The 2010 festival was involved in the launch of a CD by a number of festival performers as part of the Larkin 25 project, which marked the 25th anniversary of the death of the poet Philip Larkin.
The first issue was 32 pages and included the work of Richmond Lattimore, May Swenson, Philip Larkin, James Wright, and William Stafford.
Philip II of Spain | Philip K. Dick | John Philip Sousa | Philip II | Philip Roth | Philip IV of Spain | Philip II of Macedon | Philip | Philip Bradbourn | Philip Catherine | Prince Philip | Philip V of Spain | Philip Pullman | Philip Sheridan | Philip Larkin | Philip IV of France | Philip the Good | Philip Sidney | Philip Marlowe | Philip IV | Philip III of Spain | Philip Hammond | Philip Webb | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Philip the Apostle | Philip Ruddock | Philip Massinger | Philip I of Castile | Philip Guston | Philip Doddridge |
In all over $1 million was raised from alumni supporters, whereupon some 16 lavishly produced and extravagantly priced issues were published, with the participation of such contributors as E. M. Cioran, Philip Larkin, Lewis Lapham, Henri Peyre, G. S. Fraser, Roy Fuller, Martin Seymour-Smith, Ernst Gombrich, A. L. Rowse, Boris Goldovsky, Annie Dillard, William F. Buckley, Jr.
Much of Davie's poetry has been compared to that of the traditionalist Philip Larkin, but other works are more influenced by Ezra Pound.
The Moving Toyshop (1946) was dedicated to Crispin's great friend and fellow admirer of the work of John Dickson Carr, Philip Larkin.
He does not seem to have been acquainted with somewhat junior but contemporary Oxford poets such as Sidney Keyes, Drummond Allison, John Heath-Stubbs, Philip Larkin, etc. who would make names for themselves.
He attended the Lester B. Pearson United World College in Victoria, B.C., Canada, the University of Hull where he was awarded the Philip Larkin Prize, and the University of Edinburgh where he completed his doctoral studies in African and Indian Literature.
Among those who have lived and worked in the local area are the author of Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien, also Iris Murdoch, T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), Philip Pullman, Crime writers PD James and Colin Dexter (author of the Inspector Morse series), the poet Philip Larkin, and more recently novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan (Atonement).
In recent decades, the TLS has included essays, reviews and poems by John Ashbery, Italo Calvino, Patricia Highsmith, Milan Kundera, Philip Larkin, Mario Vargas Llosa, Joseph Brodsky, Gore Vidal, Orhan Pamuk, Geoffrey Hill, and Seamus Heaney, among others.