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.







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Milk and Honey
Swansea Automatic
A Quarter of an Hour
Steep Tea
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Slippery Characters
Postcards from God
In Reality
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New and Selected Poems. Volume One
Isn't Forever