This collection brings together essays by established commentators on Larkin's work and by younger critics: from England, Northern Ireland, the USA, Canada, Belgium and Hungary. Individual essays examine Larkin's novels and poetry in the light of psychoanalytical, postmodern, post-colonial and Bakhtinian theories. Essays by: Ian Almond, James Booth, John Carey, Steve Clark, Barbara Everett, George Gilpin, Liz Hedgecock, Raphaël Ingelbein, Edna Longley, John Osborne, V. Penelope Pelizzon, István Rácz, Stephen Regan, M. W. Rowe and Terry Whalen.