in bringing things to a clear conclusion here than he was in earlier novels, and when another new narrator appeared on page 456, I felt like Philip Larkin: “Too much confectionery...
...It’s a literary project matched in ambition only by John Updike’s Rabbit series....
...Things went similarly smoothly when Motion was teaching English at Hull University, where he hit it off with Philip Larkin (“the greatest poet alive”) and, after Larkin’s death in 1985, Motion became the...
...For Larkin, who began her career with fashion designer Romeo Gigli, the possibilities are wide....
...The Victorian art critic and philosopher John Ruskin had family links with Croydon, a town in what is modern-day south London....
...Encouraged by John Richardson’s compelling life-into-art biography, we have long perceived Picasso’s paintings as fuelled by his erotic experience....
...Now try this I was one of the guests in the BBC’s Larkin Revisited series, talking about one of my favourite poets, Philip Larkin, and specifically his excellent poem Talking in Bed....
...When I was a junior doctor in the NHS, my fellow doctors and I would greet our “bosses” appropriately: Doctor Lightman, Mr Larkin, Miss Beaconsfield, Sir Richard, Professor Khaw (or more often just “Prof...
...Both John Sutherland’s biography of Monica Jones and Daisy Hay’s review “A refusal to conform” (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, May 1) fill me with dismay....
...In Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me, John Sutherland acknowledges that his subject’s claims to significance are slender without her connection to Larkin....
...Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Lovesby John Sutherland, Weidenfeld & Nicolson £20 Academic Monica Jones was “the sharpest-eared of listeners to literature I’ve known”, writes Sutherland...
...He read her poetry and she came to love Larkin and Plath (she laughs as we recite “This Be the Verse” to each other), and he introduced her to songwriters....
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...And finally, that Larkin poem....
...He experiences terse dealings with novelist John Fowles — in an aside, Gekoski comments that Fowles’s epic The Magus is “the only book I have ever thrown out of the window”....
...Launching the challenge, John Larkin QC told the court that the protocol was “unlawful on a number of grounds”, including that it treated Northern Ireland differently to the rest of the UK by imposing a...
...The series is written and hosted by John Sweeney, the long-serving British reporter best known for his work on the BBC current affairs series Panorama....
...Snow, by John Banville, Faber, RRP£14.99, 352 pages There’s a colonel, there’s a candlestick, and there’s a body in the library....
...A while ago, Lombard likened Pearson to Philip Larkin’s description of a good book — “a beginning, a muddle and an end”. John Fallon will reach his end as chief executive this week....
...barn . . . where the yokels gape” follows a more disquieting reflection: “Better the Dickens you know,” Larkin mused, “than the Dickens you do not know.”...
...John Sutherland’s Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), a biography of the poet’s lover and muse, has generated keen interest ahead of its publication in April....
...For Philip Larkin, sexual intercourse began in 1963 — “between the end of the Chatterley ban /And The Beatles’ first LP”....
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