Through the Lens of Larkin

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20/09/2017

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A look at the life of Philip Larkin as seen through his photography.

The life of Philip Larkin as seen through his photography. Poet and academic John Wedgwood Clarke looks at pictures found after his death and asks what they say about his work.

A look at the life and loves of Philip Larkin, one of the 20th century's greatest British poets, seen through his photographs. 

Throughout his life Larkin recorded the people and events around him and took scores of self-portraits. Poet and academic John Wedgwood Clarke looks through more than five thousand photographs found after Larkin's death and asks what they tell us about his work.

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