The “unpublished” Larkin poem that wasn’t
Last week it was Shakespeare. This week it’s the turn of a more modern poet, Philip Larkin, to be the subject of a grand but ultimately false discovery. On Monday,… Read more »
Dear Hull, you might be City of Culture 2017, but you’ve completely misread Larkin
Dear Hull, Congratulations on being named the UK’s next “City of Culture” for 2017. I know you’re thrilled, and so you should be. It really takes something to bounce back… Read more »
Behind the Booker scenes: the gaffes and the punch-ups
“There are many things I regret doing and being a judge for the Booker prize is one of them”. This is Paul Bailey, speaking about being a judge in 1982,… Read more »
When it comes to “complete” collections, when does more add up to less?
The issue of manipulating the unpublished work of dead writers has reared its head again — MobyLives last week noted the addition of scenes in the paperback release of David… Read more »
British government releases list of writers who refused to bow before the Queen
In 2003, J.G. Ballard famously rejected a CBE (Commander of the British Empire), one of the royal honors bestowed annually by the Queen on various luminaries, saying, “I might have been… Read more »