Synopsis: |
For the first time, Faber publishes a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. This title draws on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems and is 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 there's 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). |