Andrew Motion

A remarkable show of devotion

Much of the poet’s 40-year correspondence with his mother revolves around grocery shopping, lonely suppers and indigestion

  • Philip Larkin: Letters Home, 1936–1977

    James Booth (ed.)

    Faber, pp. 612

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