For their first episode together, recorded in 2017, Mark Ford and Seamus Perry look at the life and work of Philip Larkin ... I think the erotic is also crucial to Larkin’s work, as it is to Hardy’s.

This story appears in the April 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. If I were called in / To construct a religion / I should make use of water, wrote the English poet Philip Larkin in 1954 ...