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.







Ten Poems on the Telephone
Five Poems About Teachers
Strong in the Rain
Book of Mercy
The Moon Before Morning
Disturbance
The Sun of Hereafter
Just Like Brothers
The Tamarit Poems
New and Selected Poems. Volume One
The Dream of a Masque, and Other Poems
The Handle of the Door
Dog Poems
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Hansel and Gretel
The 'White City'
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
A Colomber in the House of Poesy
Selected Poetry
This Is Yarrow
101 Poems About Childhood
Words the Turtle Taught Me
Being Alive
Comic Poems