Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis . First paperback Printing

Larkin, Philip

ISBN 10: 0571258115 / ISBN 13: 9780571258116

Edité par London. Faber & Faber Ltd, 2012

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London. Faber & Faber Ltd. 2012. First paperback Edition/First Printing (full number line including the number 1 on the copyright page). Soft Covers. Crown octavo 8vo. 7½" by 5" (190 mm x 126 mm) approx. 88 pp. A new selection of Larkin's poetry drawing on the four published collections and the uncollected poems, selected with an introduction by Martin Amis. Book is as new with no wear. The covers will be protected with a new inert archival 100 micron sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS or Transglobal Express. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis . First paperback Printing
• Éditeur: London. Faber & Faber Ltd
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0571258115
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780571258116
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: As New
• Poids: 350 grammes

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Synopsis

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

À propos de l?auteur

Philip Larkin, poet, novelist and librarian, was born in Coventry in 1922. He published four volumes of poetry - The North Ship (1945), The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974) - for which he received innumerable honours including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the WH Smith Award. He also wrote two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947), and his journalism is collected in two volumes, All What Jazz: A Record Diary and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982. He worked as librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985.

In 2003, he was chosen as Britain's best-loved poet of the previous fifty years by the Poetry Book Society; in 2008, The Times named him Britain's greatest post-war writer; and in 2016, a memorial stone in his name was unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.