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.






Insistence
The Lover's Pinch
New and Selected Poems. Volume One
Signs Like This
Bedouin Of The London Evening: Collected Poems
The 'White City'
Jinx
Being Alive