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Extraordinary news. Scientists in Denmark have designed some kind of technological tool that can apparently predict how long you’ve got left to live. Tests have suggested that its predictions are 78 per cent accurate, which, when you stop to think about it, doesn’t sound all that amazing. But, given the astonishing speed of technological advancement in general these days, scientists are eventually bound to come up with a device that really can predict your date of death with nailed...

<strong>31 March 1973</strong>: Larkin talks about his approach to life and poetry as well as his efforts in editing the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse

He offers an uncensored picture of a damaged and unhappy sensibility – but leaves us with the possibility of hope.

The poets are not part of a new GCSE poetry anthology drawn up by an exam board.

On a visit to Hull, the Daily Mails Rob Crossan was impressed with the food scene and followed in the footsteps of poet Philip Larkin, a former local and the citys unofficial bard.

According to one of Philip Larkin’s most famous poems, sexual intercourse began in 1963 — which was, he noted, ‘rather late for me’.  As with much else in Larkin’s life however, this was not entirely truthful. Because by 1963 he had been enjoying sex for a good 18 years, with many, many women. He may have been a late starter — he was a virgin until he was 23 — but, once under way, the man who was to become one of our most celebrated poets adopted a sexual template of juggling two...

The poet, who died in 1985, was honoured with a posthumous statue at Hull Paragon Interchange railway station in 2010 Philip Larkin has been included on a secret list of major statues of concern over comments he made in private letters published years after his death. The poet, who died in 1985, was honoured with a posthumous statue at Hull Paragon Interchange railway station in 2010 - having moved to the city in 1955 where he worked as a librarian and penned works that earned him an offer of...