Subject: Larkin, Philip (Keywords)

In one of the most comprehensive pictures of the poet yet published, James Booth examines the people, the places and the chance encounters that influenced Larkin and shaped his poetry. From Larkin's early life, his academic studies and his aspirations as a novelist, an image emerges of a reserved...

This lively volume of Philip Larkin's prose writings - reviews and critical assessments of books and writers; pieces on jazz, mostly uncollected; some long and revealing interviews - is an entertaining and significant collection stamped by wit, originality and intelligence.