New Releases by Philip Larkin

Sono gli anni del secondo conflitto mondiale; Katherine Lind è una ragazza straniera che ha trovato lavoro nella biblioteca di una piccola città della provincia inglese, diretta dall'insopportabile signor Anstey. Un giorno riceve una lettera: è di Robin Fennel, il suo vecchio amico di penna, una delle poche persone che conosce nel paese. Il pensiero di Katherine corre subito alla leggendaria estate dei suoi sedici anni, passata nella casa dei Fennel, e all'attrazione nata tra lei e Robin. Non si sono mai più sentiti da allora, ma lui - che è sotto le armi - le annuncia una visita. Cosa può essere rimasto in un gelido inverno di guerra di quel lontano, innocente amore adolescenziale? Il secondo romanzo di Philip Larkin è un intenso racconto che parla di guerra e di pace, di esilio e di vacanza, di inverni e di estati; è il «racconto di un poeta» - ha scritto Joyce Carol Oates - «che sa evocare, con poche nude immagini, un senso di spreco, disillusione e vuoto profondo degno del più desolato Beckett», una storia «di grande sensibilità, meditativa, commovente, di proporzioni volutamente modeste che ricorda l'opera di Virginia Woolf».

A partir de los documentos depositados tras su muerte en la Biblioteca Brynmor Jones, de Hull, este volumen recopila parte de la ficción juvenil e inédita de Larkin, escrita bajo el seudónimo de Brunnette Coleman. Creadas básicamente para deleitar a Kingsley Amis y Edmund Crispin, los irreverentes amigos de Larkin en Oxford, estas nouvelles nos trasladan a un internado femenino, remedando las populares novelas sobre colegialas tan de moda en su época. He aquí los primeros balbuceos literarios de Larkin, textos pseudoautobiográficos en los que, usando una voz prestada, da rienda suelta a sus tendencias, explicita su confusa sexualidad y desata sus críticas al sistema escolar femenino, lo que liberó su creatividad y le llevo convertirse en el aclamado escritor y poeta que es hoy en día.

Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces ('The Old Fools', 'This Be the Verse', 'The Explosion', and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death and transience that is so typical of the poet. This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.

Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a 'conservative anarchist' and admirer of Hitler, who died relatively early in Larkin's life; to his timid depressive mother Eva, who by contrast, lived long, and whose final years were shadowed by dementia; and to his sister Kitty, the sparse surviving fragment of whose correspondence with her brother gives an enigmatic glimpse of a complex and intimate relationship- But it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother in particular that shaped the writer we know so well: a number of poems written over this time are for her, and the mood of pain, shadow and despondency that characterises his later verse draws its strength from his experience of the long, lonely years of her senility. One surprising element in the volume, however, is the joie de vivre shown in the large number of witty and engaging drawings of himself and Eva, as 'Young Creature' and 'Old Creature', with which he enlivens his letters throughout the three decades of her widowhood. This important edition, meticulously edited by Larkin's biographer, James Booth, is a key piece of scholarship that completes the portrait of this most cherished of English poets.

Katherine es una joven refugiada que trabaja como bibliotecaria en una gris ciudad inglesa. Hastiada de su trabajo y de la vida en general, lo único que le hace mantener la esperanza es la perspectiva de un reencuentro con el que fue su primer amor. Así, en las horas previas a su cita, Katherine revivirá las idílicas vacaciones que supusieron para ella la pérdida de la inocencia y el paso a la edad adulta. Ahora Robin, el protagonista de aquel crucial verano, tan glorioso como mortificante, tan radiante como precozmente crepuscular, podría poner fin a su monótona vida y arrancarla para siempre de las garras de la frustración.

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A stunning new edition that brings together all of Larkin's poems in addition to some unpublished pieces.

The North Ship, Philip Larkin's earliest volume of verse, was first published in August 1945. The introduction, by Larkin himself, explains the circumstances of its publication and the influences which shaped its contents.

The appearance of Philip Larkin's second prose collection - reviews and critical assessments of writers and writing; pieces on jazz, mostly uncollected; some long, revealing and often highly entertaining interviews given on various occasions - was a considerable literary event. Stamped by wit, originality and intelligence, it was vintage Larkin throughout: 'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.' 'I see life more as an affair of solitude diversified by company than as an affair of company diversified by solitude.' Q. 'How did you arrive upon the image of a toad for work or labour?' A. 'Sheer genius.'

