Philip larkin poems, paperback/philip larkin

For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin.

Drawing on Larkins four collections and on his uncollected poems.

Chosen by Martin Amis.

Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, laugh out loud (as if theres another way of doing it)? Who else uses an essentially conversational idiom to achieve such a variety of emotional effects? Who else takes us, and takes us so often, from sunlit levity to mellifluous gloom? .

Larkin, often, is more than memorable: he is instantly unforgettable.

(Martin Amis).