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.







Gold from the Stone
Negative of a Group Photograph
Counting Backwards
Meet My Folks!
101 Poems About Childhood
Spiritlands
Confessional Sonnets
The Moon Before Morning
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
River Lane