The best way to experience the poetry of Philip Larkin on your iPad. Faber Voices lifts classic poems off the page, bringing together audio recordings of great poets reading their own work with an editor's selection of their poems. A wonderful and intimate experience for poetry lovers, Faber Voices are also an invaluable resource for those studying or exploring these works for the first time. This selection allows you to appreciate the poems as never before, in a beautifully clean design, with options to read and listen to the poet simultaneously. This is how poetry for iBooks should be.Features:See each poem exactly as it was intended, in a fixed format with no erroneous line breaks.Hear every poem as it should be heard, read by the poet at the tap of a finger.Experience the ultimate Larkin selection, made by his editors and estate exclusively for this ebook. The full list of poems:MCMXIVAt GrassDaysMr BleaneyAfternoonsVers de SociétéThe TreesChurch GoingThe ExplosionThe Whitsun WeddingsAn Arundel TombPhilip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922. He was the best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.Search 'Seamus Heaney', 'Wendy Cope' or 'Ted Hughes' for more Faber Voices.

Réfugiée en Angleterre, lors de la seconde guerre mondiale, Katherine Lind y survit solitaire, confrontée à la vie étriquée d’une bibliothèque de province. L’exil l’a coupée de tout. Ne subsiste, au milieu d’un hiver impitoyable, que le souvenir d’un mois d’été dans la campagne anglaise lorsque, six ans plus tôt, écolière encore, elle était venue rendre visite à son correspondant, Robin Fennel. Pourtant, il s’est passé peu de choses entre elle et ce garçon, si peu qu’elle ne sait comment l’accueillir, face à l’intimité qu’il quémande à la veille de partir pour le débarquement. « Odyssée à l’intérieur d’un rêve », où une existence affronte ses propres limites dans l’engrenage des ratages quotidiens, ce deuxième et dernier roman d’un jeune poète est devenu un classique des lettres anglaises. Philip Larkin a été désigné comme "le plus grand écrivain anglais depuis 1945" par The Times, en 2008.

Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his correspondent, lover and closest confidante, in a relationship which lasted over forty years until the poet's death in 1985. This remarkable unpublished correspondence only came to light after Monica Jones's death in 2001, and consists of nearly two thousand letters, postcards and telegrams, which chronicle - day by day, sometimes hour by hour - every aspect of Larkin's life and the convolutions of their relationship.

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

A writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader.

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Philip Larkin (1922-85) was not only one of the foremost English poets of the twentieth century, but also a notable novelist and a distinguished writer on jazz. He was jazz critic for The Daily Telegraph between 1961 and 1971. Jazz Writings brings together Larkin's reviews, articles and essays written for The Guardian, The Observer, The New Statesman, and numerous other publications.

Collects a wide range of writing by this witty and astute British poet, including commentary on a diverse list of authors

La introducción a la primera edición de esta recopilación de textos sobre jazz de Philip Larkin se convirtió rápidamente en una de las piezas prosísticas más celebradas del siglo XX. Por supuesto, esta nueva edición vuelve a incluirla, junto con otros escritos inéditos que constituyen la totalidad de los artículos que escribió Larkin para el Daily Telegraph entre 1961 y 1971. E incluye también agudos y vívidos retratos de un gran número de artistas pertenecientes a todas las épocas de la historia del jazz, preferentemente la que siempre subyugó a Larkin: el gran período clásico de Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller o Bessie Smith. «Por encima de todo, espero que estos escritos demuestren que adoro el jazz. He empezado refiriéndome al placer que me ha procurado en mi vida, y cuando imagino lo mucho que me habría perdido si, en lugar de haber nacido el 9 de agosto de 1922, hubiera muerto en aquellos años, me doy cuenta de cuán grande es mi deuda para con él. ¡Qué terrible haber vivido en el siglo XX y haber muerto antes de que King Oliver condujera a sus hombres a los estudios Gennett, en Richmond, Indiana, o antes de que Bessie Smith hiciera una audición ante Frank Walker, de que Bubber Miley se uniera a los Washingtonians de Duke Ellington! Si hay algún “mensaje” para mis lectores, es éste.»

Drawing on the papers deposited after his death in the Brynmore Jones Library, Hull, this volume collects together virtually all of Philip Larkin's remaining unpublished fiction.

Seven hundred of the great poet's letters are collected here offering a moving, instructive portrait of Larken, from his early correspondence with school friends to his last year of life, 1985, when he died at the age of sixty-three.