In a new biography, Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, James Booth does his best to present a warmer, kinder, more admirable Larkin, seeking in particular to defuse the kind of language Larkin used in ...
Larkin's poems cultivate solitude, withdrawal, "the wish to be alone". His persona is that of an awkward bachelor, too fond of his own company to crave other people's, too old (even when young) to ...
The 2024 record price for Diarmuid Larkin was for Smell of Rain, Kinvara The 2023 record price for Diarmuid Larkin was for Boats in the Dock (1969) The 2022 record price for Diarmuid Larkin was for ...