Poetry Aloud: Philip Larkin

Professor J. R. Watson, author of the seminal article 'The Other Larkin' (1976), and Professor Stephen Regan, author of the acclaimed monograph, Philip Larkin (1992), numerous essays and articles on Larkin, and editor of the Philip Larkin Casebook (1997), read a selection of Larkin's work.

The Centre for Poetry and Poetics (Director, Prof. Stephen Regan) is a unique and important archive of materials relating to twentieth-century poetry. The Centre provides a focus for research in twentieth-century poetry and poetics and has important links with regional and community poetry activities around Basil Bunting (1900-1985), one of the most significant writers from the North-East. The Centre has developed close links at the regional level with northern writers' groups and other cultural organisations, and has international links with American and other overseas institutions. The Centre also continues to promote the practice of "live" poetry reading which Bunting championed.