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...One writer who knew that very well was Philip Larkin – his description of a G&T in “Sympathy in White Major” (1974) is so euphonious it deserves a trigger warning: When I drop four cubes of iceChimingly...
...Letter in response to this article: Trump’s angry outbursts should be a voter concern / From Jane Larkin, Tampa, FL, US...
...For Larkin, who began her career with fashion designer Romeo Gigli, the possibilities are wide....
...Soon James confirms it: “there was never a mistake for you that he could leave unmade”....
...Which poet — also well-known as a novelist — had more poems than anybody else in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse, edited by Philip Larkin?...
...A line from a Philip Larkin poem keeps running through my mind: “And that will be England gone.” In “Going Going”, Larkin was lamenting overdevelopment and pollution....
...Mayflies, by Andrew O’Hagan, Faber, RRP£14.99, 288 pages Mayflies begins in 1986 — with working-class Ayrshire teenagers Tully and James joining friends for a joyful and heady musical pilgrimage around...
...On a more ambivalent note, economist and habitual gloomster James Rickards tallies up the winners and losers of a post-pandemic world in The New Great Depression (Portfolio, January)....
...Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin, by Clive James, Picador, RRP£12.99 This slim collection of Clive James’ writings on Philip Larkin demonstrates both a life-long passion for...
...James straddled high and low culture, now translating Dante or commenting sensitively on Larkin, now introducing the eccentric verbal stylings of the Cuban novelty singer Margarita Pracatan or candidly lusting...
...Janan Ganesh has the decades mixed up (“James Bond — a countercultural hero for our time”, Life & Arts, August 24)....
...With partition, Sir James Craig, the leader of Unionism, obtained the creation of a six-county state — “the largest area in which there was a decisive Protestant majority in which unionist power could be...
...Philip Larkin: Letters Home 1936-1977, edited by James Booth, Faber, RRP£40, 612 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Instead of his elaborate, almost rambling style in his blog posts, which are more akin to James Joyce or Virginia Woolf, we get Philip Larkin mixed with Ernest Hemingway....
...James Hogg, author of the classic novel of twisted religion The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, asked John Murray II to find him a wife; Byron asked him to collect from the London...
...Such experience enables Mr Sanna and his co-founder Katrina Larkin, who was a co-founder of the Big Chill music festival, to add “magic and gold dust” to their venues, he claimed....
...Larkin lived in a flat at 32 Pearson Park — a typical late 19th-century suburban semi — for 18 years from 1956, producing some of his best-loved poetry during the period....
...And yet the three sexagenarians go on trying to keep up appearances in typically English middle-class style as the tension builds under James Macdonald’s taut direction....
...Jonathan Larkin, Quantopian’s chief investment officer, stresses that the diversity of its contributors is vital....
...In What Maisie Knew by Henry James, the governess Miss Overmore marries her pupil’s father Beale Farange there. Will that do?...
...One encounters favourite writers such as Conrad, Kipling and Philip Larkin as well as those he previously neglected, such as Olivia Manning....
...To quote the poet Adrian Mitchell, parodying Philip Larkin: “They tuck you up, your mum and dad/ They read you Peter Rabbit, too”....
...Had poetry, to borrow from Philip Larkin on his own late-career extinction, given up on Eliot? Had he lost the “intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings”?...
...Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, by James Booth, Bloomsbury, RRP£25, 544 pages Roger Lewis is author of ‘What am I Still Doing Here?’...
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