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Modern-ish Poets: Philip Larkin

Seamus Perry and Mark Ford, 14 April 2025

11 May 2017 · 09mins

In their first episode together, recorded in 2017, Mark Ford and Seamus Perry looked at the life and work of Philip Larkin, a poet much written about in the archive of the London Review of Books.