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.







A Quarter of an Hour
Poems and Paintings of Herefordshire and the Neighbouring Marches
Third World Girl: Selected Poems [with live readings DVD]
The Tamarit Poems
Pretend You Don't Know Me
Selected Poetry
On the Motion and Immobility of Douve
Bedouin Of The London Evening: Collected Poems
Swansea Automatic
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid
New and Selected Poems. Volume One
Floss
Somewhere Else Entirely
Signs Like This
Soemps
What Is the Truth?
A Children's Treasury of Milligan
Then What
A Monkey At the Window
Spiritlands
Over the Moon
A Colomber in the House of Poesy
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Milk and Honey
Poems