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.







Cable
Bridge 116
Milk and Honey
Then What
Comic Poems
Macavity
Words the Turtle Taught Me
The Moon Before Morning
Greetings from Grandpa
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land
You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus
Floss
Over the Moon
The Handle of the Door
Jinx
Negative of a Group Photograph
Poems
The Silvering