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So what if Larkin was reactionary? The poems still sing

Philip Larkin was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He was also, among other things, a librarian at Hull University, an editor of the Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, a huge fan of Margaret Thatcher, a prodigious writer of letters, an aficionado of jazz music and…

Evening Standard

Philip Larkin flinched from intimacy – how would he have coped with social media?

A century after the poet’s birth, Imtiaz Dharker introduces her own poem about the grumpy great, Swiping left on Larkin

The Guardian - UK

Was Philip Larkin stifled by his job as a librarian? New research suggests he was rather dedicated

Named Britain’s greatest postwar writer by the Times in 2008, Philip Larkin remains justly celebrated as a wry observer of life’s routines, banalities and quiet poignancies. He was a writer who once spoke of poetry as “enhancing the everyday”.

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Philip Larkin at 100: Why the morbid curmudgeon still belongs in schools

A century after the poet’s birth, Larkin’s friend and biographer Andrew Motion talks to Kevin E G Perry about his controversial prejudices, his keen sense of mortality and why he continues to deserve a place on the national curriculum

The Independent UK

Nadhim Zahawi, from fleeing Iraq as a child to Chancellor, via YouGov, vaccine roll-out and education

Represents Shakespeare's constituency and has spoken of how poet Philip Larkin helped him improve his English as a teenager

Wales Online

Philip Larkin’s profound and beautiful poetry sent me back to the classroom

The exam board that dropped the poet and others from the curriculum has overlooked their effects on young minds

The Guardian - UK

Nadhim Zahawi: axing Larkin and Owen poems for GCSE is cultural vandalism

Education secretary denounces exam board’s decision to replace the two poets in English literature course

The Guardian - UK

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Wilfred Owen and Philip Larkin’s GCSE removal is ‘cultural vandalism’ – Zahawi

Nadhim Zahawi hit out on Thursday at the move by OCR, which is part of a wider reform of the exam board’s anthology.

The Independent UK

Poem of the week: Hang Gliders with Saxophones by Ian Pople

A vision of jazz’s iconic instrument as an acrobatic, airborne wonder

The Guardian - UK

Everything I Know About Love highlights the pain and pleasure of dating a Softboi

As Dolly Alderton’s hit memoir finally arrives on screen in a BBC adaptation, Olivia Petter examines one of the dating tropes it dismantles

The Independent UK

Poem of the week: Last Hope by Ben Wilkinson

This version of a sonnet by the French symbolist poet Paul Verlaine has a down-to-earth lyricism recalling Philip Larkin’s

The Guardian - UK

What I’ve learned from 10 years of therapy - and why it’s time to stop

Therapy was like finding a key for a door that had been locked my whole life. Here are the nine things it’s taught me

The Guardian - UK

I’m thrilled we’ll get to read John le Carré’s letters – but what can this dying art reveal?

We like to think private correspondence reveals all, but the truth is a lot more complicated

The Guardian - UK

And did those feet: 10 walks inspired by famous poets

Matching rich verse with great scenery, these strolls follow in the footsteps of some of our greatest wordsmiths, from William Blake to Carol Ann Duffy

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This be the verse for the Queen’s jubilee: Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and Elizabeth II

Letter: David Evans recalls Philip Larkin’s poem for the silver jubilee and his pastiche of what he imagined Ted Hughes might write

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