He then became a professional librarian, in Shropshire and Leicester, then at Queen’s College, Belfast, and finally as head librarian at the University of Hull’s Brynmor Jones Library, where his modernising stewardship continues to be appreciated.
He studied English at Oxford, where he made valued friendships including with the novelist Kingsley Amis. Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922. So, ‘A View of Pearson Park, Hull’ sits alongside his poem ‘The Trees’ while a striking portrait of Larkin’s lover and muse Monica Jones illustrates one of his best-known poems, ‘This Be The Verse’. Working with the Hull History Centre archive, he selected an intimate series of Larkin’s black-and-white photographs for this edition – many previously unpublished – that chime with moments in the poems. As Larkin’s biographer, and a literary executor of his estate, Andrew Motion has a unique insight into his complete creative legacy. Although disparate in subject matter, there are many subtle connections between Larkin’s photography and his poetry, and this edition is the first to bring the two together. Helpfully for posterity, he was also one of the first keen selfie-takers, carefully managing his photographic image with perfectly posed and carefully lit portraits. Larkin was as passionate about photography as he was about poetry and he sought to chronicle the people and places that influenced his life.
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