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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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When Philip Larkin was appointed as University Librarian at Hull I was the chairman of the library committee and saw him almost daily.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Philip Larkin's spectacles and the ceramic frog which he kept on his desk.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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The particle physicist and essayist Kari Enqvist makes a train journey in the company of Philip Larkin's poems of the 1950s.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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This is remarkably similar to Philip Larkin's personality, for he, too, was dominated by words.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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And Philip Larkin's Victa lawnmower, which he reportedly hated with an unmatched passion, has been acquired for the Larkin Collection in the University of Hull.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Poet and jazz critic Philip Larkin wrote in 1970 on his revelation that his dislike of modern jazz was because it seemed to him a modernist art.
I have just finished a teenage novel called Feather boy by Nicky Singer and I am now rereading some of Philip Larkin's poems - my current favourite is The Arundel tomb.
Six of his poems were included in Philip Larkin's "Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse"
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet and novelist born in Coventry and educated in Oxford.
It was, according to Szreter, a 'culture of abstinence', influential right through to Philip Larkin's 1963 ('Sexual intercourse began'), which mainly drove down the fertility of England and Wales.
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