The North Ship

Name: The North Ship
Brand: Faber & Faber
SKU: 9780571260133
Price: 15.75 EUR
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English

By (author): Philip Larkin

The North Ship, Philip Larkin's earliest volume of verse, was first published in August 1945 and reissued in 1966 by Faber. The introduction, by Larkin himself, explains the circumstances of its publication and the influences which shaped its content.

This is the first thing
I have understood:
Time is the echo of an axe
Within a wood.

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Weight: 85g
Dimensions: 131 x 200mm
Publication Date: 02 Apr 2015
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780571260133

About Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and was educated at King Henry VIII School Coventry and St John's College Oxford. As well as his volumes of poems which include The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows he wrote two novels Jill and A Girl in Winter and two books of collected journalism: All What Jazz: A Record Library and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. He was the best-loved poet of his generation and the recipient of innumerable honours including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the WHSmith Award.