The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin Jane Clarke cloth-covered hardback book

cloth-covered hardback book

Horrex - whose poems found an enthusiastic readership via Carcanet's New Poetries series - unpicks the illusion that order upholds society and reveals the true ramshackle complexion of things

and a pair of singing blackbirds tenderly expose the secret to marital compatibility and compromise

where he began translating the poems in this book

full of humour and heart

The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin Jane Clarke cloth-covered hardback bookPhilip Larkin's second collection, The Less Deceived was published by The Marvell Press in 1955, and now appears for the first time in Faber covers. The eye can hardly pick them out From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and mane; Then one crops grass, and moves about The other seeming to look on And stands anonymous again. from 'At Grass'