Daring and Formal Originality in Philip Larkin’s Poetry, with Mark Ford

Join this online workshop for a chance to dive deep into the formal originality of Philip Larkin, one of the 20th-century’s most iconic and popular poets.

The session will feature discussion, analysis, close reading and a chance to write new poems inspired by Larkin’s poetry, led by celebrated poet and scholar Mark Ford.

Mark Ford is the author of four collections of poetry: Landlocked (Chatto & Windus, 1992), Soft Sift (Faber & Faber, 2001), Six Children (Faber & Faber, 2011), and Enter, Fleeing (Faber & Faber, 2018). He has also published three monographs, Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams (Faber & Faber, 2000), Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner (Harvard University Press, 2016), and Woman Much Missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2023).

This event is hosted on Cath Drake’s ‘The Verandah’.