This chapter will try to refer to the problematics of place, identity and belonging as it is evident in many poems from The North Ship (1945) and The Less Deceived (1955). The chapter will also refer to some poems which remained unpublished during his lifetime and were later included in The Complete Poems edited by Archie Burnett in 2012. It will focus on the way the so-called provincial Englishness was in crisis and how he developed a threatened sense of place in a time of rapid changes and compromises in the post-World War-II England. The images of socio-cultural discord coincided with a “not so happy” childhood in Coventry. Larkin was full of awe for his father, Sydney who was a domineering kind of person. The difference between an intellectual father and a submissive mother made the family space suffocating for the young Larkin. His idea of family as a claustrophobic and restricting space which thwarts the development of individualism rests upon the dichotomy between two contrasting spaces, constricting and free. The chapter is dedicated to a discussion of his representation of place as a kind of ‘lived experience’ in his early poems which is both a cultural construct and a landscape of the mind.