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.







Gift of the Old One
The Genre of Silence
New & Selected Potatoes
Four Branches of the Mabinogi. The Story of Branwen
States of Happiness
Centres of Cataclysm
My First Mr. Men Nursery Rhymes
Insistence
Newspaper Taxis - Poetry After the Beatles
Judas
Counting Backwards
Gold from the Stone
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two