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.






Selected Poetry
Isn't Forever
Let Us Compare Mythologies
Yeats
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
On the Motion and Immobility of Douve
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
The Smeds and the Smoos
Swansea Automatic
Hansel and Gretel
The 'White City'
Signs Like This
The Strong Room
Traveling The Blue Road
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid
The Moon Before Morning
Poems