Philip Larkin: Love and Death in Hull

Philip Larkin was one of Britain's best-loved poets, with an ability to communicate his ideas in an accessible way, transforming ordinary situations into magnificent events - yet for a man who wrote so knowledgeably about emotion, he somehow made himself unlovable, with overriding themes of sorrow and death only serving to reinforce his image as a grumpy, pessimistic bachelor. Contributors including Martin Amis, AN Wilson, Andrew Motion and Larkin's companion Maeve Brennan help paint a picture of this most complicated writer