The North Ship

The North Ship

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author = Philip Larkin
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Poetry
publisher = Fortune Press and reissued by Faber and Faber
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english_release_date =1945
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"The North Ship" is a collection of poems by Philip Larkin (1922-1985), and was published in 1945 by Reginald A. Caton's Fortune Press. It was reissued in 1966 by Faber and Faber Limited. In the 1945 version there are 31 items, numbered with Roman numerals. The last of these, "The North Ship" is a set of five poems tracking a ship's northward progress. Of the 30 single poems, only seven have titles. Some of the poems were composed while Larkin was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, but the bulk were written in the period 1943 to 1944 when he was running the public library in Wellington, Shropshire and writing his second novel A Girl in Winter.

In the 1966 reissue an extra poem, "Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair" was added at the end. This edition is still in print.

"The North Ship" constitutes the first part of the 2003 edition of Larkin's Collected Poems

Content

The book contains 32 poems:
*Ellipsis (...) indicates first line of an untitled poem

ee also

*List of poems by Philip Larkin – a complete list of all the known poems, both published and unpublished, and their date of composition


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