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All the poets turned down for the laureate in 1968

Prominent poets of the era — including John Betjeman, WH Auden, and Philip Larkin — were disparaged, accused of being drunkards, snobs, communists, mentally unstable, or even creators of explicit content

Evening Standard

Move to halt church sell-offs chimes with Philip Larkin’s prophetic homage

Dwindling attendance has led to the closure of 1,700 places of worship since a prescient 1954 poem wondered about their fate

The Guardian - UK

Sleeping on Islands by Andrew Motion review – candid stories from the former poet laureate

A revealing memoir illuminates the conflict between wordly success and creative freedom

The Guardian - UK

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Martin Amis, acclaimed British novelist and London scenester of '80s and '90s, dies at 73

Martin Amis, the acclaimed British author best known for “Money,” “London Fields” and a dozen other novels of flash, style and substance, who was also a fixture of the London literary scene, has died at age 73.

Los Angeles Times

Martin Amis obituary

Writer whose acrobatic wit defied gravity and solemnity and who epitomised literary fame in an age of glitz and hype

The Guardian - UK

Master stylist Martin Amis was the Mick Jagger of the literary world

The author of ‘Money’ and ‘The Rachel Papers’ once said that posterity was ‘no bloody use to me’, but his incisive novels and essays remain some of the most influential of his generation, writes Martin Chilton

The Independent UK

‘A billion listens? Is that a lot?’ John Cooper Clarke on penning possibly the world’s favourite poem

I Wanna Be Yours, a love poem that rhymes Ford Cortina with vacuum cleaner, has been a school text and a wedding staple. But now, thanks to TikTok and Arctic Monkeys, it has gone spectacularly global. So who was it written for?

The Guardian - UK

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Jonathan Raban obituary

Writer of travel books, novels and essays, whose Soft City was an early example of psychogeography

The Guardian - UK

Philip Larkin: a canary in the coalmine of cancel culture

Hull University in midwinter provided a perfect backdrop for a centenary lecture series on its most famous librarian

The Guardian - UK

Philip Larkin’s letter about the Ilkley screamer

Brief letters: Ted Hughes poetry reading | Avanti trains | Hoarding toes | A measure of squidge | Deep dive into jargon

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: No Remedy by Drummond Allison

A complicated meditation on vexed personal relationships is leavened with energetic invention

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Philip Larkin at 100: a lasting gift

Editorial: Whatever we may feel about the man, some things are eternal, and in his work he found the words for them

The Guardian - UK

Five men and one woman who took on impossible job – of poet laureate

Several of the poets appointed by, or inherited by the Queen, had to deal with public mockery. No wonder Philip Larkin turned down the role

The Guardian - UK

No tusks: What else did we do right as kids?

The poet Philip Larkin put his finger on it years ago with: They f*** you up your mom and dad. He co

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Evening Standard

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…

The Guardian - UK

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 Conversation

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”.

The Independent UK

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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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 Independent UK

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 Guardian - 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 Independent 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 Guardian - 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

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