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.







Being Alive
Up In The Attic
Let Us Compare Mythologies
Slipping the Leash
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
Dog Poems
Gold from the Stone
Spiritlands
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Strong in the Rain
Somewhere Else Entirely
Hansel and Gretel
Comic Poems
Red Devon
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one
Soemps
This Is Yarrow
My First Mr. Men Nursery Rhymes
Poems
States of Happiness
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods