"Even when he was writing prose in his role as jazz critic, Philip Larkin was unable to stop himself being poetic. Peter J. King has produced a remix, a recomposition, of the poet's words, yet never losing sight of his personal enthusiasms, his dislike of musical modernism, and his nostalgia for times past, in a set of pithy observational pieces that shed new and different shards of light on their subjects."
Alyn Shipton
"Even when he was writing prose in his role as jazz critic, Philip Larkin was unable to stop himself being poetic. Peter J. King has produced a remix, a recomposition, of the poet's words, yet never losing sight of his personal enthusiasms, his dislike of musical modernism, and his nostalgia for times past, in a set of pithy observational pieces that shed new and different shards of light on their subjects."
Alyn Shipton