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 Tamarit Poems
101 Poems About Childhood
Before We Were Strangers
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land
The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here
Being Alive
Let Us Compare Mythologies
A Quarter of an Hour
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid
Swansea Automatic