Smith College will present a reading by Joan Larkin, the college’s new Grace Hazard Conkling Poet in Residence, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 16, in Stoddard Hall Auditorium. The reading is free, open ...

In his valuable collection of essays and reviews, Required Writing, Philip Larkin wondered–in a piece about Sir John Betjeman–“Can it be that, as Eliot dominated the first half of the twentieth ...

Many lovers of Philip Larkin’s poetry were surprised to hear yesterday, via the BBC, that a new poem and a trove of unpublished work by the poet had been discovered. But no one was more surprised than ...