Join us online for a discussion of the poetry of Philip Larkin. Andrew Motion will help guide us.
 

Andrew Motion wrote the first and authorised biography of Philip Larkin and is his literary executor. From 1999 to 2009 he was the UK Poet Laureate, and is now Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins. He lives in Baltimore and has recently become a joint British-American citizen. His most recent collection of poems is Waders (McSweeney’s, 2024).
 

We hope to discuss some of the following poems:

“Coming”
“Maiden Name”
“Church Going”
“Home is so Sad”
“Water”
“The Whitsun Weddings”
“Days”
“Talking in Bed”
“First Sight”
“Dockery and Son”
“An Arundel Tomb”
“The Trees”
“High Windows”
“Dublinesque”
“This Be The Verse”
“Sad Steps”
“Cut Grass”
“The Explosion”
“Aubade”
“The Mower”

Please feel free to come even if you have not read these poems.

For more information or to get on our Poetry Event email list, email poetry@prattlibrary.org.

Pictured: Larkin on cover of Philip Larkin : Life, Art and Love by James Booth. Discover more by or about Larkin in our catalog.