Good job you weren't wearing your Prafab Sprout ones!

Dr Andrew Palmer exploring the connections and tensions between Ray Davies and Philip Larkin at our recent conference. You can view this, and other conference presentations by subscribing to our YouTube channel

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Rosie Millard Conference Welcome YouTube video by The Philip Larkin Society

President of The Philip Larkin Society, Rosie Millard, opens the second day of our amazing 2026 conference. Over the next few weeks we’ll be uploading most of the presentations. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to ensure that you don’t miss any of them. youtu.be/6M273cwajFQ?...

Still a few places left and concessionary places, first come, first served.

This article is in the latest issue of Record Collector....What, no Sunday Sessions by Philip Larkin? I feel a letter to the editor coming on! @plsoc.bsky.social

Celebrations of life outdoors – whether with our hands in the earth or listening to birdsong – Ten Poems about Allotments and Ten Poems about Blackbirds out today!

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I'd pay good money to hear that Joe Pasquale reading...even on this dreaded day!

Submissions - 1926 General Strike Special Issue “Not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the day”.

The Fig Tree have a call out for poems to commemorate the 1926 General Strike...
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'Larkin's evocation of the icy, claustrophobic, wartime town is heightened by flashbacks to the glowing summer ... Both seasons are vividly evoked.' (Carol Rumens' review of A Girl In Winter, The Guardian 2011).
Our online Book Club choice for 11 May meeting. All PLS members very welcome.

Hillsboro' Crew Steel City (Move on up) YouTube video by itstheeighties

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Me too, it has not been near a turntable for 25+years. It has Heaven 17 connections which is why I must've rescued it from a bargain bin in 86/87.

I hope this was playing in the dressing room?

Now if only that Tom Tom Club was the 12"....

Early bird 10% discount until midnight tomorrow with the code BRUSH.

The Fig Tree 2025 Anthology launch The Fig Tree Anthology 2025 will be launched at 2pm on Saturday, 11th April at the Unitarian Church, 60 Hall Gate, Doncaster, DN1 3PB. The event will feature readings by Ian Parks, Matthew Paul, Vi…

So pleased to have a poem in The Fig Tree's 2025 Anthology, and looking forward to reading at its launch on Saturday 11th April in Doncaster. Come along and hear some fine poetry...
Full details at crookedspirepress.com/the-fig-tree...

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Poetry collection submissions open! 1st April - 31st May brokensleepbooks.com/submissions

We are open for full length poetry collection submissions until 31st May.

A very small percentage of people who submit to Broken Sleep Books actually buy a book from us. If every submitter bought just 1 title, it would make a huge difference.

Guidelines: www.brokensleepbooks.com/submissions

Still a few places.
Early bird signup till April 10th: 10% off with the code BRUSH.

Surely a shaggy dog poem....

Got mine already...but I used to live in Leicester, they have good taste in poetry!

The Fig Tree - Women's Poetry Special Issue 2 with Featured Poet Maureen Jivani

The second Fig Tree Women's Poetry Special is out....with another range of fantastic poem...
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Guitaaars....!

A lovely comment about our recent conference;
'I had so many energising and illuminating conversations...it feels like a real community is building around these events.' Please put 16-17th March 2028 in your diaries and do get in touch if you have any ideas for speakers or topics.

Happy Christmas! We have our competition winners: www.candlestickpress.co.uk/competitions/

That's the best poem I'll read today...by a country mile!

Bildr’s thorp He ran from the farm like he was learning to slay,great grandfather’s hounds snouting his heelswith low battle howls, an invisible axe twirlingthrough grass downhill to the ditch. The…

Thank you to The Gentian for including my poem ‘Bildr’s thorp’ in their latest Myths and Legends issue:

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Looking forward to reading at this....

Brilliant 👍

Tempting...but you know what? I'll give it a week!

Go Giddy-Boy!