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
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
The Moon Before Morning
The Pope's Mustard-Maker: a comic operetta in three acts
The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here
Book of Mercy
The Art of Derek Walcott
Bedouin Of The London Evening: Collected Poems
Hansel and Gretel
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Milk and Honey
About Poems and How Poems Are Not About
Ten Pre-Raphaelite Poems
52 Ways of Looking At a Poem
New and Selected Poems. Volume One
Somewhere Else Entirely
The World-Ending Fire
Lotus Gatherers
Days of Grace
The Sun of Hereafter
Comic Poems
Music Lessons: Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures
Dog Poems
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid