The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin Danez Smith Poe was also a poet

Poe was also a poet and - as his stories of mesmerism and time travel prove - a pioneer of science fiction

Ian Duhig’s effortlessly fascinating and endlessly quotable verse has had a shaping influence on UK poetry for more than thirty years

The poems about girlhood experiences are daringly original

His first four collections were gathered in the Collected Earlier Poems

Whatever the shape of your struggle

The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin Danez Smith Poe was also a poetPhilip 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'