May 2021 Issue D J Taylor Mr & Mrs Toad Revisited Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves By John Sutherland LR
December 2018 Issue Sean O'Brien How Exciting about the Lavatory! Philip Larkin: Letters Home 1936–1977 By James Booth
November 1992 Issue Julian Barnes When He Sat Down His Tongue Came Out The Selected Letters of Philip Larkin By Anthony Thwaite (ed) LR
April 1993 Issue Anthony Burgess Not a Very Lovely Thing to Be Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life By Andrew Motion LR
February 1984 Issue Carol Rumens Larkin About Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 By Philip Larkin LR
May 2009 Issue Alan Brownjohn The Rise of the Ordinary Bloke The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their Contemporaries By Zachary Leader (ed) LR
August 2014 Issue Jeremy Noel-Tod Verse and Worse Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love By James Booth LR
March 2012 Issue Matthew Adams All That Has Survived The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin By Archie Burnett (ed) LR
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