Description
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.







The Lover's Pinch
Hansel and Gretel
Five Bedtime Poems for Children
Pretend You Don't Know Me
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Let Us Compare Mythologies
River Lane
Under Clouded Skies & Beauregard: Pens?es sous les nuages & Beauregard (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets, 5)
Just Like Brothers
Spiritlands
A Colomber in the House of Poesy