For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems, it is chosen by Martin Amis. 'Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, 'laugh out loud' (as if there's another way of doing it)? Who else uses an essentially conversational idiom to achieve such a variety of emotional effects? Who else takes us, and takes us so often, from sunlit levity to mellifluous gloom? ...Larkin, often, is more than memorable: he is instantly unforgettable' - Martin Amis.
- ISBN13 9780571258109
- Publish Date 1 September 2011 (first published 30 September 1991)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 30 October 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English