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.







The Speechless Act
Hansel and Gretel
Book of Mercy
Milk and Honey
You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus
Gold from the Stone
Words the Turtle Taught Me
Floss
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
States of Happiness
Comic Poems
Never Feed a Grumpy Reindeer
The 'White City'
Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems (Everyman Pocket Poets)
Steep Tea
Signs Like This
Luck Is the Hook
The Handle of the Door
Bridge 116
Somewhere Else Entirely
Insistence