Philip Larkin Poems : Selected by Martin Amis

Author(s): Larkin, Philip
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 03/01/2013,
Pagination: 128 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780571258116,
Description:

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. 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